in Myanmar

By Anjali Sharma UNITED NATIONS - UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric on Wednesday in New York has condemned a Myanmar airstrike that killed dozens of civilians, including children, called it part of a “disturbing pattern” of indiscriminate…

By Anjali Sharma UNITED NATIONS – UN independent investigators on Tuesday have uncovered “systematic torture” in Myanmar’s military-run detention facilities including beatings, electric shocks, strangulations and gang rape a pattern of…

By Anjali Sharma UNITED NATIONS – UN warned on Thursday that the urgent humanitarian needs are going unmet due to escalating violence and blocked access from deadly floods, renewed fighting and widespread displacement in Myanmar. UN…

By Anjali Sharma       UNITED NATIONS – UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric on Wednesday told reporters in New York that the UN is deeply concerned over the situation of civilians caught up in Myanmar’s devastating and continuing conflict…

By Anjali Sharma UNITED NATIONS – World body on Tuesday said that it hopes that India could use its influence to get the Myanmar military regime, the National Unity Government and the ethnic groups to negotiate a peaceful solution to the…

By Anjali Sharma UNITED NATIONS - UN Development Programme Regional Representative in Myanmar Titon Mitra on Tuesday warned that people are sleeping in the streets in fear of buildings collapsing in central Myanmar and facing early monsoon…

By Anjali Sharma WASHINGTON – India Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that India supports efforts to build trust and advancing a Myanmar-owned and Myanmar-led transition towards a peaceful, stable and democratic future. He met…

By Anjali Sharma UNITED NATIONS - UN human rights chief Volker Türk said on Friday that Myanmar’s military has continued to launch airstrikes and other attacks against opposition forces in the devastated country, one week since a 7.7…

By Anjali Sharma UNITED NATIONS - UN aid agencies warned on Wednesday that the devastating earthquakes in Myanmar not only caused mass casualties and widespread destruction, they also deepened long-standing gender inequalities which left…