Equality Myanmar News

Myanmar Urged to Work With UN Rights Process Rather Than Resist Scrutiny

Rights groups are urging Myanmar to work with international bodies to address allegations of rights abuse and failures to reform rather than rebut the accusations at the U.N. Human Rights Council in the run-up to the Southeast Asian country’s…

Police Question Witnesses in Alleged Myanmar Army Rape of Grandmother in Rakhine

Police in western Myanmar’s volatile Rakhine state investigating the rape of an ethnic Rakhine woman during military operations in her village last week have summoned witnesses to provide their accounts of the alleged assault, a township administrator…

COVID-19 lockdown in Myanmar exposes precarious position of LGBTQI population

In Myanmar, the COVID-19 lockdown has laid bare the stigmatization, discrimination and harassment faced by many LGBTQI people, particularly in rural areas. The United Nations is working to support those people. When the first case of COVID-19…

Announcement for extension of work from home period

Announcement for extension of work from home period Date: 23-April-2020 Equality Myanmar has been postponed all the activities from 23 March to 30 April, 2020 and all the staff have been working from home according request of government. As…

Myanmar lockdown leads to rise in domestic violence

NAYPYIDAW: Domestic violence is on the rise in Myanmar as community lockdowns are imposed on some areas to curb the spread of Covid-19 over the last two weeks. Daw Htar Htar, founder of the Akhaya Women Myanmar organisation, said there had…

Myanmar: Immediately lift ban on ethnic news websites

Myanmar’s decision to block access to ethnic news websites violates the right to freedom of expression, ARTICLE 19 said today. Over the past two weeks, the Ministry of Transport and Communications (‘MOTC’) has directed telecommunications…

Human rights Talk in Dala, Yangon Division

Human rights awareness talk was held in Dala, Yangon Division on 11 March with the aims to raise awareness on basic human rights issues, violations cases and reporting strategy. After the talk, one of the seminar participants Oak Soe Khant…

Freedom of Belief and Religion -Training of Trainer (TOT)

Equality Myanmar inaugurated “Freedom of Belief and Religion -Training of Trainer (TOT)” on March 16, 2020 at Yangon Hotel. The training will be carried on from March 16-20, 2020. The Yangon parliament representative U Nay Bone Latt said,…

ICCPR Workshop on Effective Strategy Development and Cooperation

On 26th February at Esperado Lake View, Yangon, the ICCPR workshop was conducted to draw effective strategy and cooperation for the earliest ratification of the ICCPR by the Myanmar government. Including members of ICCPR Myanmar Action Group,…

Policy Review Workshop

EQUALITY MYANMAR organization held a policy review workshop at Classic Strand Condo in Yangon from 27th to 28th . EQMM Executive Director U Aung Myo Min said that “The workshop aims not only to review EQMM existing policies to be amended…