Bangkok: India’s 214-million-dollar infrastructure project in western Myanmar should have environmental impact studies before proceeding, environmental activists said Tuesday. “We anticipate that this is going to become a major illegal route for wildlife trade,” said Kashmira Kakati, an Indian biologist who conducted a 2011 environmental impact study on part of the project. The Kaladan project, financed

By Zin Linn Jun 11, 2013 9:10PM UTC An alliance of civil-society organizations launched a report which calls for safeguards against human rights violations and accountability for all stakeholders during the implementation of the Kaladan Project. The report − One cannot step into the same river twice: making the Kaladan Project people-centered – was released

Naresh Mitra, TNN Jun 12, 2013, 12.28AM IST GUWAHATI: Pressure groups in the northeast and Myanmar have asked India and its neighbour to make the Kaladan multi-modal transit transport (KMMTT) project “people-centric” by ensuring that local communities stand to benefit in both the countries. The multi-million dollar project, initiated by India under the Look East

Thomson Reuters Foundation – Tue, 11 Jun 2013 BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Human rights groups issued a report on Tuesday criticising a $214 million Indian infrastructure project in western Myanmar as being secretive, excluding local people and threatening the environment and livelihoods of 1.2 million people along its route. There has been little or

For half a century a single precious copy of a textbook kept the language of Myanmar’s Shan people alive for students, forced to learn in the shadows under a repressive junta. Now with a reformist government reaching out to armed rebel groups after decades of civil war, calls are growing to reinstate ethnic language teaching

Christian Chin from western Burma are denied religious freedom and face coercion to convert to Buddhism as a result of state policy, according to a new report The Chin Human Rights Organization (CHRO) released Threats to Our Existence: Persecution of Ethnic Chin Christians in Burma on Wednesday which exposes a decades-long pattern of religious freedom

2012-09-05 Burma’s government is violating the religious rights of the ethnic group, according to a new report. RFA Some 90 percent of ethnic Chin consider themselves Christians. Christians among the Chin ethnic group in western Burma are facing religious persecution as they are coerced into converting to Buddhism as part of a government drive to