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    29 Search results for ""mental health""

    Crime Lead Story News

    Suspect in attack on Suu Kyi home to face trial regardless of mental health

    The Yangon Police Force has announced that the suspected perpetrator of an attack in which a petrol bomb was hurled at State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi’s residence in Yangon will be prosecuted regardless of his medical condition.

    Health Lead Story News

    CSOs left to plug mental healthcare gap for former political prisoners

    Former political prisoners are still locked in a battle against depression and anxiety – the aftermath of decades of imprisonment and isolation.

    Feature Health Lead Story

    Lacking support, Burma’s mental health patients suffer in silence

    Mental health patients—many of them victims of junta-era repression—suffer in silence due to cultural stigma and a lack of psychological health care.

    Lead Story News Yangon

    Man who tossed petrol bomb at Suu Kyi’s residence sentenced to five years in prison

    A man charged with throwing a petrol bomb into the compound of State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi earlier this year has been sentenced to five years’ imprisonment. Win Naing, 48, was found guilty by a court in Yangon’s Bahan Township.

    Features Lead Story Refugees

    Living in limbo: Indonesia’s refugees face uncertain future

    Many refugees across Southeast Asia have no access to citizenship and few rights in the country where they live.

    Lead Story News

    Upheaval in Tanai as treasures below and message from above converge

    No one here thought that leaflets could destroy riches and their possessors’ future plans so quickly. But in Burma, leaflets are not only capable of doing that — they can lead to death.

    Karen Lead Story News Refugees

    Karen refugee advocates flag lack of planning on repatriation

    The concerns of ethnic Karen refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) were raised on Tuesday, World Refugee Day, over the lack of a clear plan for the return and reintegration of those going back to their homelands.

    Analysis Contributor Lead Story Opinion

    Rethinking Burma’s waterways through Foucault’s biopolitics

    Perspectives on Burma’s waterways have been polarised into two competing positions: focusing on developing its vast hydropower potential and advocating for local communities’ needs and concerns.

    Lead Story News Rohingya

    Burma’s interfaith community condemns Ohio attack

    The 18-year-old Somali immigrant was apparently driven to rage by reports of atrocities against Burma’s ethnic Rohingya community.

    Drugs Lead Story News

    Govt should change tack on addicts, say experts

    The NLD’s ongoing narcotics crackdown has caught many drug addicts, but health experts say they should be treated as patients, not punished.

    Ethnic issues Lead Story News Women's Issues

    Women face new challenges as conflict cools, report finds

    After decades of conflict, women in former war zones along Burma’s borders continue to struggle with unequal treatment, a new report finds.

    Human Rights Lead Story News

    For Gambira, another long-awaited release

    The former monk Ashin Gambira, a leading figure in the 2007 Saffron Revolution, stepped out of prison today after serving what will hopefully be his last sentence.

    Lead Story News Politics

    Gambira indicted on immigration charge

    Ashin Gambira, one of Burma’s most well-known dissidents, has been formally indicted at a Mandalay court six weeks after his arrest.

    Health Lead Story News

    HIV-affected children shunned in education

    When her father died of AIDS in 2003, Pyae Phu Khaing* was just three years old, and only two years later her mother died of the same disease.

    Lead Story News Politics

    Gambira denied bail at first hearing

    During the first hearing, Robert San Aung tried to get bail for his client on health grounds, as there is no proper psychiatric healthcare in prison, but the request was refused by the judge.

    Feature Health Lead Story News Students

    Breaking the silence on youth depression in Burma

    Despite soaring depression rates, mental health remains a foreign concept to many young people in Burma.

    Culture Feature Health Lead Story News

    Age-old tonic for Burma’s ailing healthcare system

    Could Burmese traditional medicine fill the gap left by decades of underfunding and neglect?

    Land Lead Story News Protest

    Imprisoned hunger striker sent to psychiatric hospital

    A farmer who was imprisoned in Maubin prison for the murder of a policeman during land rights protests in 2013 has been sent to a psychiatric hospital.

    Karen armed groups united to combat illicit drugs video

    Drugs Ethnic issues Lead Story News Video

    Karen armed groups united to combat illicit drugs

    Leaders from six Karen armed groups have formed a task force in order to combat drug production and use in the east Burmese state.

    Analysis Contributor Ethnic issues Lead Story News Uncategorized

    Poverty: a pressing human rights issue for the Chin

    Why is poverty such a huge problem in Chin State? Rachel Fleming of Chin Human Rights Organization (CHRO) examines the causes and potential solutions from a human rights perspective.

    News Politics

    Displaced persons in desperate need of food: report

    After fleeing from the violence at the frontlines of Kachin state’s civil war, local citizens displaced along the Chinese border are finding themselves challenged to meet even basic standards of living

    Features

    No peace without justice in Kachin state

    Despite Thein Sein’s repeated promises to end the conflict and recent moves to include the army in ceasefire negotiations, the president has still made no effort to hold the army to account for alleged abuses

    News Politics

    Jailed monk Gambira ‘beaten, suffering fits’

    Ashin Gambira, who is three years into a 63-year sentence, in declining health after suffering ‘daily’ abuse at the hands of prison guards

    News Politics

    Doubts over Australia ‘war criminal’ claims

    Acquaintances of Htoo Htoo Han in Australia say claims that he committed war crimes are false and part of an anti-govt strategy

    News Politics

    Australia polls force refugees into spotlight

    42 Rohingya asylum-seekers continue their detention in Australia as elections in the country highlight the explosive issue of immigration

    News Politics

    Murder charge for ‘Rangoon bomber’

    Phyo Wei Aung facing a raft of charges for the deadly Rangoon grenade attacks as wife claims he is being held in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day

    News Politics

    Rangoon bomb suspect put in solitary

    Phyo Wei Aung barred from contact with other inmates in Insein prison and complains that he is being denied basic prisoners’ rights such as exercise

    News Politics

    Youth activist’s sentence extended by 10 years

    Oct 7, 2009 (DVB), A Burmese youth activist currently serving eight years in Rangoon's notorious Insein prison yesterday had his sentence extended by 10 years, sources close to his family[…]

    Features (OLD)

    Waiting in silence: life in a border refugee camp

    Rosalie SmithMar 17, 2009 (DVB), Although being in Nu Pho camp feels like being in any little village peppered with bamboo huts, no one I spoke to there seemed to[…]

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