Equality Myanmar News

Banned UN Envoy, Rohingya Activists to Join Conference on ‘Myanmar Genocide’

YANGON — The UN’s special envoy on human rights in Myanmar will deliver a keynote address at an international conference in Berlin on Monday to push European leaders to do more for the beleaguered Rohingya. According to a description…

Equality Myanmar has launched its 2018 Training for Trainers (TOT) Training”

Equality Myanmar has started its annual program of Training for Trainers (TOT) training program on February 22nd, 2018. At the opening ceremony of this training, Equality Myanmar Executive Director, U Aung Myo Min, gave his opening speech…

UPR (Universal Periodic Review) Midterm Planning Meeting

“UPR (Universal Periodic Review) Midterm Planning Meeting” was held with members from Burma/Myanmar UPR Forum and some representatives from CSOs in Myanmar for three days, on 13 to15 February at Central Hotel in Myanmar. 30 representatives…

U.S. urges U.N. to hold Myanmar military accountable for ‘ethnic cleansing’

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United States on Tuesday described Myanmar denials of ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims as “preposterous” as it called on the U.N. Security Council to hold the military accountable and pressure leader…

7 Tatmadaw Soldiers to Be Held Accountable for Killing of 10 Muslims in Rakhine

By HTET NAING ZAW 13 February 2018 NAYPYITAW — Sixteen people including seven Tatmadaw soldiers will be held accountable for the killing of 10 Muslim residents of Inn Din village in Rakhine State’s Maungdaw, according to the President’s…

Massacre in Myanmar (A REUTERS SPECIAL REPORT)

How Myanmar forces burned, looted and killed in a remote village On Sept. 2, Buddhist villagers and Myanmar troops killed 10 Rohingya men in Myanmar’s restive Rakhine state. Reuters uncovered the massacre and has pieced together…

MCCAIN, CARDIN BILL ON BURMA ACCOUNTABILITY PASSES SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE

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…

Academics protest plans to publish ‘biased’ Myanmar scholar

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…

Myanmar: Fresh evidence of ongoing ethnic cleansing as military starves, abducts and robs Rohingya

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…

Equality Myanmar has successfully organized “2018 Annual Staff Meeting”

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…