Shirley Seng, Mary Labang, and Nan Pyung of the Kachin Womens Association, photographed by Platon and interviewed by Human Rights Watch. in the whole Union of Burma. The people have become very poor.

On Monday, a U.N. Fact-Finding Mission called for top Myanmar military officials to be prosecuted for genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. Their 18-month long investigation focused not ...

The Tamadaw, the military of Myanmar, has been attacking the ethnic minority Kachin people in what some observers are calling a genocide. Although much attention has been given to the ethnic Rohingya, ...

BANGKOK — Authorities in China and Myanmar are failing to stop the brutal trafficking of young women, often teenagers, from the conflict-ridden Kachin region for sexual slavery in China, according to ...

The Burma Army and government-backed militias are enabling a drug crisis in Kachin State, according to the Kachin Women’s Association Thailand (KWAT). “Where the Burma Army has seized former Kachin ...

While the world’s attention has focused on the horror unleashed against the Rohingya population in Myanmar’s West, an old war in the country’s North has taken on a new ferocity, forcing thousands to ...

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A study released Thursday by Johns Hopkins estimates there are over 7,400 women in forced marriages in four districts in Myanmar and one Chinese Prefecture. Research led by the Johns ...

JE YANG, Myanmar – Every afternoon, dozens of teenage girls at the school for displaced children line up on the grounds, dressed in white uniforms with belts of various colors: yellow, blue, white.

KACHIN STATE, Myanmar – Since the armed conflict in northern Myanmar’s Kachin State intensified in December, nearly 7,000 people have fled the area, often amid shelling and airstrikes. Among the ...

She had just finished describing how she had been raped by two men, dressed as policemen, when more police showed up. These police weren’t wearing uniforms, but everyone in the village in Burma’s ...

While the world’s attention has focused on the horror unleashed against the Rohingya population in Myanmar’s West, an old war in the country’s North has taken on a new ferocity, forcing thousands to ...