Women in traditional dresses take part in a shinpyu ceremony in a village near the city of Myeik in the far south of Myanmar. Credit: Depositphotos Myanmar’s current conscription system is an ...

Myint Swe, the figurehead acting president handpicked by the military junta that seized power from Myanmar's democratically ...

Myanmar's firebrand Buddhist monk Wirathu has openly endorsed President Thein Sein's ruling party in the Nov. 8 general election, saying Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition party was "full of themselves ...

Amid Myanmar's unrelenting crisis, it is women who are quietly reshaping the nation's future. As the country reels from military violence, institutional collapse, and humanitarian catastrophe ...

In February 2021, Myanmar’s military seized power in a coup, and the country’s economy, already hammered by the pandemic, started to buckle. Prices soared and May’s paycheck, the equivalent ...

Students of the Women’s Empowerment School run by the Karenni Women’s Association (KNWO) take part in a graduation ceremony on the border between Thailand and Myanmar’s Karenni State, March ...

Across the country, over 1,600 people were confirmed dead, as of Saturday night, and over 3,000 injured in the worst earthquake to hit Myanmar in more than a century. Many fear that the number of ...

Local women’s organisations are key players in this effort, as is the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar, set up by the UN Human Rights Council in 2018 to collect evidence of ...

A Myanmar Buddhist monk who called a U.N. human rights envoy a "whore" has violated his monastic code and could damage his religion, another prominent monk said on Tuesday, but he is unlikely to ...

An airstrike by Myanmar’s army on a village under the control of an armed ethnic minority group killed about 40 people and injured at least 20 others, officials of the group and a local charity ...