Social development
Human rights
Trump administration walking back Obama-era foreign policy mistakes in Burma
Less than two years after sanctions were lifted, that decision looks like a major foreign policy mistake, according to a variety of experts and human rights activists who told Fox News that Burma – also known as Myanmar – has slipped back into a miltary-dominated ...
Myanmar: Aung San Suu Kyi defends policies towards Rohingya
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has defended her government’s actions in Rakhine state which have forced more than 700,000 Muslim-majority Rohingya to flee their homes and seek refuge in neighbouring Bangladesh. Keep reading ...
Why Facebook is losing the war on hate speech in Myanmar
Reuters found more than 1,000 examples of posts, comments and pornographic images attacking the Rohingya and other Muslims on Facebook. A secretive operation set up by the social media giant to combat the hate speech is failing to end the problem. Keep reading ...
Special report: Abuses, exploitation rife in Myanmar’s forgotten prison labour camps
Some 20,000 convicts toil in prison camps across the country, where they face abuse, exploitation and forced labour, a Myanmar Now investigation finds.Keep reading ...
Suu Kyi speaks at UN general assembly
Burma’s State Counselor and Minister of Foreign Affairs Daw Aung San Suu Kyi addresses the 71st United Nations General Assembly in Manhattan, New York, United States on Wednesday. NEW YORK, United States — Daw Aung San Suu Kyi made her first speech Wednesday at the UN General Assembly since forming a democratically elected ...
