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Community Organizations Human Rights Foundation of Monland
Human Rights Foundation of Monland
Human Rights Foundation of Monland
Acronym
HURFOM
Non-profit organization
Phone number
(+66) 034 595 473, (+66) 034 595 665

Location

Bangkok
Thailand
Postal address
Human Rights Foundation Of Monland (Burma)
P. O. Box 2237
General Post Office
Bangkok 10501, THAILAND
Working languages
Burmese
English

The HURFOM was founded by pro-democracy students from the 1988 uprising and more recent activists and Mon community leaders and youths, and it main aim is for the restoration of democracy, human rights and genuine peace in Burma. HURFOM is a non-profit organization and all its members are volunteers who have the same opinion for the same aim. By accepting the main aim, we would like to participate in struggle for the establishment of a democratic Burma doing our part as a local ethnic human rights group, which is monitoring the human rights situation in Mon territory and other areas southern part of Burma. We provide information and reports to allcampaign organizations to get helps from the international community for democratic reform in Burma. For this project, HURFOM has produced a monthly human rights report, with the name of “The Mon Forum” for 9 years.

Members:

Resources

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Burma’s Navy Attacks Civilians’ Livelihood - An Account on Land Confiscation and Human Rights Violations on Kywe Thone Nyi Ma Island, Yebyu Township, Tenasserim Division

Reports & Research
Junho, 2011
Myanmar

...Beginning in December 2010, Burmese Navy Unit No. 43, under the
command of Ka Dike-based government navy regional command head
quarters, began to confiscate the rubber plantations and household plots of
villagers on Kywe Thone Nyi Ma Island, Yebyu Township, Tennaserim
Division. Since then, all land on which red signboards were placed by the
navy has been confiscated. This report documents the confiscation of over
1,000 acres of land on Kywe Thone Nyi Ma Island. However, HURFOM found

Laid Waste: Human Rights along the Kanbauk to Myaing Kalay gas pipeline

Reports & Research
Abril, 2009
Myanmar

...Laid Waste documents the suffering of villagers along the 180-mile Kanbauk to Myaing
Kalay gas pipeline. Ten years after the pipeline’s initial construction, villagers along its
route continue to see their land seized and income taken as they are conscripted into
work as forced laborers and subject to arbitrary detentions, torture and summary
execution. This report is released at a time when international debate on appropriate
responses to the situation in Burma appears to be renewing. The discussion is healthy

No Land to Farm

Reports & Research
Setembro, 2003
Myanmar

...In the last four years, the Burmese army based in Mon State has confiscated thousands acres of farmland. The farmers whose land had been confiscated were not given any compensation. They have no opportunity to take legal actions against the army. As a result, many farmers who lost their lands left to Thailand to seek employment. Those who stayed in villages and towns became landless and jobless..." Land confiscation by the Burmese military - description, analysis and case studies.