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Burma Organisations Worldwide

Burma Organisations Worldwide


Exiled Government



Human Rights



News and Information



Environment

  • Burma Rivers Network
  • EarthRights International
    EarthRights International's Burma Project collects on-the-ground information about the human rights and environmental situation in Burma.
  • Karen Rivers Watch
  • Living River Siam
    Works to support local community rights to their rivers, and to oppose threats to rivers and river ecosystems in Thailand, the Mekong, and Salween River Basins, such as large dams and water diversion projects.
  • Project Maje
  • Salween watch
    A coalition of organizations and NGOs that work on Burma-related and environmental issues. It was set up with the primary aim of preventing the building of harmful hydroelectric power dams on the Salween River.
  • Shwe Gas Movement
    A campaign site documenting the Shwe Gas project.
Business and Economy
  • Association for Sustainable and Responsible Investment in Asia
    A statement on business involvement in Burma by institutional investors that collectively have £400 billion in funds under management.
  • Burma Economic Watch
    A periodical that aims to provide up-to-date and reliable data , analysis and commentary on the economy of Burma.
  • Business and Human Rights Resource Centre
    Aims to track the positive and negative impacts of over 4000 companies worldwide
  • Global Unions: Companies linked to Burma
    A database compiled by the ITUC and the Global Union Federations, based on publicly available information indicating that companies have business links with Burma.
  • Salween watch
    A coalition of organizations and NGOs that work on Burma-related and environmental issues. It was set up with the primary aim of preventing the building of harmful hydroelectric power dams on the Salween River.
  • SEEcompanies.com
    A forum in which businesses set out their social, environmental and ethical (SEE)
  • Shwe Gas Movement
    A campaign site documenting the Shwe Gas project.


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Cultural and Historical

Ethnic Groups

    Chin
  • Chin Forum
    The Chin Forum provides research and reports to assist the Chin peoples' struggle for freedom and democracy.
  • Chin Human Rights Organization
    Chin Human Rights Organization is working to protect and promote the rights of the Chin people.
  • Chin National Front (CNF)
    The Chin National Front (CNF) was formed on 20 March, 1988, dedicated to securing the self-determination of the Chin people, to restore democracy, and to establish federal Union of Burma.
  • Kuki Forum (KIF)
    Kuki Forum (KIF)
    Kachin
  • Kachin News
    Kachin News
  • Kachin Post
    The Kachin Post is an independent media organization and it stands for Kachin National interest in the principles of democracy and human rights.
  • Kachin Women’s Association Thailand
    The empowerment and advancement of Kachin women in order to improve the lives of women and children in Kachin society.
    Karen
  • Karen National Union
    The Karen National Union is the leading political organisation representing the aspirations of the Karen people.
  • Phan Foundation
    Founded in memory of Padoh Mahn Sha, the General Secretary of the Karen National Union. Has four main objectives: to alleviate poverty, to provide education, to promote human rights and to protect Karen culture.
  • Karen Women Organisation
    A community-based organisation of Karen women working in development and relief in the refugee camps on the Thai border and with IDPs (Internally Displaced Persons) and women inside Burma.
  • Kawthoolei
    Provide contemporary news, views and perspectives by and about the Karen people.
  • Drum Publications
    Provides educational material in Burmese, English and Karen. Drum Publication Group is a small independent community based organization dedicated to promoting education and preserving the cultures of the peoples of Burma.
  • Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG)
    The Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG) is a small and independent group documenting the human rights situation in rural Burma.
    Karenni
  • Karenni Students Union (KSU)
    Karenni Students Union (KSU)
  • Karenni Homeland
    Karenni Homeland
    Mon
  • Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM)
    Founded by pro-democracy students from the 1988 uprising and more recent activists and Mon community leaders and youths HURFOM's main aim is for the restoration of democracy, human rights and genuine peace in Burma.
  • Kaowao Newsgroup
    Activists and journalists committed to addressing pressing issues of Burma and its indigenous heritage formed the Kaowao Newsgroup in November 2001.
    Rohingya
  • Arakan Rohingya National Organization
    Arakan Rohingya National Organization (ARNO)
  • Burmese Rohingya Organisation
    Burmese Rohingya Organisation (BROUK)
  • Rohingya Burma’s Forgotten Minority
    A report by Refugees International
  • Rohingyas, the Forgotten People
    An ABC documentary
  • The Rohingya Minority
    A report by Amnesty International (2004)
    Shan
  • Shan Women’s Action Network (SWAN)
    A network of Shan women active in Shan State and Thailand. It was founded on 28 March 1999. Most SWANs work on voluntary basis.
  • Shan Herald Agency for News
    Shan Herald Agency for News


Women

  • Burmese Women’s Union
    Burmese Women's Union (BWU) work for the rights of women, to increase women's participation in the Burmese political arena and to provide much-needed support for women in the refugee camps along the borders of Burma.
  • Karenni National Women’s Organization
    KNWO is a community-based organization that looks after the wellbeing of disadvantaged Karenni people caught in armed conflict.
  • WEAVE - Women’s Education for Advancement and Empowerment
  • Women’s League of Burma
    Aims to work for women's empowerment and advancement of the status of women, and to work for the increased participation of women in all spheres of society in the democracy movement, and in peace and national reconciliation processes through capacity building, advocacy, research and documentation.
  • Women’s League of Chinland
    Focuses on building capacity of Chin Women through workshops, training programs, safe houses and income generation of. Promotes women participation in politics through lobbying and advocacy campaigns regionally and internationally.

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Trade Unions

Burmese Military Regime



Documentaries and Videos

  • BeCause Foundation
    BeCause Foundation drives social change through the powerful fusion of documentary filmmaking and related strategic programs.
  • Burma Campaign UK’s YouTube channel.
    Watch the best Burma videos from across the web at Burma Campaign UK's YouTube channel.
  • Burma Diaspora
    Video footage of the Karen and the situation in Eastern Burma.
  • Burma VJ
    Burma VJ is a documentary that traces the 2007 uprising in Burma by telling the story of the undercover video journalists (VJs) that recorded the uprising and the subsequent brutal crackdown.
  • Eyes to Burma
    About Burma crisis and the problems resulting from the crisis.
  • Inside Burma - Land of Fear
    Information on the documentary by John Pilger
  • Inside Burma - Land of Fear
    Watch the video on Google Video
  • Kalama Sutta
    A documentary in which a trip to Burma is transformed into a meditation on human rights and media.
  • Moving to Mars
    Moving to Mars follows two refugee families from Burma over the course of a year that will change their lives completely.
  • The Hub, by Witness.
    The web's first video site promoting Human Rights. Through the Hub, individuals, organizations, networks and groups around the world are able to bring their human rights stories and campaigns to global attention and to mobilize action to protect and promote human rights.