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An advocacy group has proposed four options for reforming Myanmar’s tangle of criminal defamation clauses, which are being used ever more frequently under the National League for Democracy government.
In April 2019, Ma Su Yadanar Myint took part in a traditional musical theatre performance (...)
Myanmar’s second national election since its transition from military rule, scheduled for 8 November 2020, is critical for the young democracy. In Rakhine state, an inclusive and fair election matters for preventing any further alienation among a people already beset with deep doubts about the (...)
People in Myanmar’s troubled western state are battling a surge in coronavirus in the midst of escalating conflict.
Yangon, Myanmar – On the night of September 3, Thar Hla* was restless, and it was not just because he was sharing a concrete floor with approximately 70 people. “After hearing loud (...)
Rakhine State, historically known as Arakan, represents the post-colonial failures of Myanmar in microcosm: ethnic conflict, political impasse, militarisation, economic neglect and the marginalisation of local peoples. During the past decade, many of these challenges have gathered a new (...)
As the government meets to design a “roadmap” for developing the new national land law, TNI looks at how the situation has changed since the development of the National Land Use policy a few years ago and reflects on the issues at stake for millions of people across the country with rights to (...)
In the early 21st century, we see that a good part of the world is turning its back on diversity – and this goes beyond Southeast Asia. We see this in Europe, in India, and in the Americas. This trend manifests as a poisonous concoction of intolerance, ethno-nationalism, anti-immigrant (...)
A Memorandum of Understanding to establish the China Myanmar Economic Corridor (CMEC) was signed by the governments of Myanmar and China in September 2018. The CMEC forms part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a 21st century reimagining of the ancient Silk Road, the network of land and (...)
The right to land for all peoples is essential for peace, democracy and development.
Farmers working on land in Pinlaung township in Shan State / Photo credit Tom Kramer
The recently adopted amendment by parliament to the 2012 Vacant, Fallow and Virgin Lands Management Law (VFV Law) has (...)
Land rights of peoples must be protected to improve prospects for peace.
Farmers working in the northern Shan State / Photo credit Jason Gelbort
The Government of Myanmar’s approach to land policy risks increasing land conflicts and exacerbating current challenges in formal peace negotiations. (...)
The necessity of peace by political means, inclusive of all nationalities and faiths within the Union.
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Anti-war protest for peace by residents, Myitkyina. / Photo credit Kachinland News
A church that doesn’t provoke any crises, a gospel that doesn’t unsettle, a word of God (...)
Karen people in Tanintharyi region fear project to protect 800,000-acre area will cut them off from ancestral lands
A British conservation charity has become embroiled in a row with villagers displaced by civil war in Myanmar over plans to protect pristine forests housing wild Asian elephants, (...)
Violation of the press freedom in Myanmar: ARTICLE 19’s statement regarding the decision by a Yangon court to charge Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo who helped expose a massacre of Rohingya civilians.
The decision by a Yangon court to formally charge Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, Reuters (...)
A Land at the Crossroads in Myanmar
Kayah State, historically known as “Karenni State”, is an example of the reform dilemmas that the ethnic nationality peoples in Myanmar face today. Although the country’s smallest state, it reflects many of the challenges in peace-building and socio-political (...)
Can Myanmar take a path to sustainable development that avoids the pitfalls of the orthodox development paradigm? This report argues that this is not only necessary but possible.
Before elucidating this alternative paradigm, the report discusses Myanmar’s economic past and where it’s headed (...)
After almost seventy years of civil war and armed con ict the peace process is considered to be the centerpiece of a future peaceful coexistence of the various ethnic groups in Myanmar. Peace negotiations under the former Thein Sein government led to the so called Nationwide Cease re Agreement (...)
Critics of Ashin Wirathu and his denim-clad disciples say the monk incites racial violence against Rohingya refugees. He claims he is merely protecting his people. Myanmar army allegedly left Rohingya refugees with bullet wounds and burns.
“Aung San Suu Kyii would like to help the Bengali, but (...)
Ultra-nationalist Buddhist group Ma Ba Tha has been spreading anti-Muslim rhetoric across Myanmar for years. Cosmopolitan Mandalay is at the heart of this hostility – which many fear is here to stay.
In a cluttered room in a monastery in Mandalay, Myanmar’s second city, a group of crimson-robed (...)
Despite its natural resources, Rakhine is one of Myanmar’s poorest states – some 78 per cent of the population live below the poverty line, nearly double the national average.
Battered by global outrage over an army crackdown on Rohingya Muslims, Myanmar has found comfort in an old friend – (...)
Myanmar’s National Land Use Policy promises to make profound changes to the current economic, social, and political-institutional landscape. This is an important and bold step, but its impact will depend on how it addresses the often “messy” details of actual land based social relations. (...)
This month’s tragic anti-Muslim violence in Mandalay has again revealed that dark forces are alive and well in Myanmar. The violence left two dead and many injured, causing damage to property and generating a climate of fear in the country’s cultural and historic capital.
In the aftermath of the (...)
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