Human Rights
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UN rights work facing ‘existential threat’ amid targeted cuts: report
The funding cuts’ effects may include termination of up to a third of the staff from the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar, including the possible elimination of a team investigating sexual and gender-based crimes
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Police set to charge three activists for Human Rights Day protest in Sittwe
Rakhine Youth New Generation Network members are latest to be targeted in crackdown against anti-war campaigners
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Telenor says government is seeking direct access to customers’ personal data
The Norway-based telecoms company warns that the move would have significant human-rights implications
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Rights group condemns ‘coordinated crackdown’ against anti-war activists as tensions rise in Rakhine
Fortify Rights has called for the immediate release of 15 campaigners arrested in recent weeks for distributing anti-war flyers
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Myanmar’s rights commission failing to act on ‘atrocity crimes’ in Rakhine state, say advocates
Commission has not taken action on killing of children and burning of villages, coalition of rights groups says