Defying a Dictatorship An Overview of the Human Rights Situation in Burma: July-December 2025 The Network for Human Rights Documentation-Burma (ND-Burma) is deeply grateful to the interviewees for their courage in speaking out against the violations committed against them. We also appreciate our member organizations and fieldworkers, who continue to gather invaluable testimonies at their […]
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 Myanmar18 February 2026Open Letter: The UNHRC Must Reject the Junta’s Sham Election Results to ConsolidateIllegitimate Rule and Advance AccountabilityExcellencies,We, the undersigned 235 Myanmar, regional, and international civil society organizations, […]
The Ta’ang Women’s Organization (TWO) has released a report titled ‘Lives in the Absence of Safety.’This field report documents human rights violations committed by the “terror” military council in northern Shan State from February 1, 2021, to 2024, following the coup d’état. The report highlights severe human rights abuses, the situation in the Ta’ang region […]
LONDON (Reuters) – The first bomb to strike the remote western Myanmar village of Vanha came from a junta warplane. It hit the only school in the hamlet, near the frontline of Myanmar’s civil war. The second came from a drone minutes later. On that day, October 13, 2025, an Iranian tanker was headed home […]
Just four months ago, Timor-Leste formally became a member of the Association of Southeast Asian States (ASEAN). This week, the tiny country took an unprecedented step: its judicial authorities appointed a prosecutor to examine the Myanmar military’s responsibility for war crimes and crimes against humanity. It’s believed to be the first time an ASEAN state has taken such an […]
From 2017 until the end of 2025, developments in Burma/Myanmar related to Transitional Justice (TJ)—within the framework of Truth, Justice, Reparations, and Guarantees of Non-Recurrence—have been studied and documented in chronological order.The Human Rights Network Documentation – Burma (ND-Burma) has compiled and published this report to the best of its capacity.
By Chin Human Rights Organisation and Myanmar Accountability Project Dili, 13 January 2026: A group representing survivors of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the Myanmar junta have presented a criminal complaint to the Public Prosecutor’s Office in Timor-Leste, requesting the opening of an investigation. According to the head of the delegation, Salai […]
Today, January 14, 2026, a delegation from the Chin Human Rights Organization (CHRO), led by Executive Director Salai Za Uk, held a significant one-hour meeting with President José Ramos-Horta at the Presidential Palace in Dili. The delegation provided a comprehensive briefing on the escalating “reign of terror” in Myanmar’s Chin State and across the country. […]
Dili, 12 January 2026: A group representing victims of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the Myanmar junta have presented a criminal complaint to the Public Prosecutor’s Office in Timor-Leste, requesting the opening of an investigation. According to the head of the delegation, Salai Za Uk, Executive Director of the Chin Human Rights […]
In Katha Town, Sagaing Region, where nearly the entire population was displaced by fighting, some residents who briefly returned to collect their belongings were killed in junta airstrikes. Late last year, the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), People’s Defence Force (PDF) under the National Unity Government, the All Burma Students’ Democratic Front (ABSDF), the People’s Liberation […]