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The outgoing UN human rights chief kept Burma under the microscope in parting remarks to the UN Human Rights Council on Monday, noting the government’s failure to cooperate with multiple probes into alleged rights abuses.
Thailand’s businesses and its government must do more to protect the rights of vulnerable people abroad, analysts and activists said, after a landmark case filed by Cambodian farmers in a Bangkok court against a Thai sugar firm.
International Relations Lead Story News
Burma wants to continue working with the United Nations on human rights but its investigator must be fair, the foreign ministry said on Thursday, a day after special rapporteur Yanghee Lee was barred from visiting the country.
Myanmar National Human Rights Commission says it is powerless to intervene in the case involving two Reuters journalists who were arrested on December 12.
Arakan Lead Story News Rakhine
President Htin Kyaw has established yet another governmental body to address the situation in troubled Rakhine State, this one comprised of Burmese and foreign members including the chairman of the Myanmar National Human Rights Commission and a former US presidential aspirant.
Human Rights International Relations Lead Story News Rohingya
The UN Human Rights Council voted Tuesday to condemn the alleged rights violations perpetrated by Burmese security forces against Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine State, in a vote of 33 in favour and three against. Nine nations abstained.
Report says the MNHRC’s greatest weakness is its failure to serve as a voice for the country’s most vulnerable people.
Arakan Lead Story News Rohingya
Kof Annan’s commission will report its recommendations after a year monitoring the inter-religious tensions between Muslims and Buddhists in Arakan State.
Months after a maid abuse scandal prompted some of its members to resign, the Myanmar National Human Rights Commission is being drawn into the case of a 13-year-old domestic helper who has accused her employers of beating and scalding her.
A member of the Lower House of Parliament has submitted an urgent proposal to denounce the findings of Yanghee Lee, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Burma. The proposal was approved for further discussion by Lower House Speaker Win Myint.
Human Rights International Relations Lead Story News
UN human rights envoy Yanghee Lee offered stern words for the Burmese government on Friday evening, urging it to reconsider its refusal to issue visas to a UN fact-finding mission tasked with probing alleged human rights abuses in Arakan State and elsewhere in Burma.
Human Rights International Relations Lead Story News
Yanghee Lee arrived in Rangoon on Sunday for her sixth visit to Burma as UN special rapporteur on the human rights situation in the country.
Arakan International Relations Lead Story News Rohingya
Over 20 human rights organisations issue a call to the international community, urging world leaders to pressure the Burmese government into cooperating with a United Nations fact-finding mission on alleged human rights violations in Arakan State and elsewhere in the country.
Human Rights Interview Lead Story News
Myanmar Now speaks to Yu Lwin Aung of the Myanmar National Human Rights Commission.
Arakan Lead Story News Rohingya
The commission charged with investigating the 9 October attacks on border police outposts in northern Arakan State and subsequent allegations of grave human rights abuses has been granted an “indefinite extension” to its reporting deadline.
UN special rapporteur Yanghee Lee gave a sombre review of Burma’s human rights progress after her second tour of the country under the NLD government.
Arakan Human Rights Lead Story News Rohingya
Human rights advocates both at home and abroad this week issued calls for the creation of an independent, international commission of inquiry into allegations of serious human rights abuses committed by Burmese security forces in northern Arakan State.
Arakan International Relations Lead Story News Refugees Rohingya
More than 65,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled conflict-torn northern Arakan State in recent months, seeking shelter across the border in Bangladesh, according to startling figures released by the United Nations this week.
Ethnic issues Lead Story News Religion
Christians around Burma say they are no better off under the democratically elected government headed by Aung San Suu Kyi, despite promises made in the lead-up to the historic 2015 general election to protect the nation’s’ four major faiths.
Human Rights Lead Story News Rangoon
The MNHRC officials had been under intense criticism for their handling of a high-profile case where two young maids were allegedly tortured and abused by their employers.
Praising Burma’s progress on human rights, the European Union said that it would not introduce a resolution condemning the country’s record for the first time in 15 years.
Arakan Ethnic issues Lead Story News Rohingya
Former UN chief Kofi Annan says that cooperation with neighbouring countries will be key to resolving tensions in Arakan State.
Arakan Lead Story News Rohingya
The hardline Arakan National Party (ANP) has called for the newly formed Arakan Commission, headed by former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, to be dissolved, calling its mandate “unacceptable”. The nine-member[…]
Culture Ethnic issues Human Rights International International Relations Lead Story News Religion Rohingya
Amnesty International has welcomed the establishment of a high-level Arakan Commission headed by former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, but has called for it to address the human rights situation in the volatile region, while investigating decades of discrimination against minorities.
Arakan Lead Story News Rohingya
Former UN chief Kofi Annan was picked on Wednesday to lead a commission to stop human rights abuses in Arakan State.
Arakan Human Rights Lead Story News Rohingya
Aung San Suu Kyi reiterates her position on avoiding use of the term “Rohingya” during talks with Yanghee Lee, the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in Burma.
Two US-based rights groups argue that sanctions on Burma should remain in place until the country makes further progress on human rights abuses.
Myanmar Human Rights Commission member Khine Khine Win discusses the body’s limitations and what she believes are its achievements.
Lead Story Migrants Issues News Rohingya
Foreign Ministry says Burma shares the concerns about the plight of boat people in the Andaman Sea, and “stands ready to provide humanitarian assistance”.
Burma Lead Story News Politics Protest
International rights groups condemn the violent attacks on protestors, and denounce the police for drafting in pro-government thugs to assist them.
