Myanmar civil society groups and anti-death penalty advocates across Asia have launched a campaign seeking royal clemency for two Myanmar migrant workers recently sentenced to death by a Thai court. The Asia-wide campaign was launched on Thursday at the Asian People Forum held at Thammasat University in Bangkok. Thailand’s Supreme Court on August 29 upheld the […]
(New York) – Myanmar’s armed forces and the three ethnic armed groups fighting in northern Shan State should safeguard civilians, Human Rights Watch said today. Renewed fighting since August 15, 2019 has resulted in the deaths of at least 17 civilians and injured 27, many of them women and children, according to the United Nations. Approximately 7,500 […]
After years of discussion and debate, Myanmar has finally enacted a law to protect the rights of children. Consistent with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which Myanmar has ratified, the law defines a child as anyone younger than 18 and provides all children born in Myanmar have the right to […]
14 August 20191.5K11 A probe into the death of a gay Myanmar man which cast a spotlight on the marginalised community concluded he was “mentally weak,” findings slammed Wednesday by his heartbroken family who blamed bullying at work. Kyaw Zin Win, a 26-year-old librarian at Myanmar Imperial University, took his own life in June. His final social […]
A national level coordination meeting under Rights for All project jointly implemented by Equality Myanmar, Local Resource Centre and DCA-NCA is being held at Green Hill Hotel in Yangon on 6th August 2019. The overall objective of the coordination meeting is to support stronger collaboration and cooperation for sharing information and discussing a wide range […]
UN Fact-Finding Mission Urges Sanctions on Military Enterprises Shayna Bauchner Assistant Researcher, Asia Division The United Nations-mandated Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar released a new report earlier today detailing the Myanmar military’s longstanding but opaque web of control over the country’s economy. The mission urged the international community to take immediate steps to financially isolate the military. The 111-page report […]
Bangkok, Thailand 27th June 2019 We are shocked and deeply saddened to receive the news from our friends and colleagues in Myanmar that Kyaw Zin Win, serving as librarian at Myanmar Imperial University – MIU, committed suicide in Yangon after being forcibly outed, harassed and bullied by co-workers in a brutal case of discrimination and […]
By Beh Lih Yi KUALA LUMPUR, June 26 (Openly) – A Myanmar university said on Wednesday it had suspended three staff while it investigates the suicide of a gay employee who said he was bullied at work in social media posts widely shared in the conservative Asian country. Kyaw Zin Win, a librarian in his […]
YANGON—The Myanmar National Human Rights Commission (MNHRC) said it will release a report on its investigation next month of the suicide of Myanmar librarian Ko Kyaw Zin Win, who took his life in the last week of June after homophobic bullying from coworkers. The commission began its investigation on June 28, saying at the time it would […]
25 July 2019 We, the 24 organizations of the CSO Working Group on MNHRC Reform, call on the Selection Board to engage in a public, transparent and inclusive selection process to determine the next commissioners of the Myanmar National Human Rights Commission’s (MNHRC) when the current commissioners’ terms end in September 2019. Given Myanmar’s myriad […]
Equality Myanmar (formerly HREIB) is a nongovernmental organization which facilitates a broad range of human rights education and advocacy programs.
