May 2025

International and Regional 

• 20 Karen Organizations/ Statement from Karen organisations worldwide
• ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights/ Press Release – 41st Meeting of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights
• ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights/ APHR FFM Reveals Alarming Crisis: ASEAN Must Demand Permanent Ceasefire and Protect Myanmar’s Refugees and Political Prisoners
• Asia Democracy Network/ The 2024 Democracy Overview
• Asia Democracy Network/ ADN Releases “The 2024 Democracy Overview”
• Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network/ APRRN Advocacy Briefer-Strategizing for Rohingya Refugee Protection and Durable Solutions
• Association of Southeast Asian Nations/ ASEAN Leaders’ Statement on an Extended and Expanded Ceasefire in Myanmar
• Burma Campaign UK/ Burmese Military Companies Must Not Benefit from Earthquake Reconstruction
• Committee to Protect Journalists/ Myanmar journalist Than Htike Myint sentenced to 5 years in prison for terrorism
• Fortify Rights/ Myanmar Junta Bombs Civilians During Ceasefire, Hits Earthquake Zones
• Fortify Rights/ Thailand: Protect Unaccompanied Refugee Children, Provide Legal Status, Prevent Detention
• Fortify Rights/ Malaysia: Impose Regional Aviation Fuel Embargo on Myanmar Junta
• Fortify Rights/ India: Government Arbitrarily Detained and Forcibly Transferred Rohingya Human Rights Defender in Defiance of U.N. Ruling
• Mekong Watch, Pacific Asia Resource Center, Justice For Myanmar, Friends of the Earth Japan, Network Against Japan Arms Trade (NAJAT), ayus:Network of Buddhists Volunteers on International Cooperation and Japan International Volunteer Center (JVC)/ ဒဏ်ခတ်ပိတ်ဆို့ထားသည့် စစ်အုပ်စုစီးပွားရေးလုပ်ငန်းစုကြီးနှင့် ဆက်စပ်သော ဂျပန်ကုမ္ပဏီများ၊ အစိုးရအာမခံအဖွဲ့နှင့် ရင်းနှီးမြှုပ်နှံမှုကော်ပိုရေးရှင်းများအား မြန်မာ့ဆိပ်ကမ်းစီမံကိန်းမှ တာဝန်ယူမှုရှိရှိ နုတ်ထွက်ရန် တောင်းဆို
• Mekong Watch, Pacific Asia Resource Center, Justice For Myanmar, Friends of the Earth Japan, Network Against Japan Arms Trade (NAJAT), ayus:Network of Buddhists Volunteers on International Cooperation and Japan International Volunteer Center (JVC)/ Japanese companies, government insurer and investment corporation urged to responsibly exit from Myanmar port project linked to sanctioned military conglomerate
• Network for Human Rights Documentation-Burma/ The Network for Human Rights Documentation – Burma Calls for ASEAN to Uphold and Protect Human Rights in New Briefing Paper Ahead of the 46th ASEAN Summit
• NCP Denmark/ NCP Denmark initiates actual investigation in complaint from Justice For Myanmar against Nordic Aviation Capital
• Insecurity Insight/ Attacks on Health Care in Myanmar
• Network for Human Rights Documentation – Burma/ ASEAN Must Protect, Not Neglect Human Rights in Burma
• Refugees International/ A Closing Window: How Aid Cuts are Undermining Rohingya Possibilities
• Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights/ Situation of human rights in Myanmar – Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights – Advance unedited version
• Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights/ Türk warns of unremitting violence against civilians in Myanmar 
• Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights/ Alarmed by reports of Rohingya cast into the sea from Indian navy vessels, UN expert launches inquiry of “unconscionable, unacceptable acts”
• Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights/ UN warns of ‘catastrophic’ human rights crisis in Myanmar as violence and economic collapse deepen
• U.S. Department of Treasury/ Treasury Sanctions Burma Warlord and Militia Tied to Cyber Scam Operations

Domestic

• 26 Organizations/ Mass Drowning of Rohingya Refugees: A Tragedy Fueled by Arakan Army Brutality and Global Indifference
• 285 Civil Society Organizations/ Open letter: Malaysia must lead ASEAN with principle, not hypocrisy, to address the Myanmar crisis
• Blood Money Campaign, Defend Myanmar Democracy,  Karen Peace Support Network and Progressive Voice/ UN Special Envoy Julie Bishop reported to UN Office of Internal Oversight Services over conflicts of interest
• Burma News International and Myanmar Peace Monitor/ Schools in Myanmar: The New Targets of Junta Airstrikes – Issue 170
• Burmese Women’s Union/ အမျိုးသမီးဆိုင်ရာအချက်အလက် ဧပြီလ ၂၀၂၅
• Burmese Women’s Union/ Women’s Information Factsheet April 2025
• Defend Myanmar Democracy/ အာဆီယံအနေဖြင့် စစ်ရာဇဝတ်ကောင်များနှင့် ဆက်ဆံရေးအားလုံး ရပ်တန့်ရန်
• Defend Myanmar Democracy/ ASEAN Must Stop Engaging with War Criminals
• Federation of General Workers Myanmar/ 135th May Day Statement
• Federation of General Workers Myanmar/ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံအလုပ်သမားတပ်ပေါင်းစု – MLA ၏ (၁၃၅) ကြိမ်‌မြောက် မေဒေးထုတ်ပြန်ကြေညာချက် ‘’တရားမျှတမှုအတွက် ညီညွတ်မှုဖြင့် တိုက်ယူကြ’’
• Future Light Center/ Message of Honor Sent by FLC to the 135th International Workers’ Day (May Day) Celebration
• Human Rights Myanmar/ Sex-based violence in Myanmar
• Human Rights Myanmar/ Military prevents reintegration of political prisoners
• Institute for Strategy and Policy – Myanmar/ O’ Northern Roads: Subcontracting Sovereignty
• Justice For Myanmar/ Companies in ASEAN Fuelling Myanmar Junta’s International Crimes
• Justice For Myanmar/ မြန်မာစစ်အုပ်စုရက်စက်ကြမ်းကြုတ်မှုကြီးများအား လောင်စာဖြည့်ပေးနေသည့် အာဆီယံသူဌေးကြီးများအား ဖော်ထုတ်ရန် “အာဆီယံ အသက် ၃၀ အထက် မသမာသူများစာရင်း” ကို Justice For Myanmar ထုတ်ပြန်
• Justice For Myanmar/ Justice For Myanmar launches “Dirty Over 30 ASEAN” to expose ASEAN tycoons fuelling Myanmar junta atrocities
• Justice For Myanmar/ အာဆီယံဒေသတွင်းကုမ္ပဏီများက မြန်မာစစ်အုပ်စု၏ နိုင်ငံတကာရာဇဝတ်မှုများအတွက် လောင်စာဖြည့်ကူညီနေ
•  Justice For Myanmar/ 54 companies in ASEAN have provided Myanmar junta access to revenue, aviation fuel and tech, enabling atrocities
• Karen Human Rights Group/ Defying Hunger : State Administration Council (SAC)’s systematic destruction of civilian livelihoods and food systems in Southeast Burma (January – December 2024)
• National Unity Government/ Statement on World Press Freedom Day
• National Unity Government/ Statement regarding the recent airstrike targeting schools
• National Unity Government/ Statement on the Killing of 10 Members of People’s Defence Organization in Tamu District in the Indo-Myanmar Border
• National Unity Government/ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံရေးရာ အခြေအနေများနှင့်စပ်လျဥ်း၍ ကူညီဖြေရှင်းရန် အာဆီယံခေါင်းဆောင်များ၏ သီးသန့်သဘောထားကြေညာချက်ထုတ်ပြန်ခြင်းအပေါ် အမျိုးသားညီညွတ်ရေးအစိုးရ၏ သဘောထားရပ်တည်ချက်ထုတ်ပြန်ခြင်း
• National Unity Government/ The National Unity Government’s Position on the ASEAN Leaders’ Statement on an Extended and Expanded Ceasefire in Myanmar
• Shan Human Rights Foundation/ Satellite imagery indicates rare earth mining in southern Mong Hsat only 25 kms from Thai border
• Special Advisory Council for Myanmar/ လားရှိုးမြို့အား MNDAA ထံမှ စစ်အုပ်စု၏ ရှက်ဖွယ်ကောင်းသော ပြန်လည်သိမ်းယူမှုနှင့် ၎င်းနောက်ကွယ်မှ တရုတ်၏ ကြားဝင်စွက်ဖက်မှု
• Special Advisory Council for Myanmar/ China’s Intervention behind the junta shameful reoccupation of Lashio from the MNDAA
• Special Advisory Council for Myanmar/ မြန်မာ့ကလေးငယ်များအပေါ် အစုလိုက်အပြုံလိုက်သတ်ဖြတ်မှုများ ဆက်လက်ဖြစ်ပွားနေဆဲ -စစ်အုပ်စု၏ရက်စက်မှုများအား တရုတ်နိုင်ငံကတားဆီးနိုင်
• Special Advisory Council for Myanmar/ Massacre of Myanmar Children Continues: China Can Stop the Junta’s Atrocities
• Special Advisory Council for Myanmar/ အာဆီယံသည် မြန်မာပြည်သူများအား ထပ်မံ၍ စိတ်ပျက်ဖွယ်ရာဖြစ်အောင် ပြုလုပ်ခဲ့ပြန်ပြီ
• Special Advisory Council for Myanmar/ ASEAN Fails Myanmar Dismally — Again