Yangon (Fides Service) - “Burmese ethnic minority refugees camped on the border with Thailand are living a serious humanitarian crisis” says London based Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) ...

The Feb. 1 coup by Myanmar's military forces, overthrowing the democratically elected government, has made a bad situation only worse for the nation's religious and ethnic minority groups.

In June 2023, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) reported that the Tatmadaw “has violated the human rights of religious minorities and destroyed minority religious sites and places of ...

Almost 400 people have died in violence in western Myanmar that was triggered by attacks on security forces by insurgents from the Rohingya ethnic minority, Myanmar’s military said, as both ...

Two reports to the United Nations have found that Myanmar has carried out extreme human rights violations against the Rohingya people, abuses that are most likely crimes under international law.

The young activist, who fled Burma after the coup, said that ethnic and religious minorities had suffered persecution for decades and discrimination persisted to this day.

A U.N. report last month said the Myanmar army and police had committed mass killings and gang rapes of Rohingya in a campaign that may amount to crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing.

The Rohingya are a religious and ethnic minority in Myanmar that faces horrid abuse and discrimination by Burmese authorities. As the politics of Myanmar lurches toward representative democracy, this ...

(New York) – Burma’s parliament should scrap a proposed religion law that would encourage further repression and violence against Muslims and other religious minorities, Human Rights Watch ...

This supports research by other organisations, showing that ethnic and religious minorities in the majority Buddhist country are being targeted by the military. A 2020 United Nations report for ...

Myanmar’s Rohingya ethnic minority, victims of a brutal campaign of mass slaughter and persecution by the nation’s military in 2016, is again being subjected to a wave of deadly ethnic ...

Burma is a long-forgotten battleground for religious freedom and human rights in Asia, and its turmoil is part of a broader struggle in the region.