Feb 07 2018 Washington, D.C. – The Senate Foreign Relations Committee today passed legislation authored by U.S. Senators John McCain (R-AZ), Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Ben Cardin (D-MD), a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, to impose targeted sanctions and travel restrictions on senior Burmese military officials responsible for human rights atrocities […]
Over 80 academics and activists say they are “disturbed” at plans by Oxford University Press to publish a paper about the Rohingya by an author who they allege is “biased” and has “close links” to Myanmar’s brutal military. The prestigious publishing house has commissioned a Luxembourg academic, Dr Jacques Leider, to write a reference article […]
7 February 2018, 17:31 UTC The Myanmar security forces’ devastating campaign against the Rohingya population in northern Rakhine State is far from over, Amnesty International said today, as it published new evidence of ongoing violations that have forced hundreds more people to flee in recent weeks. In late January 2018, the organization interviewed 19 newly arrived Rohingya […]
Equality Myanmar has successfully organized “2018 Annual Staff Meeting” on 5-6, February, at Panda Hotel in Yangon Myanmar. Aung Myo Min, Executive Director of Equality Myanmar, has stated that meeting is “the current situation of human rights in Myanmar is becoming more complicated and there are other dangers which are disturbing our core culture of […]
Transgender women experience the most discrimination of all LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) people in Myanmar, according to a report released by a non-government group on Tuesday. The two-page report, entitled “Baseline Assessment Report on Promotion of Human Rights and Rule of Law for LGBT Community in Yangon” also noted that while Myanmar society has […]
(This version of the Feb 2 story removes incorrect reference in paragraph 5 that the KIA is part of the ethnic Chinese Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army) By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) – Conflict between Myanmar’s army and guerrillas of the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) in northern Myanmar has escalated since Jan. 19, including in […]
Seoul, 1 February 2018 Thank you for the opportunity to address you this afternoon. It is quite unusual for me to hold this press conference here, in a country not related to my mandate as Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar. However, these are unusual circumstances in the discharge of my mandate. […]
AFP news agency Published on Jan 29, 2018 SUBSCRIBE 187K With drag queen Olympics, film screenings and a rainbow-clad choir, Myanmar’s LGBT festival comes out for the first time in a public park as the country cautiously moves towards more tolerance.
Fluorescent wigs askew and leaving broken stiletto heels and a cloud of glitter in their wake, Myanmar drag queens pounded across the finish line and crashed into a waiting coterie of photographers at a groundbreaking festival. The race and other games including handbag throwing were some of the highlights of the “&Proud” festival, which took […]
Equality Myanmar (formerly HREIB) is a nongovernmental organization which facilitates a broad range of human rights education and advocacy programs.
