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Demonstrators denounce a military coup while holding signs for the return of Aung San Suu Ky, their de facto civilian leader.

The Crisis in Myanmar Takes a Turn for the Worse

In lay July, the military Junta in Myanmar carried out its first executions in decades. Four activists were killed, including very prominant pro-democracy leaders. The military carried out these executions despite widespread international and regional pressure. These executions come a...

War Crimes and Ethnic Cleansing Were Committed Against the Rohingya of Myanmar. They Deserve Justice. But How?

In August 2017, hundreds of thousands of ethnic Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar fled across the border to Bangladesh. The Rohingya are a minority population that have long faced discrimination by the Buddhist Burmese majority. In the summer of 2017, things...

Here’s Why the Security Council Should Not Refer Burmese Authorities to the International Criminal Court

Ed note. This is a special guest post from Mark Kersten, who is the Deputy Director of the Wayamo Foundation as well as a fellow and lecturer at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, and the author of the...

Myanmar Armed Forces Blacklisted By UN For Committing Sexual Violence Against Rohingya

For the first time ever, the UN secretary-general is including Myanmar Armed Forces on an annual blacklist of groups that are “credibly suspected” of carrying out sexual violence during conflict. The report, presented Monday to the Security Council, says the...

New Evidence Suggests that What’s Happening in Myanmar is no longer a “potential” genocide. It’s the real thing

A recent report by the UN Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (OHCHR) details the brutal treatment of the Rohingya by the Myanmar military and armed gangs. More than half a million Rohingya have fled Myanmar for Bangladesh...

Bangladesh Wants to Deport Rohingya to a Remote and Uninhabitable Island

Bangladesh is forging ahead with a controversial plan to settle hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees from Myanmar on an isolated, undeveloped, flood-prone island in the Bay of Bengal. According to the latest estimates from U.N. officials, 313,000 Rohingya have poured across the...

Video: This is what the Journey of 123,000 Fleeing Rohingya Refugees Looks Like

The Rohingya are a long discriminated against minority community that live primarily in Myanmar. They are religiously Muslim and an ethnic minority that has faced marginalization by the government and population of Myanmar. Over the years, hundreds of thousands of...

PODCAST: New evidence of systematic sexual violence committed against Rohingya people in Myanmar

Crimes against humanity are ongoing in Burma and they are being committed by the state against the Rohingya people. This is a minority community in Burma that has historically faced intense discrimination, but there was some degree of hope that...

Can Kofi Annan Bring Peace to a Troubled Region?

The former Secretary General is taking on a new challenge: bringing peace and reconciliation to a desolate, troubled corner of South East Asia. Rakhine State in Myanmar is a conflict prone region in the western part of the country that...

The Crisis in Myanmar Takes a Turn for the Worse

War Crimes and Ethnic Cleansing Were Committed Against the Rohingya of Myanmar. They Deserve Justice. But How?

Here’s Why the Security Council Should Not Refer Burmese Authorities to the International Criminal Court

Myanmar Armed Forces Blacklisted By UN For Committing Sexual Violence Against Rohingya

New Evidence Suggests that What’s Happening in Myanmar is no longer a “potential” genocide. It’s the real thing

Bangladesh Wants to Deport Rohingya to a Remote and Uninhabitable Island

Video: This is what the Journey of 123,000 Fleeing Rohingya Refugees Looks Like

PODCAST: New evidence of systematic sexual violence committed against Rohingya people in Myanmar

Can Kofi Annan Bring Peace to a Troubled Region?

UNAIDS and the Millennium Villages

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