UN
-
News
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
-
News
‘125,000 truckloads’ of debris need removal in quake-hit Myanmar: UN
With 3,600 dead and 10,000 buildings destroyed, the UN calls for swift action to address debris and restore health services
-
News
UN Special Envoy Julie Bishop to visit Myanmar, despite scrutiny of conflict of interests
Bishop faces calls for her removal due to alleged conflicts of interest and links to Chinese backed mining groups
-
News
UN appeals to Indonesia for Rohingya boat rescue
The call comes after a boat with more than 100 Rohingyas was spotted off the country’s coast late last week
-
News
UN decries ‘horrific’ torture as Myanmar sinks into human rights ‘abyss’
The Myanmar team of the United Nations’ rights office described ‘depraved’ torture methods used by the military junta against dissenters, attributing the pervasiveness of human rights abuses to a ‘vacuum of rule of law’ under the regime