Local people have their own set of demands. They are calling for transparency, public participation, and meaningful decision-making power in resource governance.
Category: Myanmar
Ayeyarwady: nation’s most important single natural resource needs dedicated management authority
It’s time that the nation’s most important single natural resource benefitted from a dedicated management authority.
Land Seizures, Protests, and Arrests in Myanmar
Despite arrests, detention, and torture, land rights activists in Myanmar are refusing to be silenced.
Advancing Myanmar’s gender equality
Eduction is critical to overcoming conventions, beliefs, values, attitudes, and prejudices based on traditions and historical experience woven throughout Myanmar society.
Chinese company to build new Yangon City has troubles abroad
The company has been embroiled in numerous controversies surrounding alleged fraud, corruption and bribery in many other countries where it implemented similar development projects.
China, India and Myitsone: the power game to come
If China and India really seek sustainable development in Myanmar, they would do well to engage more locally and listen to the voices of the people.
After Decades of Conflict, Land Deadline Looms for Myanmar Villagers
“We lost so much in the conflict. Now there is no more conflict, but we have lost our land, and we don’t know if we will ever get it back.”
Biodiversity, people’s livelihoods at risk in Chindwin River Basin
The largest tributary of the Ayeyarwady River supports vital ecological services and biological diversity that provide the essential needs for six million people in Myanmar.