Two years after the Arakan Army, an ethnic armed group, killed and wounded hundreds of Rohingya Muslims and burned down their ...

BANGKOK--Human rights activists are lobbying major jewelers to stop buying gems sourced in Myanmar as a way to exert pressure ...

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, ...

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.

As hurricanes, strikes and the ever-shifting geopolitical ground continue to hold the apparel and footwear supply chain in the grip of sustained chaos, deteriorating labor conditions in civil-war-torn ...

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 ...

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 ...

The 2022 U.N. Security Council resolution has not become the hoped-for on-ramp to stronger action, but rather the feeble peak of council activity on a country in harrowing crisis. In the early morning ...

Miners in Myanmar have discovered a massive ruby, considered to be the second-largest by weight ever found in the country ...

Human Rights Watch reports the Arakan Army killed hundreds of Rohingya Muslims in a 2024 massacre in Myanmar's Rakhine State. Survivors are now unable to return home and are effectively detained by ...