4 April 2025 Myanmar: Human Rights Council condemns the junta, responds to the earthquake, and calls to end sale and supply of arms and jet fuel UN Security Council must follow up urgently to address the crisis The consensus adoption of the latest resolution on Myanmar at the 58th session of the UN Human Rights […]
An armed resistance movement against Myanmar’s military-run government criticised the junta on Sunday for conducting airstrikes on villages even as the country reels from an earthquake that has killed around 1,700 people. The Karen National Union, one of Myanmar’s oldest ethnic armies, said in a statement the junta “continues to carry out airstrikes targeting civilian areas, even […]
30 March 2025 Press Statement: Civil society calls for disaster relief for earthquake survivors and affected communities in Myanmar Aid agencies must ensure relief is not exploited by the military junta We—the undersigned 265 Myanmar, regional, and international civil society organizations—express our deepest sorrow for communities across Myanmar and Thailand devastated by the earthquake on […]
Today, the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners launches its new report, highlighting the inherently repressive colonial legislation that has been amended, enacted and weaponized by the junta to systematically commit a campaign of terror and ongoing human rights violations against the people of Burma. “The military junta is weaponizing its unjust law, using its interrogation […]
Displaced residents are in critical need of clean water and medicine, aid workers said. Read RFA coverage of these topics in Burmese. Junta attacks on Thursday claimed four lives in northwest Myanmar, where tens of thousands displaced residents remain in desperate need of emergency aid, volunteers and locals told Radio Free Asia. The offensives in the embattled Sagaing […]
To: United Nations Secretary-GeneralUnited Nations General Assembly Open letter: Special Envoy’s conflicts of interest signal urgent need for investigation and complete end of mandate 17 March 2025 We—the undersigned 290 Myanmar, regional, and international civil society organizations—call on United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres to urgently open an investigation into conflicts of interest over the business […]
Attacks in Shan state and Mandalay region aimed at civilians, rebels say. Myanmar’s military killed 40 civilians, including Buddhist monks and children, in airstrikes in northern Myanmar as it tries to pound its enemies into submission, insurgents told Radio Free Asia on Monday. Myanmar’s rising toll of civilian casualties comes as a humanitarian crisis is […]
To: United Nations Secretary-General United Nations General Assembly Open letter: Special Envoy’s conflicts of interest signal urgent need for investigation and complete end of mandate 17 March 2025 We—the undersigned 290 Myanmar, regional, and international civil society organizations—call on United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres to urgently open an investigation into conflicts of interest over the […]
Amid fighting in Rakhine state, immediate ‘dignified return’ for refugees is difficult, he says. DHAKA, Bangladesh — The United Nations is discussing the possibility of a humanitarian aid corridor to Myanmar from Bangladesh in an effort to create equitable conditions for Rohingya refugees to eventually return, the U.N. chief said in Dhaka on Saturday. However, […]
Today, 14 March 2025, Rodrigo Roa Duterte (“Mr Duterte”) appeared before Pre-Trial Chamber I (“the Chamber”) of the International Criminal Court (“ICC” or “Court”). Mr Duterte is suspected of the crime against humanity of murder, allegedly committed in the Republic of the Philippines (“the Philippines”) between 1 November 2011 and 16 March 2019. The Chamber […]