Total Energies and Chevron say they are stopping all operations in Myanmar, citing rampant human rights abuses and deteriorating rule of law since the military overthrew the elected government.

The United Nations Human Rights Council should adopt a strategy for accountability in Myanmar to end abuses by the military junta, Human Rights Watch said today. The council will discuss Myanmar ...

The rapid increase in rare earth mining in Kachin State, Myanmar, is causing severe environmental degradation and health ...

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.

GENEVA — Three years after Myanmar’s military junta overthrew the country’s democratically elected government, the U.N.’s top human rights official is calling on the international ...

The report, which documents alleged human rights violations between Feb. 1, 2022, and Jan. 31, 2023, found that violence had intensified in northwestern and southeastern Myanmar due to the ...

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.

Human Rights Watch and the other organizations warned governments, UN officials, and diplomats that if they simply hold meetings and make speeches as atrocities continue in Myanmar, they bear the ...

Protesters run after police shot warning shots and used water cannon to disperse them during a protest in Mandalay, Myanmar on Feb. 9, 2021. The U.N.'s leading human rights body agreed Thursday ...

The U.N.'s leading human rights body agreed Thursday, April 4, 2024, to measures aimed at putting pressure on Myanmar and Iran, whose governments have been accused of using violence against their ...

Security forces in Myanmar opened fire and made mass arrests Sunday as they sought to break up protests against the military's seizure of power. The United Nations human rights official said it ...