Key Points More than 100,000 people displaced in Kachin and northern Shan states The dry season military offensive has brought a fresh wave of violence Aid restrictions are worse than ever, while donor support has dwindled Peace negotiations stall as the conflict is overshadowed by the Rohingya crisis Doi Ra hid with her family in […]
(New York) – The Burmese government’s ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims and its repression of the media and aid operations have severely undermined Burma’s transition to democratic rule in 2017, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2018. The Burmese military’s atrocities in Rakhine State, including summary executions, rape, expulsion, and mass burning of villages, amounted to crimes […]
By MOE MYINT 18 January 2018 A leading Rakhine political party has vowed to launch a parliamentary investigation into a police crackdown on a crowd of protesters, including teenagers, that killed seven people on Tuesday night in Mrauk-U, a popular tourist town in northern Rakhine State. During a meeting with residents on Wednesday evening, the leadership of the Arakan National Party […]
The UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Myanmar, Yanghee Lee, will visit Bangladesh and Thailand from Jan 18, vowing to fulfil her mandate even after the Burmese government’s refusal to work with the UN official. “I am determined to carry on – to the best of my ability – this very important […]
January 17, 2018 State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi expressed condolences yesterday to the victims of the riot that occurred in Mrauk-U, Rakhine State on Tuesday, and pledged to probe the incident, take action against those who violated the law, and restore community peace and the rule of law. She made the remark in […]
THE NEXT 21st Century Panglong Union Peace Conference is supposed to be just a few weeks away, but you wouldn’t know it from the Tatmadaw’s recent behaviour. Extrajudicial killings, disruption of peace meetings, fresh offensives: if you are trying to get people around a table, it’s a strange way to go about it. In recent […]
BANGKOK: Activist Nyo Tun spent 10 years as a political prisoner locked away by Myanmar’s military in the notorious Insein prison, where he endured beatings and other cruelty for his efforts to bring democracy. “The military government was so brutal for many years,” he said of the former junta, which ruled the country for decades until […]
By ZUE ZUE 18 January 2018 YANGON — A report on policies and strategies for promoting gender equality in Myanmar was released in Yangon on Jan. 15. The joint report was produced by the Salween Institute for Public Policy (SI) and Women’s League of Burma (WLB), a coalition of 13 ethnic women’s organizations engaged in promoting women’s […]
A national civil society forum is heading for a confrontation over its decision to defy the Union Peace Dialogue Joint Committee. By NYAN HLAING LYNN | FRONTIER A COMMITTEE representing dozens of civil society groups plans to submit discussion papers to the forthcoming 21st Century Panglong Union Peace Conference after having been unable to do […]
Equality Myanmar (formerly HREIB) is a nongovernmental organization which facilitates a broad range of human rights education and advocacy programs.
