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Burma Issues is a non-profit organisation, made up of young ethnic people from Eastern Burma who now dedicate their lives to educating and empowering the grassroots communities in Eastern Burma, documenting human rights abuses and acting as a bridge between the grassroots communities and the international community.

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Grassroots empowerment: educating and empowering communities in Burma's civil war zones. Providing education to both adults and children in concepts of civil participation, leadership, critical thinking, and cultural pride
Information for action: documenting the human rights abuses through interviews, videos and photography
Campaigns for peace: raising awareness amongst the international community about the situation
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A Karen boy who lives on the banks of the Salween River

 

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Flowers From Burma

This video looks at the situation of Karenni farmers along the Shan/Karenni border who have been forced to turn to the illicit growing of opium for survival, and at the role that high-level corruption and collusion by officials plays in perpetuating the drug trade.
June 2009

Burma Issues latest Report

The cover the report:Living Ghosts

Living Ghosts: The spiralling repression of the Karenni population under the Burmese military junta
March 2008

Burma Issues Latest Newsletter

December 2009

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