The report is based on the Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children’s May 2008 visit to the Thailand-Burma border. The purpose of the assessment was to look at the educational needs of young people from Burma living in refugee...
Summary: This report presents an in-depth picture of children's lives in rural eastern Burma. With over 160 interviews with children, their families and communities, this report draws on personal testimony of villagers in Karen State. While there...
Thousands of children under the age of 18 currently participate in armed conflicts in at least 18 countries worldwide, as part of government armies, paramilitaries, and armed opposition groups. Since 1994, Human Rights Watch has reported on the use...
[13 December 2007] - Discrimination threatens lives in emergencies, and governments and aid agencies should pay more attention to the needs of vulnerable groups who suffer most in disasters, the Red Cross said in a report released on Thursday....
This report sets out the findings of the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, in a recent mission following a State crackdown on peaceful demonstrators. During this period (26 - 29...
[NEW YORK, 7 December 2007] – UN Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, Ms. Coomaraswamy, has presented the reports of the Secretary General on the situation of Children and Armed Conflict in Burundi and Myanmar to...
[NEW YORK, le 31 octobre 2007]- Confronté à une pénurie d’effectifs militaires, le gouvernement birman recrute de force au sein de ses forces armées un grand nombre d’enfants, dont certains n’ont pas...
[NEW YORK, 31 October 2007] – Facing a military staffing crisis, the Burmese government is forcibly recruiting many children, some as young as age 10, into its armed forces, Human Rights Watch said in a new report.Burmese military recruiters...
[17 October 2007] - More and more States worldwide are reforming their laws to prohibit all corporal punishment of children, including in their homes. A new report by the Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children analyses the...
[5 October 2007] - Last week, from the top floors of the luxury towers near Sule Pagoda, we watched hundreds of soldiers descend from their trucks, form lines and start shooting. Within ten minutes, they had cleared a perimeter around the pagoda....
