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It remains unclear whether the factory workers among the detainees, who were dismissed after requesting a pay increase, will be able to return to their jobs
A group of workers and their supporters, who were arrested after demanding higher wages in the garment industry earlier this year, (...)
This August 25, we, Women’s Peace Network, remember the victims and survivors of the 2017 attacks of genocide against Rohingya in Arakan, and call for justice and accountability for them and the end to all forms of impunity in Myanmar.
In Bangladesh, where Rohingya refugees — victims and (...)
Another gruesome milestone was reached on Wednesday: My organization [the Assistance Association of Political Prisoners Burma] has collected and published the names of at least 4,000 people killed by junta troops and Pyu Saw Hti militiamen since the post-coup crackdowns began in February 2021. (...)
Defense Forces (PDFs)—the armed wings of the civilian National Unity Government (NUG)—and ethnic armed organizations escalated their assaults on junta troops and targets, often in unison
Daily attacks hit regime targets in almost every corner of Myanmar in July as People’s .
Armed wings of (...)
Five major French banks and a pension fund from the country have been accused of fueling the Myanmar junta’s widespread and systematic human rights violations through their business links to the regime.
On Thursday, rights groups Justice for Myanmar (JFM), Info Birmanie and BankTrack (...)
Faced with escalating diplomatic isolation, Myanmar’s military regime is promoting ties with countries in the Middle East in an attempt to expand beyond its current allies China, Russia and India.
On Wednesday, junta boss Min Aung Hlaing held phone talks with Kuwaiti Prime Minister Sheikh (...)
The Chin National Army (CNA) attacked Myanmar junta troops in Paletwa Township in southern Chin State on Monday, according to sources.
It was the first military operation by the CNA in Paletwa, which borders Rakhine State, said a Paletwa resident.
A resident of Shin Letwa village tract (...)
The arrests have reportedly prompted the owner of retailer Zara to plan its exit from the military-run country.
Seven Burmese garment workers and union activists will face trial on incitement charges in a military court for advocating for a pay raise at a factory that supplied Inditex, the (...)
Myanmar’s civilian National Unity Government has appointed the Rohingya activist U Aung Kyaw Moe as its deputy human rights minister.
U Aung Kyaw Moe has been a rights adviser to the ministry for almost two years.
“I am proud to have the opportunity to work more for the country and the (...)
The post-coup economic crisis has rattled the fishery sector, pushing many fishermen to pack up their poles and seek risky work abroad, while businesses shutter or fish for new buyers – but few are taking the bait.
Ko Myat Thar packs his bags and says his goodbyes to family and friends in (...)
The ousted civilian leader was arrested by the regime on the first day of the coup in February 2021 and is currently being held in Naypyitaw prison.
She has been sentenced by a military council court to a total of 33 years in prison in 19 cases.
Resistance fighters in Sagaing’s Khin-U (...)
More than 3,000 civilians from eight villages in Sagaing Region’s Salingyi Township have fled their homes since Myanmar junta troops began torching civilian homes on Friday evening, after local resistance forces attacked a police station in Nyaung Pin Gyi Village.
Union Liberation Front and (...)
A group led by a human rights lawyer has asked Israel’s attorney general to investigate allegations that Israeli arms manufacturer CAA Industries along with defense and foreign ministry officials have aided and abetted the Myanmar military’s crimes against humanity.
Eitay Mack filed the (...)
Foreign investment in Myanmar fell 60 percent in the first quarter of this year compared to the same quarter in 2022, according to figures from the Directorate of Investment and Company Administration (DICA) under the junta’s Ministry for Investment and Foreign Economic Relations.
In the (...)
Review of Stalemate: Autonomy And Insurgency On The China-Myanmar Border By Andrew Ong Cornell University Press, 2023 US$29.95, 276 pages
While civil war rages across many parts of Myanmar, there is one corner of the country which seems largely unaffected by the tragic developments (...)
Ethnic-minority communities in remote and impoverished areas of northern Rakhine State said they need humanitarian assistance for rehabilitation after Cyclone Mocha devastated their communities last month.
Inhabited predominantly by ethnic Rakhine people, Myanmar’s westernmost state is also (...)
Sagaing Region has seen some of the strongest and most widespread resistance to the Myanmar military’s February 2021 attempted coup. In the face of the ongoing crisis in Sagaing, where villagers have been subjected to fear, violence and destruction of their villages at the hands of the (...)
On 1 February 2021, the day Myanmar’s military launched an early morning raid to arrest key politicians and seize political power, a seemingly innocuous post appeared on a Facebook group devoted to Myanmar agriculture. Memifed with bright blue colours and large font, the text read: “I’m (...)
On May 19, 2023, as a civil society member, Wai Wai Nu spoke at the United Nations Security Council Arria-Formula Meeting on Myanmar before Member States of the Council, ASEAN, ASEAN Dialogue Partners, and bordering countries.
I thank the United Kingdom for convening this Arria-Formula (...)
Cyclone Mocha left a trail of devastation in the Bangladesh refugee camps and Rakhine State according to a press conference held today by Women’s Peace Network, and led by members of the affected communities in Bangladesh’s Kutupalong refugee camp and Rakhine State’s Maungdaw and Sittwe (...)
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