Trapped in hell
Trafficking, enslavement and torture of youth by Chinese criminal gangs in northeast Shan State since the 2021 coup Download report: English Chinese Thai Burmese Shan SUMMARY This report is based on interviews
SAC go-ahead for UWSA factories in Tachileik threatens far-reaching pollution
Summary Renewed efforts by the United Wa State Army’s Hong Pang conglomerate, backed by the SAC regime, to push through construction of two factories on confiscated land near Tachileik, a kilometer from
Blackening our Future: Burma Army-linked coal mining expansion in war-torn northern Shan State
Update By the Shan Human Rights Foundation Summary During the past year, the Mandalay-based conglomerate Ngwe Yi Pale and the Burma Army have expanded their coal mining operations in war-torn northern Shan
From scorched earth to parched earth
Update By the Shan Human Rights Foundation Summary This report exposes how Burma Army terror campaigns, forced depopulation, and military expansion have paved the way for dam building on the Nam Teng
Stop Coal Mining in Nam Ma
Update by the Shan Human Rights Foundation In 2004, Ngwe Yi Pale Company began coal mining in Nam Matract of Hsipaw township. The mining has destroyed farmlands and irrigation sources, and caused
Save the Namtu River
Update By the Shan Human Rights Foundation Summary In January 2016, Burma’s state media reported that Naypyidaw was proceeding with four new hydropower dams on the Namtu (Myitnge or Dokhtawaddy) River, three
Broken Promises Deadly Gold Mining Continues in Mong Len
Update By the Shan Human Rights Foundation In response to strong community resistance to gold mining in Mong Len, eastern Shan State, the Shan State Mining Minister ordered the mining to stop
Stop gold mining in Mong Len
Update by the Shan Human Rights Foundation Since 2007, over ten companies have been digging for gold in the “Loi Kham” hills between the town of Ta Ler and the Mekong River,
Charting the exodus from Shan State
Update by the Shan Human Rights Foundation SUMMARY This report gives quantitative evidence in support of claims that there has been a large influx of Shans arriving into northern Thailand during the
Licence to rape
By Shan Human Rights Foundation & Shan Women’ Action Network EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report details 173 incidents of rape and other forms of sexual violence, involving 625 girls and women, committed by