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Myanmar’s record on women rights will be reviewed on July 7 in Geneva by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women. Photo: Mizzima
July 4, 2016
Myanmar’s record on women rights will be reviewed on July 7 in Geneva by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, which...
Yanghee Lee (C), the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, visits Aung Mingalar Muslim quarter in Sittwe of Rakhine State, western Myanmar, 23 June 2016. Photo: Nyunt Win/EPA
July 4, 2016
Ms Yanghee Lee, the UN Special Rapporteur on Myanmar, made a statement at the end of her 12-day visit to Myanmar on Friday.
July 1, 2016
The YOPETV programme, which means “YOungPEople”, will give voice to young people and reflect their real-life situations. It will also provide...
Senior General Min Aung Hlaing and Peace Process Steering Team pose for documentary photo. Photo: MNA
July 1, 2016
Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing during a meeting with the Peace Process Steering Team (PPST) said that the Tatmadaw (Myanmar military) will not...
June 30, 2016
The Myanmar Institute for Integrated Development (MIID) in cooperation with the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences of Cornell University, in...
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...