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| Founded | 1992 |
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| Type | Human Rights Advocacy |
Area served | Burma |
| Website | www |
The Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG)[1] is a grassroots Karen-led human rights organisation, established in Karen State during 1992 and it is now operating across rural southeast Burma/Myanmar. With over twenty years of experience. KHRG is recognised internationally as an authority on major issues such as internal displacement, forced labour, landmines, conflict and land confiscation in southeast Burma/Myanmar. KHRG works directly with "rural villagers who are suffering abuses such as forced labor, systematic destruction of villagers and crops, forced relocations, extortion, looting, arbitrary detention, torture, sexual assault and summary executions." Most of these abuses were committed by soldiers and officials of the State Peace & Development Council (SPDC), Burma's previous ruling military junta. The organisation's goal is to support villagers in rural Burma, by helping them develop strategies to resist abuse and by translating their testimonies for worldwide distribution, accompanied by supporting photos and documentary evidence.[1][2]
Most recently, KHRG was awarded the Asia Democracy and Human Rights Award in 2013,[3] and KHRG staffers have been chosen to represent national civil society organisations in discussing land rights with the Myanmar National Human Rights Commission and the Myanmar Peace Center, and to testify before the United Nations Security Council about child soldiers.[4]
- ^ a b "Karen Human Rights Group". khrg.org. Retrieved 5 June 2019.
- ^ "Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG)". Insight on Conflict. Retrieved 21 October 2016.
- ^ "Karen Human Rights Group Wins Prestigious HR Award « Karen News". karennews.org. Archived from the original on 10 May 2017. Retrieved 29 April 2016.
- ^ "Reforms make little difference in rural Burma, says KHRG in speech to UN Security Council « Karen News". karennews.org. Archived from the original on 10 May 2017. Retrieved 29 April 2016.