Members of the Karenni National Women’s Organization take part in a team-building exercise in an undisclosed region of Karenni State, Myanmar, January 2023.

Karenni (Kayah) State is a small state situated in eastern Myanmar, with an approximate population of 300,000. Another estimated 120,000 Karenni people live in the Pekhon township area to the ...

Karenni State, known as Kayah, a beautiful mountainous region in eastern Myanmar, has become a powerful symbol of resistance and resilience in the country's fight for democracy and federalism.

Young Karenni refugees, Lah Yu and Htoo Ree, are settling into life in Mount Gambier after life in a Thai refugee camp. Lah Yu, 18, and her four brothers and sisters were born in the same refugee ...

A Karenni child carries a pail in a camp for internally displaced people in Kayah state, eastern Myanmar, in July 2022. Many people in the region were forced to flee their villages when fighting ...

Karenni, sometimes called Red Karen, are an ethnic group from South East Asia that the British government recognized as independent in 1875. But the Karenni States became swallowed up by the ...