Myanmar’s Stateless Muslims Struggle to Find a Home
Arakan News Agency When the United Nations agreed to assist Myanmar in conducting the country’s first census over...
Myanmar urges international election monitors to follow rules in upcoming poll
Arakan News Agency Myanmar’s Union Election Commission (UEC) is calling on international election monitors to abide by its...
An Unlikely Bureaucratic Tool for Ethnic Cleansing
Arakan News Agency Ever since Burma’s military elite began a slow and piecemeal, but highly publicized, march back...
800,000 Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar face displacement
Arakan News Agency The fate of an estimated 800,000 Rohingya Muslims is uncertain as their temporary residence permit...
Myanmar sentences five to 21 years in jail over fake rape claim that sparked religious tensions
Arakan News Agency Five people have each been jailed for 21 years for spreading false allegations that a...
Buddhist monks incite hatred against Muslims in Myanmar
Arakan News Agency Myanmar’s constitution guarantees religious freedom. But some radical Buddhists have been railing against Muslims –...
The National League for Democracy has been forced to expel more than 8000 members
Arakan News Agency Due to amendments to the Political Parties Registration Law passed in September 2014, parties can...
Buddhist nationalism threatens Myanmar’s democratic transition.
Arakan News Agency It’s election year in Myanmar, the big test for the country’s aspiring democratic transition. Among...
NGO calls for freeing five ‘prisoners of conscience’
Arakan News Agency NGO Fortify Rights has called on the Myanmar government to immediately and unconditionally release a...
Myanmar: Violent police crackdown against protesters must end
Arakan News Agency The violent police crackdown on largely peaceful protesters in Myanmar amounts to unnecessary and excessive...
Myanmar groups in Malaysia protest against Letpadan crackdown
Arakan News Agency Myanmar Buddhist activists staged a protest alongside Rohingya Muslims in Kuala Lumpur, calling for an...
Myanmar is sliding toward conflict, U.N. investigator says
Arakan News Agency Myanmar is sliding toward conflict as the government backtracks on pledges to protect human rights...
‘It Is Not That White Card Holders Automatically Become Citizens’
Arakan News Agency Burma’s Union Parliament recently passed a controversial law granting temporary identity card holders the right...
