Myanmar junta extends fragile ceasefire for earthquake relief amid allegations of escalating violence - Temporary truce ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Tuerk, poses for a picture. Christiane Oelrich/dpa Violence is on the rise in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New York – Members of the Rohingya community who fled violence in Myanmar have addressed a United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) ...

In a request submitted to the International Criminal Court on Wednesday, lawyers included an unusual annex: 20 pages of purple thumbprints. These are the equivalent of signatures from 400 Rohingya ...

The UN human rights office has said Myanmar is witnessing intensified violence, repression and intimidation in the buildup to military-controlled elections that have been widely branded as a sham to ...

BANGKOK (AP) — A nationwide strike marked the one-year anniversary Tuesday of the army’s seizure of power in Myanmar, as protests and sporadic violence across the country renewed concern over the ...

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — A court in Myanmar has sentenced two men to death for the rape and murder of a Buddhist woman whose killing last month helped set off communal violence in which more than 50 ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday appealed to Myanmar's authorities to put an end to the violence in Rakhine state and take steps to provide Muslim Rohingyas there with "a normal life." ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is appalled by the escalating violence in Myanmar and the resulting human suffering and displacement this is causing. We are shocked by the indiscriminate violence ...

KUTUPALONG CAMP, Bangladesh – Barefoot and running for her life, Rohingya Dilara, 20, reached Bangladesh in recent days clutching her young son, her family torn apart by violence in Myanmar. “My ...