GENEVA (13 November 2025) – Junta forces have executed, tortured and sexually assaulted persons with disabilities while their relentless repression and violence are trapping many in a daily fight for ...

The bloc will reportedly not send observers to the military-administered elections planned for December, but is likely to accept the new status quo that emerges.

Members of the Chin ethnic minority in Myanmar—90 percent of whom profess Christianity—are fighting each other.

Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) has renewed its call for urgent international action as Myanmar’s military intensifies ...

NAYPYITAW, Myanmar — Myanmar military television says the military is taking control of the country for one year, while reports say many of the country’s senior politicians including Aung San Suu Kyi ...

I was working as a journalist in Yangon, Myanmar’s biggest city, when the military seized power. That was on 1 February 2021, and everything changed overnight. Only three months before, the landslide ...

Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, head of the military council, salutes on stage during a parade to commemorate Myanmar’s 79th Armed Forces Day, in Naypyidaw, Myanmar, Wednesday, March 27, 2024. Credit: AP ...

A draft cybersecurity law due to be implemented in Myanmar has raised protests that it will be used to quash dissent rather than protect privacy. Human rights advocates issued statements on February ...

As activists marked the fourth anniversary of Myanmar's military coup on February 1, 2025, old protest photos in Thailand ...

A woman prays at a Chinese temple in the Chinatown area of Yangon on Jan. 29 on the first day of the Lunar New Year of the Snake. (Photo by Sai Aung MAIN / AFP) Over the past four years, Myanmar has ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Even before the massive earthquake that struck Myanmar and parts of Thailand today ...