The regional bloc is confronting Myanmar with a mixture of immobilism and wishful thinking, while other actors intervene more effectively – to the regime’s benefit.
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The regional bloc is confronting Myanmar with a mixture of immobilism and wishful thinking, while other actors intervene more effectively – to the regime’s benefit.
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After fleeing conflict in their native Rakhine State, members of the Kaman Muslim minority group are facing work and housing discrimination in Myanmar’s commercial capital.
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An early pledge by the parallel National Unity Government to replace Myanmar’s racist citizenship law raised hopes for marginalised communities, but impatience is growing as revolutionary groups trade blame for the delays.
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Advocates and activists are weary of calling the case a turning point in the military's long history of dismissing and denying rape claims lodged against it.
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David Arnott, who died earlier this month in Thailand, was at the vanguard of online activism targeting Myanmar’s regime and spent the last two decades of his life building the largest online collection of material about the country.
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The private ownership of most of Yangon’s green space leaves residents with no choice but to crowd into the few public spaces left for them.
As conditions deteriorate in increasingly overcrowded Bangladeshi refugee camps, desperate parents are marrying off their daughters to Rohingya men thousands of kilometres away.
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After its landslide election win, the NLD is seeking the “cooperation” of ethnic parties in establishing a federal democracy, but they have yet to see evidence that their basic demands will be met.
Investigation reveals a sophisticated and always-evolving operation worth many millions of dollars in which members of the Rohingya community play a key role in trafficking.
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An advocacy group has proposed four options for reforming Myanmar’s tangle of criminal defamation clauses, which are being used ever more frequently under the National League for Democracy government.
A group of volunteers have been living in cemetaries to isolate from their loved ones while providing crucial funeral rites to the COVID-19 dead among Yangon's Muslim community.
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