Human Rights News

US withdraws from UN Human Rights Council

The United States is set to withdraw from the United Nations…

Myanmar: too many children still in hazardous and unsafe forms of work

Yangon (ILO News) – Almost one in ten of Myanmar’s 12 million…

Rohingya Militants Massacred Civilians in Myanmar: Amnesty Report

In one attack last year, Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army abducted…

Myanmar: New evidence reveals Rohingya armed group massacred scores in Rakhine State

22 May 2018, 17:31 UTC A Rohingya armed group brandishing…

‘Slow genocide’: Myanmar’s invisible war on the Kachin Christian minority

114-year-old Supna Hkawn Bu is carried on her grandson’s…

Myanmar riot police break up anti-war protest in Yangon

YANGON (Reuters) – Riot police in Yangon used batons on Saturday…

Eight arrested in Yangon protest for end to Kachin violence

YANGON – At least eight protestors were arrested during a peaceful…

Two Kachin activists to be charged under peaceful assembly law

By HEIN KO SOE and CLARE HAMMOND | FRONTIER YANGON…

Activist Jailed for Streaming Anti-Conflict Drama on Facebook

By SALAI THANT ZIN 8 May 2018 PATHEIN, Irrawaddy Region…

U.N. Myanmar rights envoy calls for halt to violence in Kachin state

GENEVA (Reuters) – The United Nations human rights expert on…