က်ဳိးပ်က္သြားေသာ ကြန္းခုိရာ - ေက်ာင္းမ်ားကို တိုက္ခိုက္ျခင္းသည္ ကေလးသူငယ္ အခြင့္အေရးမ်ားကို တုိက္ခုိက္ျခင္းျဖစ္သည္

အန္ဒီဘေရာင္း ေရးသားသည္

ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္၊ ျမန္မာ - အသက္ ၁၁ ႏွစ္အရြယ္ ေဇာင္ဆိုင္းမွာ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ၊ ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္၊ မိုးညႇင္းေဒသရွိ နမ္းယအလယ္တန္းေက်ာင္းမွ ေက်ာင္းသားတစ္ဦးျဖစ္သည္။ ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္မွာ ၁၇ ႏွစ္ၾကာ အပစ္အခတ္ ရပ္ဆဲမႈ ပ်က္ျပားသြားၿပီးေနာက္ ၂၀၁၁ ခုႏွစ္ကတည္းက ပဋိပကၡဒဏ္ခံခဲ့ရသည္။ လတ္တေလာျဖစ္ေပၚခဲ့ သည့္ အၾကမ္းဖက္မႈမ်ားေၾကာင့္ လူေထာင္ေပါင္းမ်ားစြာ ေသဆံုးခဲ့ရၿပီး ႏိုင္ငံသား တစ္သိန္းေက်ာ္ အိမ္ပစ္ရာပစ္ထြက္ေပးခဲ့ၾကရကာ ယင္းတုိ႔ထဲက တစ္ဝက္မွာ ကေလးငယ္မ်ား ျဖစ္သည္။ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး ေဆြးေႏြးမႈမ်ား ျပဳလုပ္ေနေသာ္လည္း အၿပီးသတ္သေဘာတူညီမႈ ရရွိရန္ ခက္ခဲေနၿပီး တုိက္ခုိက္မႈမ်ား ဆက္လက္ျဖစ္ေပၚေနသည္။

ေက်ာင္းတုိက္ခုိက္ခံရခ်ိန္တြင္ အသက္ ၁၁ ႏွစ္အရြယ္ ေဇာင္ဆိုင္းနဲ႔ ဆရာမ မျမတို႔ ႏွစ္ဦးစလံုး ဒဏ္ရာရခဲ့သည္။ 
©ယူနီဆက္ဖ္ျမန္မာ/၂၀၁၆/ခုိင္ဇာမြန္

Broken sanctuary: attacks on schools are assaults of children’s rights

By Andy Brown, Regional Communication Specialist for UNICEF East Asia and Pacific

Kachin State, Myanmar - Zau Seng, 11, is a student at Nam Ya Middle School, in Moe Nyin District, Kachin State, Myanmar. Kachin has been affected by conflict since 2011, following the collapse of a 17-year ceasefire. The recent violence has resulted in thousands of deaths and the displacement of around 100,000 civilians, half of them children. Despite ongoing peace talks, a final deal has proved elusive and the fighting continues.

Zau Seng, 11, and teacher Mya, both of whom were injured in an attack on their school

© UNICEF Myanmar/2016/Khine Zar Mon

အပစ္အခတ္ျဖစ္ပြားရာေနရာမ်ားတစ္ေလွ်ာက္ရွိ ကေလးငယ္မ်ား ပညာသင္ၾကားခြင့္ ရရွိေရး

၂၀၁၁ခုႏွစ္ ႏွစ္လယ္တြင္ ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္ႏွင့္ ရွမ္းျပည္နယ္ေျမာက္ပိုင္းတြင္ အပစ္အခတ္ရပ္ဆဲေရး သေဘာတူညီမႈ က်ဳိးပ်က္သြားကတည္းက ပဋိပကၡဒဏ္ခံ ကေလးငယ္အားလံုးအတြက္ အရည္အေသြးမီ အေျခခံပညာေရးဝန္ေဆာင္မႈ ရရွိေရးမွာ ႀကီးစြာေသာ စိန္ေခၚမႈအျဖစ္ ရွိေနခဲ့သည္။  လတ္တေလာတြင္ အၾကမ္းဖက္မႈ အရွိန္ျမင့္တက္ေနသည့္အတြက္ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံရွိ ႏွစ္ဖက္ ေရွ႕တန္းစစ္ေျမျပင္တြင္ ေနထိုင္ေသာ ပဋိပကၡဒဏ္ခံ ကေလးငယ္မ်ားအတြက္ ပညာေရးမွာ အလိုအပ္ဆံုးအရာတစ္ခု ျဖစ္ေနသည္။

မာရီယာနာပါလာဗရာ ေရးသားသည္

ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္ - အသက္ ၃၂ ႏွစ္အရြယ္ ေဒၚခြမ္ႏြမ္အတြက္ ဘဝက အျမဲလြယ္ကူခဲ့သည္ေတာ့ မဟုတ္ေပ။ ၎မွာ ကခ်င္လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးအဖြဲ႕အစည္းက ထိန္းခ်ဳပ္ထားေသာ ဧရိယာအတြင္းရွိ ခ်ီေဖြၿမိဳ႕တြင္ ေနထုိင္သည္။ ၎၏မိခင္မွာ ၎အသက္ ၇ႏွစ္အရြယ္တြင္  ငွက္ဖ်ားေရာဂါေၾကာင့္ ေသဆံုးသြားခဲ့ၿပီး စစ္တပ္မွ အနားယူထားေသာ ၎၏ဖခင္မွာ ေနာက္ ၄ႏွစ္အၾကာတြင္ ေသဆံုးသြားခဲ့သည္။ ထုိ႔ေနာက္ ၎မွာ အႀကီးဆံုးအစ္ကို၏ ေနအိမ္သို႔ ေျပာင္းေရႊ႕ေနထုိင္ခဲ့သည္။

ေရွးဦးအရြယ္ကေလးဘဝဖြံ႕ၿဖိဳးမႈ (ECD) လုပ္အားေပးဆရာမ အသက္ ၃၂ ႏွစ္အရြယ္ ေဒၚခြမ္ႏြမ္
ယူနီဆက္ဖ္ျမန္မာ/၂၀၁၆/ခုိင္ဇာမြန္

Meeting children’s rights to education across the fire lines

Since the collapse of the ceasefire in mid-2011 in Kachin and northern Shan, ensuring access to quality basic education services for all children affected by conflict has remained a big challenge. With the current escalation of violence, education remains one of the most critical needs for conflict-affected children who live on both sides of the frontline in Myanmar.  

By Mariana Palavra, Communication Specialist

Kachin State - Life wasn’t always easy for 32 year-old Hkawng Nyoi, who lives in Chipwe Township, in an area controlled by the Kachin Independence Organisation. Her mother died from malaria when she was 7 years old and her father, who was retired from the army, passed away some four years later. Then, she moved to her eldest brother’s house. 

32 year-old Hkawng Nyoi is a ECD volunteer teacher

©UNICEF Myanmar/2016/Khine Zar Mon

ကေလးသူငယ္က်န္းမာေရးႏွင့္ အာဟာရေထာက္ပံ့မႈသည္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံတြင္း ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးကို တည္ေဆာက္ႏိုင္

ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး ႏိုဘယ္လ္ဆုရွင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ႏွင့္ သူ၏ အမ်ိဳးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္သည္ ၂၅ ႏွစ္တာ ကာလအတြင္း ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ၏ ပထမဆုံးေသာ လြတ္လပ္သည့္ ေ႐ြးေကာက္ပြဲတြင္ အျပတ္အသတ္ အႏိုင္ရရွိ ခဲ့ကာ NLD မွ လာမည့္ႏွစ္ဦးတြင္ အစိုးရအဖြဲ႕ဖြဲ႕သည့္အခါ ကမၻာတြင္ အခ်ိန္အၾကာျမင့္ဆံုး ျဖစ္သည့္ ျပည္တြင္းပဋိပကၡႏွင့္ ရင္ဆိုင္ ၾကံဳေတြ႔ ရမည္ျဖစ္ေပသည္။

ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္အစိုးရႏွင့္ လက္နက္ကိုင္အဖြဲ႕(၈)ဖြဲ႕ၾကားတြင္ မၾကာေသးမီက ခ်ဳပ္ဆိုခဲ့ေသာ အပစ္အခတ္ ရပ္စဲေရး သေဘာတူစာခ်ဳပ္ရွိေသာ္လည္း အဆိုပါ သေဘာတူညီခ်က္သည္ အထူးသျဖင့္ ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္ ႏွင့္ ရွမ္းျပည္နယ္ေျမာက္ပိုင္းတြင္ ေနထိုင္ေသာ ကေလးသူငယ္ ၁.၈ သန္းခန္႔ကို အကာအကြယ္ မျဖစ္ေစခဲ့ေပ။ အဆိုပါေနရာမ်ားတြင္ တားဆီးပိတ္ပင္ေနသကဲ့သို႔ ျဖစ္ေနသည္။ UNICEF ႏွင့္ NGO Health Poverty Action တို႔သည္ အေျခခံက်န္းမာေရး ေစာင့္ေရွာက္မႈႏွင့္ အာဟာရရရွိမႈ ခိုင္မာေစရန္ ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္႐ြက္လ်က္ရွိၿပီး ပဋိပကၡျဖစ္ပြားမႈ၊ နယ္ေျမအခက္အခဲရွိမႈႏွင့္ ႏိုင္ငံေရး ကန္႔သတ္ပိတ္ပင္မႈ မ်ားေၾကာင့္ ေရာက္ရွိရန္ ခက္ခဲသည့္ေဒသမ်ားရွိ ေမြးကင္းစကေလးမ်ားႏွင့္ ကေလးသူငယ္မ်ားအား အာဟာရ ေထာက္ပံ့မႈမ်ားကို ေဆာင္႐ြက္ေပးလ်က္ရွိသည္။

Mariana Palavra ေရးသားသည္

၂၀၁၅ ခုႏွစ္၊ ႏိုဝင္ဘာလ ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္ - ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံေျမာက္ပိုင္း ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္တြင္ ျဖစ္ပြားခဲ့သည့္ ျပည္တြင္း ပဋိပကၡတြင္ လြမ္းႏို အဖမ္းခံခဲ့ရသည္။ ေလယာဥ္ဗုံးႀကဲသံ၊ အဆက္မျပတ္ ေသနတ္ပစ္ခတ္ သံႏွင့္ မိုင္းကြဲသံတို႔ကို ၾကားခဲ့ရသည္ဟု လြမ္းႏိုက ျပန္ေျပာျပသည္။ ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္တြင္ ျပည္တြင္း ပဋိပကၡ ျဖစ္ပြားခဲ့သည့္ ၂၀၁၁ ခုႏွစ္ အခ်ိန္က ျဖစ္သည္။ 

 

လြမ္းႏိုသည္ လြန္ခဲ့သည့္ သံုးႏွစ္က ျပည္တြင္းပဋိပကၡမွ တိမ္းေရွာင္ ထြက္ေျပးလာကာ ေန႔ရပ္စြန္႔ခြာ တိမ္းေရွာင္သူမ်ား စခန္းတြင္ပင္ အိမ္ေထာင္က်ခဲ့သည္။ ယခု သူမေမြးထားသည့္ ငါးလအရြယ္ ကေလးငယ္ေလးအား ထက္ျမတ္ေအာင္ျမင္သည့္ စီးပြားရွင္ၾကီး ျဖစ္လာေစခ်င္ေနသည္။
©UNICEF Myanmar/2015/Mariana Palavra

Children’s health and nutrition helps build peace in Myanmar

Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy (NLD) has won a landslide victory in Myanmar’s first free elections in 25 years. When NLD assumes office early next year, it will face one of the longest running civil conflict in the world.

Despite the recent signing of a ceasefire between the Government and representatives of eight ethnic armed group, an estimated 1.8 million children are not covered by the agreement, especially those living in some areas of Kachin and northern Shan, where conflicts continue and prevent children from accessing basic services. UNICEF and the NGO Health Poverty Action work together to strengthen access to primary health care and nutrition interventions, such as infant and young child feeding support in areas that are hard to reach due to conflict, poor geographical access, and political constraints.

 

By Mariana Palavra

 

Kachin State, November 2015 - Lwan No was caught in the middle of the civil conflict in Kachin State, Northern Myanmar. “I could hear the planes bombing the area, the constant gun shots and mine explosions”, she recalls. This was in 2011, when the civil conflict broke out in Kachin. 

 

Lwan No got married in this IDP camp, after fleeing from the civil conflict three years ago. Now, she wants her five-month old baby to become a bright and successful businesswoman.
©UNICEF Myanmar/2015/Mariana Palavra

UNICEF delivers aid to thousands of children and families in Kachin State

Yangon, Myanmar, 11 September 2013:  From 7 to 10 September, UNICEF joined the UN Led Cross Line Mission to provide humanitarian assistance in the non-government controlled conflict-affected areas in Kachin State to deliver aid to thousands of children and families.

Starting from Kachin state capital Myitkyina, the Mission had to cross rough terrain through heavy rain and extreme weather to reach remote locations. Nearly 16,000 people in four IDP camps in Laiza: Woi Chyai Dabang, Je Yang, No 3 Market; Hpun Lum Yang and a Boarding school hosting IDP students in Momauk township, were reached with 11-truck load of supplies. IDPs in these camps will receive further humanitarian assistance. UNICEF staff also conducted brief health awareness sessions and explained the use of distributed items.

UNICEF has provided supplies in Wash, Health and Nutrition, and Education that reached an estimated 5,500 children and their families. Woi Chyai camp alone has over 1500 children under the age of 15.

Five UNICEF staff have also participated in rapid needs assessment to better plan and organize further critical support.

“UNICEF views this convoy as much more than the delivery of humanitarian assistance. It’s about bringing hope, trust, peace and international community support to the children, families and communities of Kachin. It’s about upholding human rights, including children’s rights, enhancing development outcomes and ensuring a brighter, peaceful future for all children and their families,” said Bertrand Bainvel, UNICEF Representative in Yangon, "It is high time normalcy was restored to the lives of children in Kachin.”

UN Led Cross Line Mission to conflict affected areas of Myanmar’s Kachin state is organized under the aegis of UN OCHA and in cooperation with other UN agencies and partners.

Since the beginning of the conflict in 2011, cross-line missions were conducted to border areas, covering only approximately 20 per cent (some 10,000 IDPs) of the total caseload in areas beyond Government control. Full and sustained access to all displaced locations is essential to provide assistance to all people in need.

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