The Students and Youth Congress of Burma (SYCB) is an umbrella organization of students and youth organizations of various ethnic backgrounds. Its members come from all different regions of Burma. The SYCB is based on the Indo-Burma border and Thailand-Burma border and it was founded in New Delhi on January 8th, 1996. The SYCB aims to increase and promote understanding and cooperation among the many different ethnic nationalities of Burma and their youth and student organizations. It also struggles for the reinstatement of democracy, the restoration of human rights and the establishment of a federal union in Burma.
In this time of struggle, the SYCB works together ideas, to build trust and mutual understanding, to build the skills of its members, and to acquire knowledge about the best way to bring about the political, economic, and social reconstruction of the country.
SYCB is composed of sixteen student and youth organizations from the Indo-Burma and Thailand-Burma border, and it represents different ethnic nationalities of Burma. The following organizations are members of SYCB:
