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International human rights organisations including Human Rights Watch, [4] Amnesty International, [5] and the American Association for the Advancement of Science [6] have repeatedly documented and condemned widespread human rights violations in Myanmar.
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 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]
Human rights violations against the Rohingya are not only confined to Myanmar and Bangladesh. The status of the Rohingya is unrecognised in most South-east Asian countries. Although they do not receive the same persecution in countries such as Malaysia and Thailand, than in Myanmar, they are subjected to exclusions and poverty.
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 ...
A prominent Christian church leader and human rights advocate from Myanmar’s Kachin ethnic minority was detained by the authorities just hours after he was released from prison under an amnesty ...
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar is a United Nations Special Rapporteur whose mandate is to monitor and investigate human rights violations in Myanmar. The incumbent Special Rapporteur is Thomas Andrews, who was appointed to the role in May 2020, succeeding Yanghee Lee. [1]
Lawyers representing critics of Myanmar’s military government face harassment and attacks ranging from threats and arrests to unfair trials and even torture, a human rights organization charged ...