The violence inflicted for years in minority areas comes to the central heartland. Updated on March 10, 2025 at 1:39 p.m. ET Read RFA coverage of this topic in Burmese. Myanmar soldiers on a sweep through a central village known for its support of anti-junta forces killed 11 civilians, most of them too old to […]
On International Women’s Day, the Network for Human RightsDocumentation – Burma Calls for the Recognition of Women’s Contributions to the Pro-Democracy Movement 8 March 2025 For Immediate Release On International Women’s Day, the Network for Human Rights Documentation – Burma (ND-Burma) calls for the international community to recognize the resilience of women in the country’s […]
Former UN rights rapporteur explains court must remain impartial in lawsuit that accuses Myanmar of Rohingya genocide. Tomas Ojea Quintana is a human rights lawyer who served as U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar between 2008 and 2014. He represents the Burmese Rohingya Organization U.K., which filed a case in an Argentine court […]
Myanmar’s air force bombed a wedding party for two pro-democracy fighters on Tuesday, killing at least 10 people, members of the anti-junta force in the Magway region told Radio Free Asia. It was not immediately clear if the bride and groom, both members of an insurgent People’s Defense Force, or PDF, in Myaing township were among the […]
25 February 2025 On 13 February 2025, a Federal Criminal Court in Argentina ordered arrest warrants for 25 Myanmar military leaders and civilian government officials, including junta chief Min Aung Hlaing, former President U Htin Kyaw, and State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. We, Progressive Voice, welcome the Court’s decision. We understand that the […]
To: Member and Observer States of the UN Human Rights CouncilCC: UN High Commissioner for Human RightsUN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar 20 February 2025 Open letter: UN Human Rights Council must take concrete action to support the Myanmar people’s efforts to build a rights-protecting future Your Excellencies, […]
Report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights* In the present report, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) identifies examples of good practices and lessons learned related to transitional justice processes in the context of sustaining peace and sustainable development, notably Sustainable Development Goal […]
အသွင်ကူးပြောင်းရေးကာလတရားမျှတမှု (TJ) ၏ လုပ်ငန်းစဥ် တခုမှာ အတိတ်မှ ဆိုးရွားသည့် အကြီးအကျယ် လူ့အခွင့်အရေးချိုးဖောက်မှုများ ထပ်မံမဖြစ်ပွားစေရေးအတွက် အာမခံခြင်း (Guarantees of non-recurrence) ဖြစ်သည်။ အတိတ်မှ ဆိုးရွားကြမ်းကြုတ် ရက်စက်မှုများ ထပ်မံမဖြစ်ပွားစေရေးအတွက် ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေ အပါအဝင် မတရား ဖိနှိပ်သည့် ဥပဒေများ၊ တရားဥပဒေစိုးမိုးရန် တာဝန်ရှိသည့် ရဲတပ်ဖွဲ့၊ အကျဥ်းဦးစီးဌာနကဲ့သို့ ဌာနဆိုင်ရာ အဖွဲ့အစည်းများ ပြုပြင်ပြောင်းလဲခြင်း၊ နိင်ငံတော် ကာကွယ်ရေးအတွက် တာဝန်ရှိသည့် စစ်တပ်ကဲ့သို့ လက်နက်ကိုင် တပ်ဖွဲ့များ ပြုပြင်ပြောင်းလဲခြင်းများကို ဆောင်ကြသည့် “အဖွဲ့အစည်းဆိုင်ရာ ပြုပြင် ပြောင်းလဲရေး” (Institutional Reform) လုပ်ငန်းများဖြင့် ဆောင်ရွက်ကြသည်။ အဖွဲ့အစည်းဆိုင်ရာ ပြုပြင်ပြောင်းလဲခြင်း သည် TJ လုပ်ငန်းစဥ် ၄ ခုအနက်မှ အနာဂတ်အတွက် ရည်ရွယ်၍ […]
1 February 2025 – Four years since the military’s failed coup in February 2021, the people of Myanmar’s resistance against the junta’s brutal rule has not only persisted but intensified. The Transitional Justice Asia Network (TJAN), a regional hub of transitional justice experts which includes the Network for Human Rights Documentation – Burma (ND-Burma) as one […]
Pressure is building on Myanmar’s military regime to hold national elections that opposition forces have promised to disrupt. Myanmar’s 2024 census was almost certainly the most contentious – and deadly – ever conducted. Enumerators and their heavily armed guards from Myanmar’s military were subject to repeated attacks from opposition groups, as they stumbled through a […]