KCC to campaign for resumption of aids to border area
KCC to campaign for resumption of aids to border area
Karen Information Center, 06 Sep 2018
URL: https://www.bnionline.net/en/news/kcc-campaign-resumption-aids-border-area
The Karen Community of Canada (KCC) will conduct international campaigns to resume aids to the refugees in Thai-Myanmar border and internally displaced persons (IDPs).
“There has been a great decline in aids for the refugee camps at the Thai border and also for local IDPs. We have decided to advocate for them and conduct international campaigns,” he said.
He continued that the KCC will submit to the Canadian government about the the military conflict in ethnic areas including the Karen (Kayin) State and human rights violations that have been committed against ethnic minorities and give more pressure for the international community to take action against Myanmar government.
Since 2014, education, health, and social aids including food supplies and aids for camp management havebeen significantly reduced for the refugees living in nine Myanmar refugee camps along Thai-Myanmar border. International aids have also been cut for the local IDPs since 2017, according to the people who have been assisting the refugees and IDPs.
The KCC was established in 1998 to work for the affairs of the Karen nationals living in Canada. Canada is home to between 80,000 and 10,000 Karen people and most of them migrated to the country from the refugee camps at the Thai-Myanmar border under the UNHCR’s third country settlement program since 2006.
“There has been a great decline in aids for the refugee camps at the Thai border and also for local IDPs. We have decided to advocate for them and conduct international campaigns,” he said.
He continued that the KCC will submit to the Canadian government about the the military conflict in ethnic areas including the Karen (Kayin) State and human rights violations that have been committed against ethnic minorities and give more pressure for the international community to take action against Myanmar government.
Since 2014, education, health, and social aids including food supplies and aids for camp management havebeen significantly reduced for the refugees living in nine Myanmar refugee camps along Thai-Myanmar border. International aids have also been cut for the local IDPs since 2017, according to the people who have been assisting the refugees and IDPs.
The KCC was established in 1998 to work for the affairs of the Karen nationals living in Canada. Canada is home to between 80,000 and 10,000 Karen people and most of them migrated to the country from the refugee camps at the Thai-Myanmar border under the UNHCR’s third country settlement program since 2006.