Ethnic Activists ‘Prefer Aung San’s Promise of Equal Rights’ Over New Currency
The Central Bank of Myanmar officially issued a new 1,000 kyat note featuring an image of the late Gen Aung San on January 7....
JICM: Eight-point agenda agreement a positive restart of stalled peace process?
On January 8, the government met with all 10 nationwide ceasefire agreement-signatories-ethnic armed organizations (NCA-S-EAO) at the Joint Implementation Coordination Meeting (JICM) in Naypyitaw. The...
Peace Process and Myanmar Sustainable Development Plan
As the restarting of nationwide ceasefire agreement (NCA)-based peace process gears to restart after more than a year of standstill, it is important to...
Government’s “total peace” in 2020 realizable?
The opinion piece of January 1, 2020 The Global New Light of Myanmar wrote that "Our new year resolution should be “total peace” in...
KAREN NEW YEAR MESSAGE: KNU Chairman outlined ethnic rights of self-determination
On 26 December 2019 Karen New Year Day, Karen National Union (KNU) Chairman Saw Mutu Say Poe in his felicitation letter to all Karen...
GAMBIA VERSUS MYANMAR: International Court of Justice Blues
The three-day International Court of Justice (ICJ) hearing from December 10 to 12 - in the case concerning Application of the Convention on the...
Shan Orgs Support Legal Action Against Burma at ICJ
Seventeen Shan civil society and community-based organizations spoke out this week in support of charges brought by Gambia against the Burmese state at the...
ETHNIC YEARLY ROUND-UP : Ethnic states in 2019
The Kachin, Shan and Arakan States continued to be bogged down in armed conflict, while Karen State also saw skirmishes due to Tatmadaw (Myanmar...
Amnesty International report revealed civilian sufferings caused by ethnic conflict
While Myanmar is faced with it biggest woe of having to appear before the International Court of Justice on charges of state-sponsored genocide scheduled...
SHOWDOWN IN INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE: Sovereignty versus human rights?
Now that the State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi has officially said that she will lead the legal team to confront the genocide accusation...
