August 2025

International and Regional 

• 51 Civil Society Organizations/ Joint Open Letter to the Taiwan Government: Urging Against the Rash Repatriation of Burmese People
• 51 Civil Society Organizations/ အတင်းအဓမ္မပြန်လည်ပို့ဆောင်ခံရမည့် မြန်မာပြည်သူများကို အကာအကွယ်ပေးရေးနှင့်ပတ်သက်၍ ထိုင်ဝမ် အစိုးရထံ ပူးတွဲအိတ်ဖွင့်ပေးစာ ပေးပို့ခြင်း
• 59 Organizations/ 8 Years On: Accountability Needed for Myanmar Atrocities Against Rohingya
• 211 Organizations and 62 Individuals/ Protecting the Right to Protest: International Solidarity with Indonesia
• ALTSEAN-Burma, Amnesty International, Article 19, Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA), Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, Athan – Freedom of Expression Activist Organization, Burma Campaign UK, Chin Human Rights Organization, Exile Hub, Fortify Rights, Human Rights Foundation of Monland,  Manushya Foundation, Myanmar Peace Museum, Political Prisoners Network – Myanmar and Politics for Women Myanmar/ Myanmar: Systematic denial of healthcare leading to alarming number of deaths in custody
• Asian NGO Network on National Human Rights Institutions and CSO Working Group on Independent National Human Rights Institution (Burma/Myanmar)/ APF’s removal of junta-controlled Myanmar National Human Rights Commission is a principled step forward, SEANF must follow suit
• Asian NGO Network on National Human Rights Institutions and CSO Working Group on Independent National Human Rights Institution (Burma/Myanmar)/ APF မှ စစ်အုပ်စုထိန်းချုပ်ထားသည့် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံအမျိုးသားလူ့အခွင့်အရေးကော်မရှင်ကို ထုတ်ပယ်လိုက် ခြင်းသည် မူအပေါ်ကို အခြေခံသောခြေတစ်လှမ်းကို တိုးတက်ဆောင်ရွက်မှုတစ်ရပ်ဖြစ်ပြီး SEANF အနေဖြင့် အလားတူဆောင်ရွက်မှုကို လုပ်ဆောင်သင့်သည်
• Embassy of Canada to Myanmar/ Statement on the 8th anniversary of the Myanmar military’s attack against Rohingya
• Human Rights Watch/ Thailand: Aid Cuts Put Myanmar Refugees at Grave Risk
• Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust and Fortify Rights/ Trump’s aid cuts have ‘strengthened tyranny’ in Myanmar, human rights groups warn
• Human Rights Watch/ India: Scores of Rohingya Refugees Expelled
• Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar/ Myanmar Mechanism advances its identification of perpetrators – Annual Report
• Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar/ မြန်မာယန္တရားသည် ကျူးလွန်သူများကိုဖော်ထုတ်ရန် အထောက်အထားများစုဆောင်းရာတွင် တိုးတက်မှုများရှိနေကြောင်း နှစ်ပတ်လည်အစီရင်ခံစာတွင် ဖော်ပြ
• Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar/ Report of the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar
• Insecurity Insight/ Attacks on Health Care in Myanmar: 23 July-05 August 2025
• International Rescue Committee/ IRC welcomes landmark ruling to give refugees legal status to work in Thailand
• International Trade Union Confederation/ Myanmar: ITUC denounces sham election planned by military junta
• Justice For Myanmar and International Commission for Jurists/ Justice For Myanmar and ICJ Norway filed complaint with Norwegian police against Telenor for violating sanctions
• Justice For Myanmar and International Commission for Jurists/ ဒဏ်ခတ်ပိတ်ဆို့မှုချိုးဖောက်ခြင်းအတွက် တယ်လီနောအပေါ် Justice For Myanmar နှင့် ICJ Norway တို့က နော်ဝေရဲတပ်ဖွဲ့တွင် အမှုဖွင့်ခဲ့
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan/ The Situation in Myanmar Following the Lifting of the State of Emergency (Statement by Foreign Minister IWAYA Takeshi)
• Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights/ Myanmar: Eight years after brutal military assault, Rohingya suffering continues
• Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights/ A/HRC/60/20: Situation of human rights of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar – Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights – Advance edited version
• Organisation of Islamic Cooperation/ OIC Renews Call for Justice and Accountability on the Eighth Anniversary of Atrocities against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar
• Union Aid Abroad–APHEDA/ Australian Call On Urgent Humanitarian Crisis At Thai-Myanmar Border Refugee Camps
• United Nations/ Statement attributable to the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General – on the eighth anniversary of the displacement of Rohingya people and other communities from Myanmar
• United Nations Development Programme/ A Generation on the Move
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees/ UNHCR welcomes Royal Thai Government resolution providing long-term refugees the right to work
• United Nations Population Fund/ UNFPA Situation Report: Myamnar Earthquake Response (July 3-31, 2025)
• U.S. Committee for Refugees and Migrants/ Rohingya Genocide Remembrance Day: Eight Years After the Genocide, Recommitting to the Rohingya Today
• U.S. Department of State/ 2024 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Burma

Domestic

• 22 Organizations/ Call for the Release of Burmese Union Leader Myo Myo Aye and STUM Union Activists
• Arakan Rohingya National Council/ Arakan Army (AA)’s Massacre of Over 600 Rohingya in Htan Shauk Khan Village Clear Evidence of Genocide and War Crimes
• Blood Money Campaign, Defend Myanmar Democracy and Progressive Voice/ Eight Years On: Protection and Justice for the Rohingya Cannot Wait
• Blood Money Campaign, Defend Myanmar Democracy and Progressive Voice/ ရှစ်နှစ်တိုင်ခဲ့ပြီ – ရိုဟင်ဂျာများအတွက် အကာအကွယ်ပေးရေးနှင့် တရားမျှတမှုရရှိရေးသည် နှောင့်နှေးမနေသင့်ပေ
• Burma Human Rights Network/ Eight Years On: Genocide Against the Rohingya Persists
• Burmese Women’s Union/ ​​Women’s Information Factsheet July 2025
• Burmese Women’s Union/ အမျိုးသမီးဆိုင်ရာအချက်အလက် ဇူလိုင်လ ၂၀၂၅
• Chin Human Rights Organization/ CHRO Condemns Junta Airstrikes in Mawchi as War Crimes, Calls for Urgent Accountability
• Human Rights Foundation of Monland/ New Report by the Human Rights Foundation of Monland, “Living in Fear,” Demands Urgent Response from the International Community
• Human Rights Foundation of Monland/ July 2025: A Monthly Overview of the Human Rights Situation
• Human Rights Foundation of Monland/ Living in Fear,” The Civilian Impact of the Junta’s Attacks Against Civilians in Southeastern Burma (Jan-June 2025)
• Human Rights Foundation of Monland/ ဇူလိုင်လ ၂၀၂၅: လစဉ်ခြုံငုံသုံးသပ်ချက်
• Human Rights Myanmar/ Myanmar’s repressive use of AI to counter “terrorism”
• Independent Press Council Myanmar/ Objection Statement Regarding the Illegitimate Election and the Junta-Appointed Myanmar Press Council (MPC)
• Interim Executive Council of Karenni State/ Press Statement on Civilian Deaths Caused by the Unlawful Military Junta’s Airstrikes
• Interim Executive Council of Karenni State/ တရားမဝင်အာဏာသိမ်းစစ်တပ်၏လေကြောင်းတိုက်ခိုက်မှုအတွင်း အရပ်သား ပြည်သူများသေဆုံးမှုနှင့် ပတ်သက်၍ထုတ်ပြန်ချက်
• Interim Executive Council of Karenni State/ Statement by the Interim Executive Council of Karenni State (IEC) on Thailand’s Policy Granting Refugees from Myanmar the Right to Work
• Justice For Myanmar/ Canada, EU, UK and USA must close loophole by sanctioning illegal Myanmar junta’s “State Security and Peace Commission” entity
• Justice For Myanmar/ ကနေဒါ၊ အီးယူ၊ ယူကေနှင့် အမေရိကန်ပြည်ထောင်စုတို့က တရားမဝင်မြန်မာစစ်အုပ်စု၏ “နိုင်ငံတော်လုံခြုံရေးနှင့် ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေးကော်မရှင်” အား ဒဏ်ခတ်ပိတ်ဆို့ခြင်းဖြင့် ကယ်ပေါက်ပိတ်ရမည်
• Kachin Women’s Association Thailand/ Ethnic demographic and health survey (EDHS) Report and Factsheet
• Karenni Civil Society Network/ Monthly situation update: Summary of SAC human rights violations in Karenni State and Pekhon Township
• Karen Human Rights Group/ Community spaces under fire: Attacks and destruction of community buildings and cultural events in Southeast Burma by the State Administration Council (SAC) (January – June 2025)
• Karen Refugee Committee, Karen Women’ Organization, Karen Peace Support Network, Karen Student Network Group, Karenni Refugee Committee, Karenni National Women’s Organization, Friends Without Borders Foundation, Bridging Voices Project, Council of Indigenous Peoples in Thailand, Human Rights and Development Foundation and  Migrant Working Group/ Statement of Congratulations on the Thai Cabinet Resolution of August 26, 2025, Allowing Refugees to Work Legally Outside of Temporary Shelters
• Myanmar Internet Project/ Myanmar Digital Coup Quarterly: May 2025 – July 2025
• Myanmar Internet Project/ Weaponizing TikTok in Myanmar: How TikTok Fuels Militarized Propaganda and Profits from Harm in Myanmar
• Myanmar Internet Project/ Unpacking Junta’s Electoral Build-up from Digital Rights Perspective in Myanmar
• Myanmar Peace Monitor and Burma News International/ The Junta’s Strategy for Retaking Lost Towns: Critical Factors to Watch – Issue 175
• National Unity Government/ Statement on the Terrorist Military’s Sham Election
• National Unity Government/ Prohibition of Military Service for Minors
• National Unity Government/ အသက်မပြည့်သူများအား စစ်မှုထမ်းခွင့် မပြုခြင်းနှင့် စပ်လျဉ်းသည့် သတင်းထုတ်ပြန်ချက်
• Shan Human Rights Foundation/ Update: SAC air and artillery attacks kill 35 civilians, injure 55 in Hsipaw, Mogok, Kyaukme, Nawngkhio, Kutkhai, threatening Chinese pipelines
• Shan Human Rights Foundation/ သီပေါ၊ မိုးကုတ်၊ ကျောက်မဲ၊ နောင်ချို၊ ကွတ်ခိုင်မြို့တို့တွင် စစ်ကောင်စီ၏ လေကြောင်းတိုက်ခိုက်မှုနှင့် လက်နက်ကြီးပစ်ခတ်မှုများကြောင့် အရပ်သား ၃၅ ဦး သေဆုံးပြီး ၅၅ ဦးထိခိုက်ဒဏ်ရာရရှိ၊ တရုတ်ပိုက်လိုင်းများကိုလည်း ခြိမ်းခြောက်လျက်ရှိ
• Special Advisory Council for Myanmar/ SAC-M Reset Series: Resetting the Myanmar Economy
• Special Advisory Council for Myanmar/ 8 Long Years of Gross Injustice: Remembering the Rohingya Genocide
• The Border Consortium/ Statement on the Announcement of Work Opportunities for Refugees in Thailand
• Women’s Peace Network/ Statement on the eighth Rohingya Genocide Remembrance Day