Rights groups say the National Unity Government, made up of elected members, must be allowed to represent Myanmar at all UN bodies. A top United Nations committee has again blocked Myanmar’s military, which grabbed power in a February 2021 coup, from taking the country’s seat at the UN, according to diplomats and Myanmar rights groups. The decision means that Kyaw …
Ye Yint Aung remembers listening to Myanmar's first hip-hop album almost every day after primary school. Key points: There has been an 'alarming' rise in death sentences handed down in Myanmar Amnesty International believes China is executing thousands, but official numbers are unknown Human rights groups are calling on Australia to be more vocal about abolishing the death penalty in …
The UN General Assembly will vote on Friday on a non-binding resolution condemning the military regime in Myanmar and calling on member states to curb the “flow of arms” into the violence-wracked country, diplomats said. ‘Effective collective measures’ In a recent letter to the United Nations, Myanmar’s envoy to the world body, Kyaw Moe Tun, called for “effective collective measures” …
In a speech on Friday, Kyaw Moe Tun called on the United Nations to use ‘any means necessary’ to halt the military coup. Myanmar’s ambassador to the United Nations has been fired, state television reported on Saturday, a day after he urged the UN to use “any means necessary” to halt a military coup. Kyaw Moe Tun had told the …
CNN — Two Myanmar military deserters say they were ordered to take part in the indiscriminate mass killing and rape of Rohingya Muslims in 2017, a human rights group claims, in video confessions which correspond with individual accounts given by survivors of the alleged atrocities. That campaign has previously been described by the United Nations and human rights organizations as …