We are writing on behalf of Human Rights Watch in the context of the upcoming summits of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the East Asia Summit, and associated ASEAN partner summits, ...

The ruby, measuring 11,000 carats (2.2 kilograms), was unearthed near the town of Mogok, in the upper Mandalay region, the ...

Exile Hub is one of Global Voices’ partners in Southeast Asia, emerging in response to the 2021 coup in Myanmar, focusing on ...

GENEVA — The U.N.'s leading human rights body agreed Thursday to measures aimed at putting pressure on Myanmar and Iran, whose governments have been accused of using violence against their own people.

The UN Human Rights Council adopted resolutions Thursday to call on UN member states to refrain from supplying jet fuel to the Myanmar military. The council also extended the mandates of the Special ...

Outgoing envoy Tom Andrews calls on world leaders to end cycle of impunity for a military that has brutalized its people for decades.

GENEVA (AP) — A U.N.-backed investigator says his team has turned up significant evidence of “systemic torture” in Myanmar’s detention centers, including electric shocks, strangulations, gang rape and ...

According to the global body, 18.6 million people in Myanmar will need humanitarian assistance in 2024 – a nineteen-fold increase since the 2021 coup. Myanmar’s escalating conflict and the worst ...

(Bangkok) – The Myanmar military’s recruitment and use of child soldiers has surged since the 2021 coup, including a significant number recruited after the junta enacted a conscription law in February ...

US lobbyist Roger Stone, a close confidante of President Donald Trump, for accepting US$50,000 a month to "rebuild" the ...