Nov 20, 2023 | DFF, Statements
A statement calling on the United Nations to appoint a special rapporteur on democracy has been signed by more than 80 civil society organizations, networks, think tanks and institutions as well as numerous individuals from across the world united by their commitment to human rights and democracy.
According to the document, which was released today and is endorsed by ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR), “democracy is threatened and authoritarianism is on the rise”. In this situation, the UN “needs to do more to strengthen human rights and democracy”, the statement says. The new rapporteur position would be created by the UN’s Human Rights Council in Geneva and “mandated to investigate the state of democracy around the world.”
The joint appeal is made ahead of the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that is coming up on 10 December 2023. Like-minded organizations, policy-makers and individuals are invited to sign on.
- “The global trend of democratic decline is a serious concern for parliamentarians everywhere, but particularly in Southeast Asia, where young democracies across the region risk backsliding into authoritarianism. We urge the UN to give this issue the serious attention it deserves, starting with the appointment of a Special Rapporteur,” said APHR Board Member and Malaysian Member of Parliament Wong Chen.
- “In a world facing democratic challenges, Democracy International supports the call for a UN Special Rapporteur on Democracy. Despite the evolving threats, this mandate, rooted in UN principles, symbolizes our optimism for a future where strengthened democratic values prevail”, said Eric Bjornlund, CEO and President, Democracy International.
- “Democracy is a human right and human rights depend on democracy. The UN can no longer look the other way while this right is being denied, undermined and weakened in many countries around the world. A UN rapporteur on democracy is urgently needed”, said Andreas Bummel, Executive Director, Democracy Without Borders.
- “In a world where threats to democracy and fundamental freedoms undermine essential human rights, we must continue to support, at the highest levels, those working on the front lines and behind the scenes working on the intersection of human rights and democracy. A UN Special Rapporteur on Democracy will help keep these issues at the forefront and signal to naysayers that democratic principles and practices offer the best conditions for peace and prosperity”, said Dr Ann Hudock, President and CEO, Counterpart International.
- “Threats to democratic principles and institutions are a global issue. The establishment of a UN Special Rapporteur on Democracy will support our legislative work, especially when drafting evidence-based legislation and policies that promote integrity in political speech, transparency in government and the protection of fundamental human rights”, said Naveed Qamar, Member of Parliament from Pakistan and President of Parliamentarians for Global Action.
- “Today more than ever, global citizens and their civil society require focused tools, actions, and actors to effectively counter democratic regression. A UN rapporteur dedicated to this purpose could provide substantial assistance”, said Gina Romero, Executive Director, Red Latinoamericana y del Caribe por la Democracia, the platform for pro-democracy groups in Latin-America and the Caribbean.
- “In a time when democracy is challenged by autocracies and undermined in many democracies, the proposal of a UN rapporteur on democracy deserves urgent and serious consideration. It is fully endorsed by the V-Dem project and its Steering Committee”, said political scientist Staffan Lindberg, Director, Varieties of Democracy Institute (V-Dem) at the University of Gothenburg.
- “A robust and healthy civic space forms the cornerstone of accountable and responsive democratic governance. Democracy cannot exist without the protection and promotion of civic space, and a democratic society offers the best conditions for guaranteeing an enabling environment. The mandate of a UN rapporteur on democracy is key to ensuring that civil society and civic space remain at the heart of democracy”, said Sigrid Lipott, UN Advisor in Geneva of CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation.
- “People believe in democracy. But their hopes are being crushed as states fail to deliver and trample on the rules that protect us. At a time of crisis and contested narratives, the UN must use every possible tool to empower people: a Special Rapporteur on Democracy would be a good start”, said Natalie Samarasinghe, Global Director of Advocacy, Open Society Foundations.
- “Democracy is a fundamental human right that cannot be taken for granted in any corner of the world. In recent years, we have seen backsliding, erosion, and authoritarian encroachment that democracy champions have bravely stood against across the globe. They must not stand alone. The UN Special Rapporteur system is an invaluable tool for advancing human rights. It is time that this powerful mechanism be deployed in support of democracy,” said Rebecca A. Shoot, Executive Director, Citizens for Global Solutions
- “At a time when democracy is at threat around the world and authoritarianism is on the rise, the call for the establishment of a UN Special Rapporteur on Democracy has never been more timely. I therefore support this effort and hope that UN member states can consider doing so too”, said Annika Silva‑Leander, Permanent Observer to the United Nations, International IDEA.
- “These days we live through a dark period of spreading authoritarianism. We believe a UN rapporteur on democracy will brighten the way to a better world for democracy and human rights”, said Soonsuk Won, Chairperson, The May 18 Foundation, based in Gwangju, South Korea.
The statement points out that the new mandate can be based on UN resolutions that identify and support democratic principles. This includes the “central democratic principle” that “public authority must derive from the will of the people” which is expressed in Article 21 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
According to the document, the proposed UN Special Rapporteur on Democracy, assisted by an independent advisory board, would “examine challenges and opportunities related to the realization of democracy”. This would include, among other things, looking into “constitutional and institutional arrangements such as checks and balances; effectiveness of parliaments; free, fair and competitive elections and election environments; political participation including of minorities and women; direct and deliberative mechanisms; as well as civic space and freedoms.”
The new mandate would “go beyond and complement” existing mandates operating under the Human Rights Council. The statement asks “all governments that are committed to democracy” to support its establishment.
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Apr 18, 2023 | DFF, Open Letters
To: The Member States of the United Nations Security Council
CC: The United Nations Secretary-General
17 April 2023
Open Letter: The United Nations Security Council’s meeting on Myanmar must lead to firm measures against the junta
Your Excellencies,
We, the undersigned 546 Myanmar, regional and international civil society organizations (CSOs), welcome the United Kingdom’s request for an urgent Security Council discussion on Myanmar to address the illegal military junta’s worst civilian massacre since its failed coup, as well as the junta’s categorical refusal to comply with Security Council Resolution 2669 on Myanmar (December 2022). This “Any Other Business” discussion on 13 April must be followed by a dedicated Council meeting on the situation in Myanmar that leads to punitive measures against the junta under Chapter VII of the UN Charter.
On Tuesday 11 April 2023, the illegal military junta in Myanmar launched an aerial attack on a civilian gathering of around 300 people in Pa Zi Gyi Village, Kanbalu Township, Sagaing Region. At least 168 people were killed, including 24 women and 40 children. During the attack, a junta’s fighter jet flew over the village in the morning and dropped two bombs on the gathering. It was followed by a junta helicopter gunship that then opened fire on the crowd. Some of the victims’ bodies were so badly maimed they could not be identified. A second attack on the same location was launched by the junta in the evening, with four more bombs dropped, while victims’ bodies were still being retrieved.
The junta’s actions are a flagrant violation of UN Security Council Resolution 2669, which demanded “an immediate end to all forms of violence throughout the country” (OP1). Yet, since the Security Council adopted the Resolution in December 2022, the military junta has only escalated its campaign of terror and violence against the people of Myanmar.
The airstrike on Pa Zi Gyi Village came just one day after junta airstrikes in Va and Waibula Villages of Falam Township in Chin State, which killed nine civilians and destroyed homes and schools. Throughout March 2023, the junta’s so-called “Ogre Column” has carried out a series of raids on villages in southern Sagaing Region, massacring more than 30 people, including children, and decapitating and dismembering victims’ bodies. On 11 March, junta forces killed 29 civilians, including three monks, at a monastery in Pinlaung Township, Shan State. On 14 and 16 February 2023, the junta’s jet fighters dropped bombs in Mutraw District, Karen State, destroying two rice warehouses and seven schools.
Last week, the UN Human Rights Council adopted Resolution on Myanmar (A/HRC/52/32) by consensus that condemned the junta’s deliberate, widespread, indiscriminate and disproportionate use of force against civilians. The resolution referred directly to the junta’s airstrike against a school in Let Yet Kone Village, Sagaing Region in September 2022 that killed 11 children, and its airstrike one month later targeting a concert in Hpakant, Kachin State, that killed more than 60 people. The Human Rights Council Resolution demanded that the junta immediately cease all air strikes. The junta responded with the April 11 attack on Pa Zi Gyi Village.
At the same time as launching ground and increasing aerial attacks on civilians in many states and regions where the people’s resistance movement has taken strongholds, the junta is deliberately forcibly displacing people and cutting off humanitarian access to vast parts of the country. According to the most recent figures from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), 1.8 million people are now displaced inside Myanmar, but this number of displacements is likely higher. The junta is deliberately fuelling a nationwide humanitarian emergency to advance its political and military agenda.
Excellencies, the military junta has no regard for the lives of the Myanmar people, no regard for the rule of law, and no regard for international peace and security. The junta will not respond to words, only to action. Therefore, we call on the UN Security Council to adopt firm measures under Chapter VII of the UN Charter to enforce the military junta’s compliance with Resolution 2669. Those measures should include targeted economic sanctions against the military junta, a comprehensive arms embargo including on aviation fuel, and referral of the situation in Myanmar to the International Criminal Court or the establishment of an ad hoc tribunal.
Resolution 2669 also calls for “concrete and immediate actions, noting the military’s commitments to ASEAN Leaders, to effectively and fully implement ASEAN’s Five Point Consensus” (OP6). But there will be no progress made towards the implementation of the Five Point Consensus while the junta’s violence continues and its use of airstrikes against civilians increases. If the Security Council does not act now, we fear the crisis in Myanmar will rapidly reach the point of no return.
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Signed by 546 civil society organizations, including 248 CSOs who have chosen to not disclose their name.
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Sep 25, 2022 | DFF, Statements
NEW YORK – A delegation of parliamentarians from Southeast Asia and Europe urged officials at the United Nations, U.S. State Department, and U.S. Congress to support the pro-democracy movement in Myanmar in its struggle against the brutal military junta established by Senior General Min Aung Hlaing after the illegal coup on 1 February 2021.
The delegation traveled to New York and Washington, D.C., and presented to a variety of stakeholders the preliminary findings and recommendations of the International Parliamentary Inquiry (IPI) into the global response to the crisis in Myanmar, organized by ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR).
The delegation included Heidi Hautala, Vice President of the European Parliament and Chairperson of the IPI; Charles Santiago, Malaysian MP and Chairperson of APHR; and APHR Board Members Mercy Chriesty Barends, member of the Indonesian House of Representatives, U Shwe Maung, former Myanmar Member of Parliament, and Tom Villarin, former Congressman from the Philippines.
“We have impressed upon the stakeholders we have met the necessity for governments committed to supporting democracy in Myanmar to acknowledge the National Unity Government (NUG) as the legitimate authority in the country, increase and coordinate pressure on the junta, launch initiatives of capacity building for the NUG and other pro-democracy forces, and scale up humanitarian aid channeled it through civil society organizations,” said Charles Santiago.
The APHR-IPI delegation held meetings with the Acting UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ilze Brands Kehris, as well as officials from the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCR). In New York, the delegation also took part in a meeting hosted by the Malaysian Foreign Minister, Dato Sri Saifuddin Abdullah, with several members of the NUG.
In Washington, the delegation met with members of Congress, including Representative Ilhan Omar, also a member of the IPI, as well as officials from the State Department.
“The United States has an important role to play in exerting pressure on the junta and supporting the pro-democracy forces. We called for the imposition of sanctions on the Myanmar Oil and Gas Enterprise (MOGE), one of the main sources of funding for the Myanmar military, as the European Union has already done. We believe that those governments and international institutions that claim to support democracy in Myanmar should cut the flow of funds to the junta and do so in a coordinated and consistent manner,” said Heidi Hautala.
As the Myanmar military continues to engage in acts which the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has said may amount to “crimes against humanity and war crimes.” It is throwing the country into chaos, and the international community’s response has fallen woefully short, despite repeated expressions of concern.
In order to analyze this failure and offer solutions to the impasse, APHR decided to launch the IPI in June. The IPI has held a total of six public hearings, as well as two special and three confidential hearings, with experts, diplomats, politicians, and activists from Myanmar and other countries. IPI committee members also conducted a fact-finding mission to the Thai-Myanmar border, where they met with over dozen civil society organizations and other stakeholders. The IPI will release a report with its full findings and recommendations in early November.
Sep 23, 2022 | DFF, Statements
Letter to the UN Secretary-General
H.E. Mr. António Guterres
United Nations Secretary-General
United Nations Secretariat
42nd Street,
New York, NY 10017
23 September 2022
Re: UN agencies, funds, programmes and other entities engagement with the military junta
UN entities must stop legitimizing the Myanmar military junta and instead present letters of appointment, sign letters of agreement and MoUs with the legitimate government of Myanmar, the National Unity Government, and ethnic revolutionary organizations
Your Excellency,
We, the undersigned 638 civil society organizations (CSOs), condemn in the strongest terms the recent public signing of new agreements and presenting of letters of appointment to the illegitimate Myanmar military junta by UN agencies, funds, programmes and other entities working inside Myanmar. We urge you to intervene for a principled, coordinated UN response to the crisis in Myanmar. We call on you and all UN entities to immediately cease all forms of cooperation and engagement that lends legitimacy to the illegal murderous junta. Instead, letters of appointment and agreements must be presented to the legitimate government of Myanmar, the National Unity Government (NUG), and ethnic revolutionary organizations (EROs).
On 10 December 2021, 256 Myanmar CSOs urged UN entities to not engage with the junta in any way that lends them legitimacy. Despite these consistent calls from the people of Myanmar and CSOs, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), UN International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and UN International Organization for Migration (IOM) all signed new agreements with and presented credentials to the junta in August and September 2022. The public ceremonies, which were arranged with photographs, were used as propaganda by the military junta in its ongoing attempts to assert their legitimacy. The people of Myanmar have categorically rejected its attempts to seize power since its illegal attempted coup on 1 February 2021.
For nearly a year and a half, the people of Myanmar have sacrificed their lives and livelihoods to defend democracy and their rights by engaging in political defiance and armed resistance – as a last resort. Their aim is to prevent the illegal military junta from taking over the country, as it is attempting to do through inflicting immense suffering on the people.
The recent public actions by UN entities are direct interventions that clearly side with the military junta, undercutting the ongoing collective resistance efforts and sacrifices by the Myanmar people to end the Myanmar military’s tyranny and establish a federal democracy. This breaches the principles of democracy, human rights and humanitarian principles of impartiality, neutrality, independence and “do no harm” outlined in the UNs’ Joint Operating Standards and frame work of engagement, for which UN entities must comply with and hold themselves accountable.
Furthermore, in December 2021, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution to endorse the recommendations of the UN Credential Committee that had rejected the credentials of the military junta and allowed the incumbent Ambassador, U Kyaw Moe Tun, who represents the National Unity Government (NUG) and thus represents Myanmar, to maintain his position at the UN General Assembly. UN entities, and agencies, funds and programmes in Myanmar should be guided by this decision and should be engaging publicly with the NUG and not the military junta.
The Myanmar junta has neither the political legitimacy nor territorial control over Myanmar. According to a recent analysis by an independent group of experts and former UN mandate holders on Myanmar – Special Advisory Council for Myanmar – the NUG and resistance organizations have effective control over 52% of the territory of Myanmar, while the junta is being actively contested in a further 23% of the territory. This means that the junta can only claim to have stable control over 17% of the territory.
Moreover, UN mandate holders have repeatedly raised concern on the weaponization of humanitarian aid by the junta, actively destroying and restricting aid to the people. These realities question the UN’s effectiveness in reaching the population in need by signing agreements to work with the very perpetrators who are causing the humanitarian crisis in Myanmar. This is also demonstrative of the importance of signing agreements with the NUG and EROs, and the urgent need to work directly with local actors in the provision of humanitarian aid, including from along the borders of Myanmar.
Within 598 days of the attempted coup, the Myanmar military has killed at least 2,311 people, including 192 children in cold blood. More than 15,400 people have been arbitrarily arrested, with at least 12,462 people still detained, with many routinely facing torture. The actual numbers of deaths and arrests are likely far higher. The Myanmar military continues to commit gross human rights violations and atrocity crimes including war crimes and crimes against humanity by torching houses, burning villages, looting properties, massacring people, committing rape and gang rape, shooting on sight, indiscriminate shelling and launching airstrikes in towns and villages. The crimes committed by the military in the past 19 months, in addition to those crimes committed against Rohingya and other ethnic minorities in the past, are collected by the UN, including by the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar.
The signing of the MoUs and agreements with the junta, coupled with the inconsistent, ineffectual and non-principled approach to addressing the crisis in Myanmar by the UN, conveys the wrong message to the junta and to the world that it recognizes the body that terrorizes the people of Myanmar and is responsible for gross international crimes. This not only emboldens the junta to commit further atrocity crimes with total impunity, but it indicates that the UN, in practice, does not respect the will of the people of Myanmar as adopted in resolutions and statements, including by the UN General Assembly, UN Human Rights Council and in a statement issued by the president of the UN Security Council. The continuing issues in the UN’s approach in Myanmar, followings its “systemic and structural failures” in providing a unified approach in addressing the Rohingya genocide in 2017, highlighted in the 2019 Rosenthal Report, is glaring.
The people of Myanmar have been loud and clear that they want their legitimate government, the NUG and their Ambassador U Kyaw Moe Tun to be their representative at the UN. The will of Myanmar people in choosing their own government and thus their own representative at the UN and as well as in their struggle for federal democracy and human rights in their country must be fully recognized and respected by the UN and its member states.
Your Excellency, as the people and civil society of Myanmar, the region and throughout the world, we strongly urge all UN agencies, funds, programmes and other entities to stop legitimizing the illegal murderous junta and call on you for your leadership in a coordinated response to the crisis in Myanmar. We call on UN agencies, funds, programmes and other entities to work with the legitimate government of Myanmar, the NUG, EROs, CSOs and community-based organizations.
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Signed by 638 organizations, including 239 groups who have chosen not to disclose their names.
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Jan 25, 2022 | DFF, Statements
We, the undersigned 286 organizations stress the need, at an absolute minimum, to convene an open meeting of the UN Security Council to address the deteriorating humanitarian situation and urgent civilian protection concerns in Myanmar as a matter of extreme urgency.
As we approach one year since the attempted coup on 1 February, all UN Security Council member states have a shared responsibility to address the crisis in an open setting and share national positions on actions the UN Security Council should be taking. Closed meetings and press statements are not working.
We call on Norway as UN Security Council President, the UK as Myanmar “penholder” and all supportive states to table the open debate before the one-year anniversary and require other member states to declare their support.
Signed by:
- Action Aid International
- Action Committee for Democracy Development
- Ah Nah Podcast: Conversations with Myanmar
- Albany Karen Community, Albany NY
- All Arakan Students’ and Youths’ Congress
- All Burma Democratic Face in New Zealand
- Alternative Solutions for Rural Communities (ASORCOM)
- ALTSEAN-Burma
- American Baptist Churches USA
- American Rohingya Advocacy/Arakan Institute for Peace and Development
- Amnesty International
- Arizona Kachin Community, AZ
- ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights
- Asia Democracy Network
- Asian Dignity Initiative
- Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA)
- Association of Human Rights Defenders and Promoters
- Athan – Freedom of Expression Activist Organization
- Auckland Kachin Community NZ
- Auckland Zomi Community
- Australia Karen Organisation
- Backpack Health Workers Team
- Blood Money Campaign
- Boat People SOS
- Burma Action Ireland
- Burma Campaign UK
- Burma Human Rights Network (BHRN)
- Burma Medical Association
- Burma Task Force
- Burmese American Millennials
- Burmese Democratic Forces
- Burmese People in Ireland
- Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK
- Burmese Rohingya Welfare Organisation New Zealand
- Burmese Women’s Union
- Calgary Karen Community Association (CKCA)
- California Kachin Community, CA
- Campaign for a New Myanmar
- Canadian Rohingya Development Initiative (CRDI)
- Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE)
- CHANGJAK21
- Chin Community of Auckland
- Chin Leaders of Tomorrow (CLT)
- CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation
- Clean Clothes Campaign
- Coalition to Abolish Modern-day Slavery in Asia (CAMSA)
- Committee for Religious Freedom in Vietnam
- CRPH & NUG Supporters Ireland
- CRPH Funding Ireland
- Dallas Kachin Community, TX
- DEEKU, the Karenni Community of TX
- Democracy for Myanmar – Working Group (NZ)
- Democracy, Peace and Women’s Organization – DPW
- Dooplaya Karen Community Development Group
- Dr. Denis Mukwege Foundation
- Edmonton Karen Community Youth Organization
- Equality Myanmar
- European Karen Network
- European Rohingya Council
- Federal Myanmar Benevolence Group (NZ)
- Florida Kachin Community, FL
- Fortify Rights
- Free Burma Action Bay/USA/Global
- Free Myanmar Campaign USA/BACI
- Free Myanmar Inc.
- Freedom for Burma
- Freedom Justice Equality for Myanmar
- Future Light Center
- Future Thanlwin
- Generation Wave
- Georgia Kachin Community, GA
- Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect
- Global Justice Center
- Global Movement for Myanmar Democracy (GM4MD)
- Global Network of Women Peacebuilders (GNWP)
- Houston Kachin Community, TX
- Human Rights Foundation of Monland
- Human Rights Research and Education Centre, University of Ottawa
- Info Birmanie
- Initiatives for International Dialogue (IID)
- Inter Pares
- International Campaign for the Rohingya
- International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)
- International Karen Organisation
- International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)
- Iowa Kachin Community, IA
- Kachin American Community (Portland – Vancouver)
- Kachin Community of Indiana, IN
- Kachin Community of USA
- Kachin Women’s Association Thailand
- Kansas Karenni Community, KS
- Karen American Association of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
- Karen Association of Huron, SD
- Karen Community Association UK
- Karen Community in Syracuse, NY
- Karen Community in the Netherlands
- Karen Community of Akron, OH
- Karen Community of America
- Karen Community of Canada (KCC)
- Karen Community of Czech Republic
- Karen Community of Finland
- Karen Community of Hamilton
- Karen Community of Iowa, IA
- Karen Community of Ireland
- Karen Community of Israel
- Karen Community of Kansas City, KS & MO
- Karen Community of Kitchener & Waterloo
- Karen Community of Leamington
- Karen Community of Lethbridge
- Karen Community of London
- Karen Community of Louisville, KY
- Karen Community of Minnesota, MN
- Karen Community of North Carolina, NC
- Karen Community of Ottawa
- Karen Community of Regina
- Karen Community of Rochester, Rochester, NY
- Karen Community of Saskatoon
- Karen Community of Thunderbay
- Karen Community of Toronto
- Karen Community of Windsor
- Karen Community of Winnipeg
- Karen Community Society of British Columbia (KCSBC)
- Karen Environmental and Social Action Network (KESAN)
- Karen Finland Culture Association
- Karen Human Rights Group
- Karen Organization of Illinois, IL
- Karen Peace Support Network
- Karen Society of Nebraska
- Karen Society of Nebraska, NE
- Karen Swedish Community (KSC)
- Karen Thai Group
- Karen Women’s Organization
- Karen Youth Education Pathways
- Karen Youth Networks
- Karen Youth of Norway
- Karen Youth of Toronto
- Karen Youth Organization
- Karen Youth UK (KYUK)
- Karenni Baptist Association in Finland
- Karenni Baptist Convention of America
- Karenni Civil Society Network
- Karenni Community of Amarillo, TX
- Karenni Community of Arizona, AZ
- Karenni Community of Arkansas, AK
- Karenni Community of Austin, TX
- Karenni Community of Bowling Green, KY
- Karenni Community of Buffalo, NY
- Karenni Community of Chicago, IL
- Karenni Community of Colorado, CO
- Karenni Community of Connecticut, CT
- Karenni Community of Dallas, TX
- Karenni Community of Des Moines, IA
- Karenni Community of Florida, FL
- Karenni Community of Fort Wayne, IN
- Karenni Community of Fort Worth, TX
- Karenni Community of Georgia, GA
- Karenni Community of Grand Rapid, MI
- Karenni Community of Houston, TX
- Karenni Community of Idaho, ID
- Karenni Community of Indianapolis, IN
- Karenni Community of Lansing, MI
- Karenni Community of Louisville, KY
- Karenni Community of Massachusetts, MA
- Karenni Community of Minnesota, MN
- Karenni Community of Missouri, MO
- Karenni Community of New Jersey, NJ
- Karenni Community of North Carolina, NC
- Karenni Community of Portland, OR
- Karenni Community of Rockford, IL
- Karenni Community of San Antonio, TX
- Karenni Community of Sioux Falls, SD
- Karenni Community of Utica, NY
- Karenni Community of Washington, WI
- Karenni Community of Wisconsin, WI
- Karenni Education Department (KnED)
- Karenni Evergreen (KEG)
- Karenni Federation of Australia
- Karenni Health Department (KnHD)
- Karenni Human Rights Group
- Karenni Legal and Human Rights Center (KnLHRC)
- Karenni Literacy and Culture Development Committee (KLCDC)
- Karenni National Society (KNS-Japan)
- Karenni National Women’s Organization
- Karenni National Youth Organization (KNYO)
- Karenni Refugee Committee (KnRC)
- Karenni Social Welfare and Development Centre (KSWDC)
- Karenni Society Finland RY
- Karenni Society of Canada
- Karenni Society of New Zealand
- Karenni Society of Omaha, NE
- Karenni Student Union (KSU)
- Karenni Talkshow-KTS, USA
- Karenni Youth of Minnesota, MN
- Karenni-American Association
- Karenni-American Catholic Association
- Kayah State Student Union (KSSU)
- Kayahlilaykloe, Austin, TX
- Kayahliphu Youth – KLY
- Kayan New Generation Youth (KNGY)
- Kayan Women Organization (KyWO)
- Keng Tung Youth
- Kentucky Kachin Community, KY
- KnA-Kay Phoe Du Program
- Korea Karen Organization
- Korea Karen Youth Organization
- Korean House for International Solidarity
- Korean Solidarity for Overseas Community Organization
- La Communauté Birmane de France
- LA Rohingya Association/America Rohingya Justice Network
- Louisiana Kachin Community, LO
- Maryland Kachin Community, MD
- Mekong Watch
- Metta Campaign Mandalay
- Michigan Kachin Community, MI
- MiningWatch Canada
- Minnesota Kachin Community, MN
- Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies
- MY STORY Photo Project Association
- Myanmar Accountability Project
- Myanmar Advocacy Coalition
- Myanmar Democratic Force in Denmark
- Myanmar Engineers – New Zealand
- Myanmar Family Community Ireland (MFCI)
- Myanmar Gonye (New Zealand)
- Myanmar People Alliance (Shan State)
- Myanmar Students’ Union in New Zealand
- Nationalities Alliance of Burma USA
- Network for Advocacy Action (Tanintharyi)
- Network for Human Rights Documentation-Burma (ND-Burma)
- Never Again Coalition
- New York Kachin Community, NY
- New Zealand Doctors for NUG
- New Zealand Karen Association
- New Zealand Zo Community Inc.
- Nguyen Van Ly Foundation
- No Business With Genocide
- North Carolina Kachin Community, NC
- Norwegian Helsinki Committee (NHC)
- Nyan Lynn Thit Analytica
- Olive Organization
- Omaha Kachin Community, NE
- Organization Of Karenni Development Malaysia
- Oversea Karen Organization Japan
- Overseas Mon Association-New Zealand
- Pennsylvania Kachin Community, PA
- People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy (PSPD)
- Physicians for Human Rights (PHR)
- Progressive Voice
- Pyithu Gonye (New Zealand)
- Refugees International
- Rochester Karenni Community, NY
- Rohingya Action Ireland
- Rohingya Centre of Canada
- Rohingya Refugee Network (RRN)
- Rvwang Community Association New Zealand
- Save and Care Organization for Ethnic Women at Border Areas
- Save Myanmar Fundraising Group (New Zealand)
- Save the Children
- Shan Community (New Zealand)
- Shan MATA
- Sisters 2 Sisters
- South Carolina Kachin Community, SC
- Southern Youth Development Organization
- Stefanus Alliance International
- Students for Free Burma
- Support the Democracy Movement in Burma
- Swedish Burma Committee
- Synergy – Social Harmony Organization
- Ta’ang Women’s Organization
- Ta’ang Legal Aid
- Tanitharyi Women Network
- Tennessee Kachin Community, TN
- Thint Myat Lo Thu Myar
- U.S. Advocacy Coalition for Myanmar (USACM)
- U.S. Campaign for Burma
- Union of Karenni State Youth
- Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
- Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights, University of Cincinnati College of Law
- Utica Karen Community, NY
- Vietnam Coalition Against Torture
- Virginia Kachin Community, VA
- Washington Kachin Community, WA
- West Virginia Kachin Community, WV
- Women for Women Foundation (Karenni State)
- Women’s League of Burma
- Women’s Peace Network
