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A team of mobile medics from the Free Burma Rangers (FBR) distribute medical supplies to displaced villagers living in hiding from the Burma Army in northern Papun District on August 8th 2008. Displaced villagers in hiding access such mobile medical teams as one means of maintaining their evasion of the military forces that are trying to clear them out of the hills. [Photo: KHRG]

Due to the ongoing SPDC offensive in northern Karen State, children in Toungoo District face severe challenges to food, health and education. The child on the left in photo A-104, shown here on December 15th 2007, comes from Y--- village and is suffering from malnutrition because his parents ran low on food supplies while living displaced in the forest. For more information on the human rights situation of children in Karen State, see Growing up under militarisation: Abuse and agency of children in Karen State, KHRG, April 2008. [Photo: KHRG]

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This baby, apparently jaundiced, was quite ill when this photo was taken at its home in Papun District in January 2008. Military-imposed movement restrictions and impoverishment mean that many households cannot access, or afford to access, necessary medical treatment and supplies. [Photos: KHRG]

A Free Burma Rangers (FBR) mobile medical team delivers medicine and other supplies to displaced villagers in southeastern Toungoo District in January 2008. [Photo: KHRG]

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Mobile medics from the Free Burma Rangers (FBR) distribute medicine to displaced villagers at a hiding site in Toungoo District on January 27th 2008. For many displaced villagers in hiding, such cross-border provisions remain the only source of modern medicine to which they have access. Burma Army-imposed restrictions and shoot-on-sight policies - plus the high cost of travel - present severe barriers to accessing hospitals in both Burma and Thailand. [Photo: KHRG]

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A Free Burma Rangers (FBR) medic distributes medicine and treats displaced villagers from Sih Daw Koh in southern Toungoo District on May 25th and May 26th 2008. Due to ongoing Burma Army patrols and attacks in the area, this displaced community has found it extremely difficult to access adequate supplies of food and medicine on its own. [Photos: KHRG]

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Due to insufficient funding, this school in SPDC-controlled Kyone Doh Township (shown here on August 30th 2007) has not been able to provide any materials for its students. Students' families have therefore had to purchase all books and other supplies themselves. [Photo: KHRG]

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Villagers in Papun District participate in KHRG Village Agency workshops in 2008.

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Through these workshops, KHRG field researchers act as facilitators, encouraging villagers to discuss the efforts they employ to resist human rights abuses, how these efforts can be strengthened and new initiatives that can be tested. For more details on KHRG's Village Agency workshops, see the short article "Supporting IDP Resistance Strategies." [Photos: KHRG]

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The nine-year-old boy shown here in Bilin Township, Thaton District, on April 19th 2008 is minding cattle as a form of wage labour in order to support his family. He told KHRG that he wanted to go to school but his parents could not afford to send him. [Photo: KHRG]

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Thirteen-year-old Saw Gk--- helping his parents gather thatch for the roof of their house on April 19th 2008 in Kh--- village, Bilin Township, Thaton District. The SPDC frequently demands forced labour from his parents but, because they have to focus on their own livelihoods, Saw Gk--- has to do the forced labour on their behalf and so is unable to attend school. [Photo: KHRG]

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Displaced children from Sih Daw Koh village pass the time at a hiding site in Tantabin Township, southern Toungoo District. Due to ongoing Burma Army patrols in the area, there were 50 children in this community who were unable to travel to attend school when these photos were taken in May 2008. [Photos: KHRG]

These three Karen children sit and play at a displaced hiding site in Tantabin Township of southern Toungoo District. When this photo was taken in July 2008, they were unable to travel to attend school due to ongoing patrols of SPDC Army units in their area. [Photo: KHRG]

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