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Human Rights Defenders: The former rebel running a school for migrant children

News from Myanmar in recent years have been downbeat, with many human rights abuses. But amid the suffering, there are stories of people working to improve the lives of others. In this video we meet a former rebel who has established a school for migrant children near the Thai-Myanmar border.

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Fear stalks communities in Rakhine State

Renewed fighting in Rakhine between the Myanmar military and the Arakan Army has brought renewed insecurity. As well as a lack of work due to the destroyed economy, young people now fear being forcibly recruited into an unpopular military by its newly enforced conscription law.

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Delays, extortion and forced ID changes common for Muslims at government offices

Imagine being suddenly given a new nationality or ethnicity by a government official, one which gives you fewer rights as a citizen? That’s something happening to some Muslims under the new electronic identification system.

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Video: A fading dream of return for Myanmar migrant families

The military coup has made the lives of not only local citizens but also some long-term Burmese migrants abroad more difficult. In Ranong, Thailand, there are many such migrants. For them the idea of returning to their homeland has now become a distant dream. And what future do their children have?

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Two years after the coup: the MP

The day of the 2021 coup, Myanmar elected representatives were about to attend their first session in parliament after the November 2020 elections. But many politicians were arrested, while some managed to flee. One of the latter is Sithu Maung, who had won a seat for the National League for Democracy.

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Myanmar migrant fishermen still suffer abuses in Thailand

Imagine having to risk your life just to go to the toilet. This is what many offshore fishermen in Thailand have to do - hanging off the back of the boat. Despite some improvements in recent years, Myanmar fishermen say working conditions are still abysmal.

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Two years after the coup: the teacher

“Destroying homes is like crushing hearts,” says a teacher we’ll call ‘Coral’. Her family had their house in Sagaing Region burned down by the military.

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Myanmar migrants suffer abysmal conditions in Thailand’s detention centres

In late January, interns at an immigration detention centre in southern Thailand staged a rare protest. They complained about the absymal conditions and demanded to be released. Why is the situation so bad in Thailand's IDCs and why migrants are held in them for so long?

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Volume 6, Issue 18

January 27, 2021

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Myanmar enters 2021 with more friends than foes

The early delivery of vaccines is one of the many boons of the country’s geopolitics, but to really take advantage, Myanmar must bury the legacy of its isolationist past.

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Will the Kayin BGF go quietly?

The Kayin State Border Guard Force has come under intense pressure from the Tatmadaw over its extensive, controversial business interests and there’s concern the ultimatum could trigger fresh hostilities in one of the country’s most war-torn areas.

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