5 April 2018 Yangon, Myanmar Dear Mark, We listened to your Vox interview with great interest and were glad to hear of your personal concern and engagement with the situation in Myanmar. As representatives of Myanmar civil society organizations and the people who raised the Facebook Messenger threat to your team’s attention, we were surprised […]
5 April 2018 Yangon, Myanmar Dear Mark, We listened to your Vox interview with great interest and were glad to hear of your personal concern and engagement with the situation in Myanmar. As representatives of Myanmar civil society organizations and the people who raised the Facebook Messenger threat to your team’s attention, we were surprised […]
WASHINGTON — The government of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is opening the economy and growth is rebounding in Myanmar, though the possibility of broader Western sanctions over the Rohingya refugee crisis is nevertheless giving some foreign investors pause, according to a senior IMF official. Shanaka Jay Peiris, the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) mission chief […]
By LAWI WENG 3 April 2018 More than 150 rights groups have asked the government and the Myanmar Army (or Tatmadaw) to release a former child soldier who was last month sentenced to two years in prison with hard labor for discussing with the media his forced recruitment into the army and subsequent history of legal problems. […]
HTIKE NANDA WIN 03 APR 2018 Several Myanmar civil society organisations (CSOs) will submit for the first time a Universal Periodic Review (UPR) midterm report to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) by June 2018, according to CSO executives. The review is a unique mechanism of the UNHRC aimed at improving the human rights situation on […]
11 recommendations will be submitted to the Human Rights Council for the second cycle mid-term report by the human rights activists in Myanmar. The recommendations will be included in the second cycle mid-term to be released in June this year. The recommendations include the freedom of expression, international cooperation, violence against women during the armed […]
Equality Myanmar (formerly HREIB) is a nongovernmental organization which facilitates a broad range of human rights education and advocacy programs.
