DVB spoke to the KNU's Zipporah Sein to find out more about the committee tasked with negotiating 15 new draft-ceasefire amendments with the government.

Vigils are held in thirteen towns across the country as the NLD make a statement on the brutal killing of the two Kachin women last week.

For those keen to participate in Burma's uneven process of opening up, uncomfortable compromises have had to be made on all sides. Slow and steady no longer wins the race, says DVB contributor David Baulk.

Returning from a global summit on sexual violence in London, Susanna Hla Hla Soe of the Karen Women’s Empowerment Group says nearly everyone is missing the point.

Following the Burmese government’s invitation for public opinion on a proposed Religious Conversion Law, 81 organisations from Burma and elsewhere have recommended that it be completely discarded.

Three days of talks at the Myanmar Peace Centre between an alliance of 17 ethnic armed groups and a government delegation saw further discussion on the specific points of a single-text agreement which has now been solidified into a second draft.