Job recruitment: Atrocity prevention fellow

• Research and write summaries and sections for Coupwatch reports and thematic trackers
• Coordinate and implement Semester 4 of the Bridges MM youth atrocity prevention program.
  
• Assist with ongoing programs such as the Women of Burma internship and human rights defender fellowship.
• Assist with updates of relevant curricula and modules across our training programs including for the Women of Burma program, Introduction to Transitional Justice, Atrocity Prevention and Economics, and Women, Peace & Security, as needed.
  
• Assist with joint projects of ALTSEAN and the APR2P Centre, including facilitation of Youth Core Group on Atrocity Prevention, regional youth activities, and the SOSHate Site/App.
  
• Other duties as directed by the Coordinator.

• The junta’s 17 air strikes in April kill more civilians than during the entire period of Feb 2021 - Mar 2023.
  
• Junta carries out its deadliest air strike to date, killing 200 civilians in Sagaing before Thingyan; follows up with clearance operation.
  
• Clashes with junta forces near shadowy development project displaces over 10,000 civilians.
  
• Junta head Min Aung Hlaing approves a 51% jump in military spending for 2023 - 2024.
  
• Former UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon pays visit to coup leader at junta's invitation; engages NUG after backlash.
  

• llegal junta dissolves NLD & 39 other parties – the winners of 88.45% of parliament seats in 2020.
  
• China, India, Bangladesh & ASEAN reps visit 'transit camp' for forcibly repatriated Rohingya.
  
• Junta forces execute 29 civilians including three monks and two teenage boys in Shan State ‘Ogre column’ beheads at least 4 in Sagaing & Magwe.
  
• Junta forcibly conscripts civilians: Those who refuse have to pay fines.
  
• NUG formally notifies PTTEP to pay them dividends, arms of possible arbitration.
  
• Five webinars held on 2nd anniversary of Federal Democratic charter to move forward constitution-drafting process.
  

• Regime troops abducted seven civilians including two children who were later decapitated. Junta forces and affiliated militias burned alive a 70- year-old nun, marking the 3000th confirmed civilian death since Feb 202.
• Junta leadership targeted Rakhine State as the stage of their latest propaganda tours.
  
• The junta’s shortsighted economic policies caused Burma’s rice market to spiral into further chaos. Chevron’s exit from Burma spelled significant losses for the regime’s cashflow. Swiss food giant Nestlé announced plans to halt production in Burma citing poor economic conditions.

-Two years after the junta’s illegal attempt at grabbing power, the population continues its resistance, both armed and unarmed – politically, socially, economically.

-There were 9,356 armed clashes and attacks on civilians Feb 2021- Jan 2022; an 820% increase from the preceding year (1,140).

-The junta’s destructive efforts to gain territorial and political control have destroyed Burma’s economy, with unemployment, inflation, and poverty spiraling out of control.