Myanmar human rights

According to the global body, 18.6 million people in Myanmar will need humanitarian assistance in 2024 – a nineteen-fold increase since the 2021 coup.

The resistance group said that the public "is not required to comply" with the February 10 order.

The 2022 U.N. Security Council resolution has not become the hoped-for on-ramp to stronger action, but rather the feeble peak of council activity on a country in harrowing crisis.

The complaint, filed by the advocacy group Fortify Rights, requested an investigation into military atrocities committed since 2016.

There is an urgent need for a comprehensive and coordinated global arms embargo.

A group of Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh recently visited Myanmar’s Rakhine State to lay the groundwork for repatriation. Is Myanmar serious about the effort? 

If Myanmar's revolution is to succeed, it must tackle the patriarchal structures that underpin the country's militarized political culture.

In the wake of World War II, the world made a promise "never again" to stand aloof from mass atrocities. That commitment is on the line in Myanmar.

The attack is part of the military government's escalating use of air strikes to smash the growing resistance to its rule.

There is mounting evidence that the military administration has lost its hold on the country.

Victims were reportedly decapitated, amputated, and disemboweled in a grisly incident in Sagaing Region.

A report from the U.N. Human Rights Office claims that conflict has affected 80 percent of the country's 330 townships over the past two years.