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Fact-finding Mission on Myanmar: concrete and overwhelming information points to international crimes

GENEVA (12 March 2018) – Experts of the UN Fact-finding Mission on Myanmar called on Myanmar authorities Monday to stop dismissing reports that serious human rights violations have been committed in Kachin, Shan and Rakhine states. “The…

The Maldives reprimanded by the international community at the UN Human Rights Council

The Maldives reprimanded by the international community at the UN Human Rights Council (Geneva, 08 March 2018) Today, at the UN Human Rights Council, over 40 States expressed concern over the situation in the Maldives. Speaking jointly, they…

Myanmar and the European Union hold their 4th Human Rights Dialogue

Myanmar and the European Union hold their 4th Human Rights Dialogue Nay Pyi Taw, 5 March 2018 Joint Press Release 1.      The fourth Myanmar-EU Human Rights Dialogue was held in Nay Pyi Taw on 5 March 2018, co-chaired by Minister for…

Equality Myanmar joins the FORB Learning Platform as Associated Member

“A vitally important contribution and a quantum leap for human rights education on freedom of religion or belief”  UN special rapporteur on FORB, Prof Ahmed Shaheed.   The FORB Learning Platform has been globally launched today 6th…

Protesters slam plans to toughen Myanmar public assembly law

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — About 200 people marched in Myanmar’s biggest city on Monday to protest government plans to amend a law governing public demonstrations to make it easier to charge participants with crimes and increase penalties for…

EU-Myanmar civil society dialogue on human rights held on 4th March,2018 in Yangon.

EU-Myanmar civil society dialogue on human rights held on 4th March,2018 in Yangon.The event was organized by European Union in collaboration with Equality Myanmar, Local Resource Center and DCA/NCA. The main objective of this dialogue is…

Human Rights Defenders Network Meeting Commenced its First Meeting for the Year 2018

Human Rights Education Network Meeting was successfully commenced at Feb 26th and Feb 27th in Yangon, Thingagyun Township, Lay Pyay Hotel. Total (30) human rights trainers from human rights education network the different divisions and states…

‘Slaughter of innocence’: Nobel laureates visit Rohingya, call for Suu Kyi’s resignation

THREE Nobel Peace laureates visited Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh on Sunday, in an effort to raise awareness of sexual violence in the conflict. The three women expressed disappointment with their fellow Nobel laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi,…

Bulldozing Rohingya villages was not ‘demolition of evidence,’ official says

Burma has bulldozed the remains of Rohingya Muslim villages to make way for refugee resettlement, not to destroy evidence of atrocities, an official leading reconstruction efforts in the troubled northern state of Rakhine said on Monday. Last…

UN and Myanmar on a collision course

Government’s denial of UN access to Rakhine State’s killing fields will not shield it from renewed sanctions and pariah status As Myanmar descends again into pariah status, it’s loudest critic is perhaps the one that matters most: the…