Amnesty International Monday called for increased global action and solidarity with the people of Myanmar on the two-year anniversary of the 2021 coup by the military junta or Tatmadaw. Amnesty ...

WASHINGTON – Amnesty International revoked its top human-rights award from Aung San Suu Kyi on Monday, saying the Myanmar leader has lost her credibility as a pro-democracy icon for her refusal ...

Amnesty International released its annual report Thursday, highlighting a worsening of human rights worldwide. The report covering 159 countries claims that increasingly world leaders are ...

Amnesty International released a report Tuesday documenting numerous atrocities committed by the Myanmar military including the burning of villages, destruction of civilian infrastructure and ...

Amid ongoing concern about human rights in Myanmar, including the violence against the Rohingya ethnic minority, Congress is again trying to step in to fill a gap left by the Trump administration ...

In 2018, Amnesty International stripped Suu Kyi of its 2009 Ambassador of Conscience Award, one of the organization’s highest honors, for “betraying the human rights values she once advocated ...

Amnesty added that since the February 2021 coup in Myanmar, the organization recorded an “alarming” increase in the number of known death sentences in the country from at least one in 2020 to ...

An investigation into last week's airstrike by Myanmar's military that killed 80 civilians at a music festival has honed in on an aviation fuel supply chain that has aided hundreds of similar attacks.

Human Rights Watch's campaign "Behind Bars: Free Burma's Political Prisoners" seeks to secure the release of all 2,100 political detainees in Burma, a number that effectively doubled since 2007.

Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Civil Rights Defenders are concerned about a number of laws in Myanmar – including the Peaceful Assembly and Peaceful Procession Law – which are ...

She said that since former General Thein Sein became president, human rights abuses have actually increased, with higher numbers of reports of rape by the Myanmar Army and security forces ...

The U.N.'s leading human rights body has agreed to measures aimed at putting pressure on Myanmar and Iran, whose governments have been accused of using violence against their own people.