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Human rights in Myanmar under its military regime have long been regarded as among the worst in the world. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In 2022, Freedom House rated Myanmar’s human rights at 9 out 100 (not free). [ 3 ]
The U.N.’s human rights chief joined a chorus of concern Friday for members of Myanmar’s Muslim Rohingya ethnic minority after many were reported killed in recent fighting between the military ...
The international community must take "targeted action" to restrict the Myanmar junta's access to arms, jet fuel and foreign currency to prevent it from committing "atrocities" against its people ...
The Rohingya genocide is a series of ongoing persecutions and killings of the Muslim Rohingya people by the military of Myanmar.The genocide has consisted of two phases [3] [4] to date: the first was a military crackdown that occurred from October 2016 to January 2017, and the second has been occurring since August 2017. [5]
The office was established in March 1992 by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, in the aftermath of the 1990 Myanmar general election, and continued deterioration in the country's human rights situation under the rule of the military junta, the State Law and Order Restoration Council. [2]
Tens of thousands of Muslim-minority Rohingya, who were feared to be trapped amid fighting in western Myanmar, had nowhere to flee, the United Nations human rights chief said on Tuesday. The ...
International human rights organisations including Human Rights Watch [219] and Amnesty International [220] have repeatedly documented and condemned widespread human rights violations in Myanmar. The Freedom in the World 2011 report by Freedom House notes, "The military junta has ... suppressed nearly all basic rights; and committed human ...
Samson is a prominent advocate of the human rights of the ethnic and religious minorities in Myanmar and in 2019 was part of a delegation that met the U.S. President Trump at the White House to ...