The Secretary of State’s Human Rights Defender Award recognizes eight individuals who have demonstrated leadership and courage promoting human rights and fundamental freedoms around the world. The Award celebrates courageous individuals who press every day for respect for the human rights of all people. Mang Hre Lian has spent his life working in different capacities to promote human
CHRO is pleased to present a collection news coverage of our work by local, national, regional and international news media organizations, in reverse chronological order, since 2021 military coup on the human rights and humanitarian situation in Chin State and Burma.
The photojournalist Alex McBride has been embedded with rebel forces in Chin state, Myanmar, during a critical moment for the country, as the regime assaults the area in a worrying echo of the Rohingya genocide
500 new infantry troops are being deployed to Chin State as SAC junta prepares for a major offensive against Chin resistance forces. Fighting have erupted in different parts of Chin State, including in Hakha town where LIB266 have fired rockets into civilian neighborhoods indiscriminately. Hundreds have fled their homes and villages in southern Chin State following the brutal killing...
Junta soldiers caught in the acts of committing arson in Thantlang on November 26, 2021. The soldiers are seen running around the street torching multiple houses in Seikpyoye Ward of Thanglang, in the neighborhood adjacent to where they are comping at the Natala School compound (building rows above the street
One of the last persons to leave Thantlang as it was burning on October 29 describes what he saw on the day more than 190 houses in Thantlang, a town of over 10,000 residents, were burned to the ground. (I remained in Thantlang because I needed to keep my mother company as she refused
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