YANGON: Deputy Minister for Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement Dr Than Soe said that if women experience violence, they ...

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For many women in Myanmar, conjoined economic and security crises mean never being able to let their guard down and never being able to think more than “one day at a time.” ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Tuerk, poses for a picture. Christiane Oelrich/dpa Violence is on the rise in ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Myanmar is on “a path to self-destruction” if violence in the conflict-wracked Southeast Asian nation doesn’t end, the U.N. envoy warned on Tuesday. Julie Bishop told the U.N.

In a request submitted to the International Criminal Court on Wednesday, lawyers included an unusual annex: 20 pages of purple thumbprints. These are the equivalent of signatures from 400 Rohingya ...

BANGKOK (AP) — A nationwide strike marked the one-year anniversary Tuesday of the army’s seizure of power in Myanmar, as protests and sporadic violence across the country renewed concern over the ...

Over the past week, violence between Buddhists and Muslims in Rakhine State, in the western part of Myanmar, has flared up badly once again. According to reports in local media and the news wires, ...

The UN human rights office has said Myanmar is witnessing intensified violence, repression and intimidation in the buildup to military-controlled elections that have been widely branded as a sham to ...

Protests have turned deadly since the military seized power on Feb. 1. YouTube said Friday it has removed videos and channels associated with Myanmar's military after protests over an apparent coup ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is appalled by the escalating violence in Myanmar and the resulting human suffering and displacement this is causing. We are shocked by the indiscriminate violence ...

UNITED NATIONS — Myanmar is on “a path to self-destruction” if violence in the conflict-wracked Southeast Asian nation doesn’t end, the U.N. envoy warned on Tuesday. Julie Bishop told the U.N. General ...