Human Rights News

Oral update by Ms. Yanghee Lee, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar at the 38th session of the Human Rights Council

27 June 2018 Mr President, distinguished representatives,…

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…