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Civil Society Groups Highlight Continued Abuses During UN Visit

By SAN YAMIN AUNG 18 January 2017 RANGOON— During a meeting with the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Burma Yanghee Lee, civil society groups highlighted the continuation of human rights abuses despite the country’s recent reforms The…

International Human Rights Day Event

We would like to invite you to our International Human Rights Day event. Against the backdrop of intolerance, hatred, and separatism plaguing Myanmar and the world, we stand for building a peaceful, inclusive, and sustainable future. Therefore,…

Myanmar’s abused, intimidated LGBT people long for acceptance in new era

YANGON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When police in Myanmar’s biggest city Yangon arrested Chew Su Khin, a young transgender woman, for the third time in a year, they removed her hair extensions and set them on fire, stripped her…

Youth Advocates Urge Lawmaker Participation in Child Rights Forum

RANGOON — Burmese children’s rights advocates and appointed children’s representatives called on parliamentarians to participate in the upcoming National Children’s Forum in Naypyidaw, during which they hope that new laws and policies…

EU demurs on new UN human rights resolution for Myanmar

By SEAN GLEESON | FRONTIER YANGON — For the first time in 25 years, the European Union has decided not to table a human rights resolution directed at Myanmar in the United Nations General Assembly, saying the government had taken “bold…

Lifting the lid on child sex abuse

The sexual abuse of children is widespread in Myanmar but attempts to increase the penalty for child rapists have twice ended in failure. By CHERRY THEIN | FRONTIER THE SEXUAL abuse of children rarely makes the news in Myanmar, because most…

Human Rights Commission, its law and the people’s conscience

By Aung Myo Min On Friday, 14 October 2016 On October 6, the President’s Office issued a notice saying the human rights commission had let four of its members, Zaw Win, Dr. Nyan Zaw, Mya Mya and Dr.Than New, voluntarily resign from their…

Beaten and burnt: Myanmar’s exploited and invisible child slaves

San Kay Khine stares at her burnt, scarred hands, her twisted fingers a reminder of her years as a child slave in Myanmar, one of thousands of young domestic workers feared to be at risk of exploitation and abuse. The 17-year-old was rescued…

Rangoon Family Who ‘Enslaved’ Girls for Years Settle Case for $4,000

Scars on their arms, fingers, neck, face and feet illustrate how two teenaged girls were tortured for five years while being forced into domestic servitude in a downtown Rangoon household in Kyauktada Township. Ma San Kay Khaing, 17, and…

The 100-day plan for street children

The government has revealed plans for big care centres for street children and other homeless people, but civil society groups lament a lack of cooperation from officials in addressing the problem. By CHERRY THEIN | FRONTIER STREET CHILDREN…