Mizzima

Mizzima's Yangon Head Office. Photo: Thet Ko/Mizzima
June 30, 2016
British NGO ARTICLE 19, which campaigns for freedom of expression, has called on Myanmar prosecutors to drop a criminal case brought against Mizzima...
Chaw Sandi Tun speaks to media outside Maubin township court after being sentenced to six months in jail on 28 December 2015. Photo: Yin Mon Khing/Mizzima
June 29, 2016
Myanmar’s new government should use its parliamentary majority to repeal or amend the many military and colonial-era laws used to criminalize...
June 29, 2016
တုုိင္းရင္းသား လက္နက္ကုုိင္ အဖြဲ႔အစည္းမ်ား အားလံုုး ပါဝင္သည့္ ထိပ္သီးအစည္းအေဝးသိုု႔ တက္ေရာက္ရန္ တုုိင္းရင္းသား လက္နက္ကုုိင္ ေတာ္လွန္ေရး...
Saw Isaac Po, JMC-U vice chairman 1, Photo: KNU HQ
June 28, 2016
Union level Joint Ceasefire Monitoring Committee (JCMC) members have discussed forming state-level committees in Kayin and Mon States, state media...
Opium poppies ready to be processed into heroine at a poppy field near Pekon township, southern Shan State, Myanmar, 20 December 2015. Photo: Hein Htet/EPA
June 27, 2016
In an effort to raise awareness and strengthen Myanmar’s response to the production, trafficking and use of illicit drugs, United Nations Office on...
Ibrahim, 67, looks around inside the destroyed mosque at Thuye Tha Mein village of Waw township in Bago Province, Myanmar, 24 June 2016. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
June 27, 2016
The Myanmar authorities must undertake a prompt, independent, thorough, transparent and impartial investigation into the violent destruction of...
Hong Sar/Mizzima
June 23, 2016
The European Union held a press conference at Sule Shangri-La Hotel on 22 June 2016 to introduce its new policy on Myanmar called "Elements for an EU...
Union Minister for Foreign Affairs Daw Aung San Suu Kyi shakes hands with Ms Yanghee Lee, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar. Photo: MNA
June 21, 2016
Union Minister for Foreign Affairs Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and Ms Yanghee Lee, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in...
Policy Dialogue on Socio-Economic Development in Myanmar held at Kandawgyti Palace in Yagon on 28 May, 2016. Photo: Phyo Thiha/Mizzima
June 21, 2016
At the recently concluded policy dialogue on Socio-Economic Development in Myanmar on 28th May, 2016, jointly conducted by Mizzima and ActionAid...
UN Special Rapporteur on Myanmar, Ms Yanghee Lee, during a press conference in Yangon on January 16, 2015. Photo: Mizzima
June 20, 2016
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Yanghee Lee, will undertake an official visit to the country from...
State Counsellor of Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi (C) looks on as she and members of the Union Peace Dialogue Joint Committee attend a meeting in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, 27 May 2016. Photo: Hein Htet/EPA
June 17, 2016
A meeting to be held between the government and the Delegation for Peace Negotiation (DPN) of the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) in...
One year memorial prayer and a press conference at Kachin Baptist Convention for Murder of two female Kachin teachers in Yangon on 19 January, 2016. Photo: Thet Ko/Mizzima
June 15, 2016
The Kachin Baptist Convention (KBC) on 13 June urged Myanmar authorities, including the President, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing and Daw Aung San...