Conditions in Myanmar’s jails are dire for all inmates, but human rights organisations say political prisoners suffer more abuses – including medical neglect that often has deadly consequences.
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Conditions in Myanmar’s jails are dire for all inmates, but human rights organisations say political prisoners suffer more abuses – including medical neglect that often has deadly consequences.
BY Frontier
Young people and their families are seeking any way they can to evade the Myanmar military’s conscription drive – sometimes with the help of sympathetic local administrators.
BY Frontier
The United States claimed it foiled a plot by an alleged Yakuza boss to sell weapons-grade plutonium sourced by an ethnic armed group in Myanmar, but experts say the story doesn’t add up.
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Myanmar’s deadliest mine collapse in recent history caught the world’s attention in July, but local frustration with an industry controlled by outside companies has been growing for years.
Transparency and accountability are elusive qualities among the bureaucrats at the Kayah State election sub-commission.
Amid a harsh present, State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is asking voters to reflect on the past. Her own party’s past, to be exact.
BY Frontier
Former political exile U Aung Moe Zaw is disappointed with the National League for Democracy government.
Villages deserted because of fighting and officials fearful of leaving towns have seriously disrupted planning in Rakhine State for the election.
In Myanmar, women with disabilities who survive rape and sexual assault face more stigma than support.
Elderly citizens have been hard hit by the effects of the coronavirus, with a survey revealing that many worry about having enough to support themselves.
BY Frontier
After more than three decades under government control, lawyers are once again able to elect peers to the Bar Council.
BY Ye Mon
COVID-19 travel restrictions will not keep people from fleeing when there are mortar shells falling around them, writes a medical doctor on the COVID-19 frontline in Sittwe.
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