Project Summary

HRC is an innovative initiative at the Centre for Ah Nyar Studies. It is dedicated to advancing justice, accountability, and human rights protection in Burma. In a context where impunity prevails, HRC is a hub for human rights research and investigation. HRC serves as both a learning space and an action-oriented platform, engaging academic, grassroots leaders, and civil society actors in evidence-based advocacy, capacity building, and community-based justice efforts.

HRC operates through a dual-pillar framework, with grassroots transitional justice initiatives as our core priority and formal justice mechanisms as a complementary effort, particularly at the international level. The first pillar focuses on empowering local communities to document human rights violations, preserve historical memory, and lead survivor-centred truth-seeking and justice initiatives. The second pillar ensures that these community-driven efforts inform and complement formal justice mechanisms, bridging local realities with national and international accountability processes.

HRC core work addresses the following serious violations of international law.

1) Extrajudicial Killings
2) Arbitrary Arrest and Detention
3) Forced Disappearance
4) Gender-Based Violence (GBV)
5) Child Rights Violations
6) Attacks on Civilians
7) Destruction of Religious and Cultural Properties

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