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Transwomen suffer most bias among LGBT: report

Transgender women experience the most discrimination of all LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) people in Myanmar, according to a report released by a non-government group on Tuesday. The two-page report, entitled…

U.N. concerned about heavy fighting in Myanmar’s Kachin state

(This version of the Feb 2 story removes incorrect reference in paragraph 5 that the KIA is part of the ethnic Chinese Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army) By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) – Conflict between Myanmar’s army and…

Myanmar LGBT festival goes public for first time

AFP news agency Published on Jan 29, 2018 SUBSCRIBE 187K With drag queen Olympics, film screenings and a rainbow-clad choir, Myanmar’s LGBT festival comes out for the first time in a public park as the country cautiously moves…

Myanmar LGBT festival goes public for first time

Fluorescent wigs askew and leaving broken stiletto heels and a cloud of glitter in their wake, Myanmar drag queens pounded across the finish line and crashed into a waiting coterie of photographers at a groundbreaking festival. The race and…

UN: ‘Wanted for mass murder’ posters target Myanmar’s top general

“Wanted” pictures of Min Aung Hlaing, the Commander-in-Chief of the Myanmar military who oversaw atrocities against the country’s Rohingya population, were posted around New York overnight, as part of Amnesty International’s campaign…

ASEAN MPs emphasize need for urgent regional action on Rohingya crisis as they conclude fact-finding mission [EN/ID]

DHAKA — At the conclusion of a four-day fact-finding mission, Southeast Asian lawmakers urged their governments to heed calls for action to address the Rohingya crisis, emphasizing that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) needs…

Calls for unhindered access to Rohingya camps ahead of repatriation

MAUNGDAW, Rakhine State — The United Nations on Wednesday called on Burma to give aid agencies unhindered access to camps it has built for tens of thousands of Muslim Rohingya refugees before they can return after fleeing Burmese military…

Refugees more than once, Rohingya fear return to Myanmar

KUTUPALONG REFUGEE CAMP, Bangladesh — Mohammad Younus is a refugee for the second time. The 30-year-old Rohingya Muslim, who has been slowly rebuilding a shadow of a normal life in a sprawling and squalid refugee camp in Bangladesh,…

James Mattis Says Myanmar’s Rohingya Crisis Is Even Worse Than it Looks in the Media

The suffering of Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims is worse than it has been portrayed by the media, Secretary of Defense James Mattis said, countering claims by the government of Aung San Suu Kyi that the international press has been biased…

Exclusive: Richardson quits Myanmar’s ‘whitewash’ Rohingya crisis panel

YANGON (Reuters) – Veteran U.S. diplomat Bill Richardson has resigned from an international panel set up by Myanmar to advise on the Rohingya crisis, saying it was conducting a “whitewash” and accusing the country’s leader Aung San Suu…