May 2023
May 31st, 2023 •
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International and Regional
- ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights/ Restricting Diversity: Mapping Legislation on Freedom of Religion or Belief in Southeast Asia
- ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights/ Open letter on the situation of human rights and human rights defenders in Southeast Asia ahead of the inaugural ASEAN – EU Summit
- Amnesty International/ Southeast Asia: ‘Swift action’ needed to rescue Rohingya refugees stranded at sea
- Amnesty International/ Malaysia: Government must stop forcible return of people to Myanmar
- ALTSEAN-Burma, Asia Democracy Network, Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development, Burma Human Rights Network, Initiatives for International Dialogue, International Federation for Human Rights, Progressive Voice, US Campaign for Burma, Women’s Peace Network/ Coup Watch November 2022 – Temporary ceasefire in Rakhine as ASEAN starts getting serious
- Burma Campaign UK/ Qatar: Stop Hosting Burmese Military Vessels
- Burma Campaign UK/ Burma Campaign UK Welcomes New UK Burma Sanctions
- Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK/ New Report: Myanmar Military Defying UN Court On Rohingya Genocide. UN Security Must Uphold Court Orders
- Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK/ Prevent The Unthinkable
- Christian Solidarity Worldwide/ Former President of the Kachin Baptist Convention arrested
- CIVICUS Monitor/ Protesters Detained in Over 90 countries from the past year finds New Global Report
- CIVICUS Monitor/ Global Assessment on Protest Rights
- Committee to Protect Journalists/ Myanmar journalist Myo San Soe sentenced to 15 years in prison for terrorism
- Committee to Protect Journalists/ Myanmar’s jailing of journalists enters harsh new phase
- European Rohingya Council/ Myanmar Junta’s Death Penalty to Seven University Students, Barbaric
- Environmental Investigation Agency/ Traders defy the law to import more teak into the USA from Myanmar than before the coup
- Environmental Investigation Agency/ Acts of Defiance: How US traders are ignoring sanctions to import conflict teak from Myanmar
- Government of Canada/ Backgrounder: Additional Sanctions for Myanmar
- Government of Canada/ Regulations Amending the Special Economic Measures (Burma) Regulations
- Human Rights Watch/ Myanmar: Junta Sentences 10 Prisoners to Death
- International Alert/ Breaking the binary: LGBT+ inclusive approach to the women, peace and security agenda in Nepal and Myanmar
- International Labour Organization/ ILO calls for the unconditional release of Thet Hnin Aung, General Secretary of the Myanmar Industries Craft and Services Trade Union Federation
- International Federation of Journalists/ The Revolution Will Not Be Broadcast – Myanmar: IFJ Situation Report 2022
- Justice For Myanmar/ Yoma Bank providing services to Myanmar military telco, Mytel
- Justice For Myanmar/ Germany’s support for capacity building of Myanmar junta may breach EU sanctions
- Justice For Myanmar/ JFM cautiously welcomes ANZ exit and calls for responsible disengagement
- Justice For Myanmar/ Singapore-listed ETC’s legal review encourages Myanmar sanctions evasion
- Justice For Myanmar/ Switzerland legitimising illegal Myanmar junta with meeting & invite to development summit
- Justice For Myanmar/ JFM welcomes Switzerland disinviting junta from development summit
- Justice For Myanmar/ JFM welcomes Canadian sanctions on Myanmar military jet fuel supplier and arms brokers
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Cambodia/ Report of the Special Envoy of the ASEAN Chair on Myanmar to the 40th and 41st ASEAN Summits
- Myanmar Witness/ The Tabayin School Attack
- Myanmar Witness/ Fire as a weapon in Sagaing
- Myanmar Witness/ The Road to Civil War: the evolution and escalation of the war in Myanmar
- Myanmar Witness/ Thirsting for blood
- Myanmar Witness/ Killing Spree
- Myanmar Witness/ Shot in the Back
- Myanmar Witness/ Retaliatory attack in Sin Inn Gyi
- Myanmar Ethnic Rohingya Human Rights Organization in Malaysia (MERHROM)/ Death Sentence on 7 Pro – Democracy Activist Prove the Ongoing Atrocities In Myanmar on Top of Ongoing Rohingya Genocide
- Myanmar Accountability Project/ Myanmar’s Illegal Junta Fails in Recognition Bid at UN General Assembly
- Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights/ UN expert urges Republic of Korea to play enhanced leadership role to address Myanmar crisis
- Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights/ Myanmar: UN Human Rights Chief alarmed at death sentences by secretive military courts
- Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights/ Myanmar: UN Human Rights Office Deeply Concerned By New NGO Law
- Refugee International/ Hope amid Despair: Finding Solutions for Rohingya in Bangladesh
- Special Advisory Council for Myanmar/ SAC-M Briefing Paper: The ICC Can End the Myanmar Military’s Impunity
- Special Advisory Council for Myanmar/ New SAC-M Briefing Paper: The ICC Can End the Myanmar Military’s Impunity
- United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar/ End of Mission Statement Thomas Andrews United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar (21 November 2022)
- United Nations Human Rights Council/ Myanmar: Over 50,000 exposed to forced evictions and housing destruction, say UN experts
- United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs/ Myanmar Humanitarian Update No. 24 | 3 December 2022
- United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees/ Myanmar Emergency Update (as of 5 December 2022)
- United Nations in Myanmar/ A Joint Statement of the United Nations in Myanmar
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum/ Countries at Risk for Mass Killing 2022–23: New Early Warning Report
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum/ Countries at Risk for Mass Killing 2022–23: Early Warning Project Statistical Risk Assessment Results
- United States Commission on International Religious Freedom/ USCIRF Releases New Report on Burma
- United States Commission on International Religious Freedom/ Burma Policy Update
- United States Department of State/ Resettlement Initiative for Vulnerable Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh
- US Agency for International Development/ Burma and Bangladesh – Regional Crisis Response Fact Sheet #1, Fiscal Year (FY) 2023
- World Kachin Congress/ Statement for immediate release on Unlawful and arbitrary arrest of Rev. Dr. Hkalam Samson
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