The UN’s Special Adviser on Myanmar, Vijay Nambiar, will attend the May 28 peace talks between the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) and the Myanmar government’s Peace Making Committee at Myitkyina, according to Kachin peace broker San Aung. (more…)
The United Nations on Monday praised the Myanmar government and army for its steps made toward ending the recruitment of child soldiers. (more…)
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) says long running insurgencies in Myanmar’s border regions have led to the growth in poppy production and the manufacture of methamphetamine. (more…)
The UN Development Programme (UNDP) will give a US$150 million development package to Myanmar under a three-year action plan, state-run newspaper The New Light of Myanmar reported on Tuesday.
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The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Burma human rights said Thursday he had received reports of “state involvement” in some of the recent violence between Buddhists and Muslims in the former army-ruled nation. (more…)
The top U.N. envoy to Myanmar on Sunday toured a central city wracked by the country’s worst Buddhist-Muslim violence this year, calling on the government to punish those responsible for a tragedy that left dozens of corpses piled in the streets, some of them charred beyond recognition. (more…)
The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Thursday decided to maintain its monitoring eye on Myanmar by extending the mandate of the UN Special Rapporteur for another year. (more…)
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said it has welcomed a contribution which more than doubles Japan’s support for its food assistance operations in Myanmar—from ¥ 814 million (US $10 million) last year to ¥ 2 billion (US$21 million) this year. (more…)
The United Nations special envoy for Myanmar has voiced deep sorrow at the tragic loss of lives and destruction in Meiktila township in Mandalay division, one of several areas that has been the scene of recent violence, and called on all segments of society to promote communal harmony. (more…)
Myanmar must launch an independent investigation into reports of widespread human rights violations, the United Nations’ top human rights body said Thursday.
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Myanmar has dismissed a United Nations report calling for urgent action to protect tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees this monsoon season. (more…)
The head of a UN delegation to Myanmar has said that he is greatly encouraged by the country’s reforms but stressed that transparency is needed in the area of foreign aid in Myanmar. (more…)
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today welcomed the outcome of the recent discussions in China between Myanmar’s peacemaking committee and the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) and their agreement to work toward a lasting ceasefire. (more…)
A spokesperson for UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says the world body is concerned by reports that Burma’s military took advantage of recent UN aid convoys in Kachin State to reinforce troops involved in the fight against the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO). (more…)
Ongoing reforms in Myanmar are improving the human rights situation in the country, but a large gap still remains between these efforts and their implementation on the ground, a United Nations independent expert said today. (more…)
As Myanmar readies to launch a pilot of its first national census in three decades on 30 March, activists and experts cite a number of challenges ahead of the actual count in 2014. (more…)
United Nations and international agencies for the first time in more than a year delivered badly-needed aid to hundreds of people in northern Myanmar’s Kachin state following a cease-fire and a de-escalation of violence, while warning of poor living conditions in communal shelters. (more…)
UNHCR on Friday said it was concerned about the growing number of people dying in the Bay of Bengal after setting out by boat in search of safety and better lives in other countries, including desperate ethnic Rohingya from Myanmar. The refugee agency called on regional governments to do more to prevent further tragedy on the high seas. (more…)
Human rights abuses are still occurring in Myanmar despite reforms by the quasi-civilian government, a U.N. rights envoy said on Saturday, singling out arbitrary arrest and torture of alleged ethnic Kachin rebels. (more…)
Human rights groups and analysts say the international community needs to pay attention to warnings from the United Nations rights envoy about on-going abuses in Burma. (more…)