Myanmar

The United Nations’ independent investigator into human rights in Myanmar has called for international pressure on China and Russia to…

Two Reuters journalists were remanded in custody for another fortnight by a Myanmar court on Wednesday, following their first public…

A quarter of Rohingya children under the age of five who fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar suffer from potentially life-threatening…

Rather than bend “the knee in supplication,” UN human rights chief Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein has told staff he will not…

The UN independent investigator into human rights in Myanmar has been barred from visiting the country for the rest of…

Two Reuters journalists completed a week in detention in Myanmar on Tuesday, with no word on where they were being…

Human Rights Watch slams Myanmar’s continued destruction of villages, calls repatriation deal a PR stunt. Separately, two journalists are facing…

Never before have so many people been on the move, migrating in search of jobs and security. Large numbers are…

At least 6,700 Rohingya Muslims were killed in the first month of a Myanmar army crackdown on rebels in Rakhine…

The arrest of two Reuters journalists in Yangon this week was a signal that press freedom is shrinking in Myanmar…