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The government has been accused of abandoning Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh after cutting aid to the humanitarian response by more than 40%, reports the Guardian. “Dominic Raab talks the talk but he doesn’t walk the walk on Burma. He likes…

The British government has announced “shocking” cuts to its aid in support of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, reports Dhaka Tribune. “Even in a climate where aid cuts were expected due to the government’s broken promise of delivering 0.7% of GNI…

Timber and gems exports from Burma are worth billions of dollars a year, and now that the military have seized government departments at gunpoint, that money will be going to the military. This money will help pay for the bullets…

Wai Hnin Pwint Thon, campaigns officer at Burma Campaign UK, and the daughter of a man serving a 65-year jail sentence in Myanmar for his part in the 2007 protests, gave France 24 her take on the current situation. Wai…

The European Union has slapped asset freezes and visa bans on 11 members of the Burmese junta linked to the military coup on February 1 and a brutal crackdown on protesters, reports the Telegraph. “After seven weeks of delay, the…

Wai Hnin Pwint Thon, Burma Campaign UK’s Campaigns Officer, testified today to the United State Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. She thanked the US for being first to act after the coup and called for US leadership in taking diplomatic,…

Australia has suspended its defence cooperation programme with Burma amid concern about the “escalating violence and rising death toll”. “Australia has finally ended a training programme it should never have started in the first place,” said Anna Roberts, the executive…

Australia is under international fire over its continued military assistance to Burma, after at least 38 people, including four children, were killed in the deadliest day of the junta’s crackdown against pro-democracy protests. Australia is one of only 13 countries…

The United Nations General Assembly today held an informal meeting to hear a briefing by the Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General on Myanmar, Christine Schraner Burgener. Watch the UNGA meeting

Hundreds of thousands of anti-coup protesters flooded the streets of Burma’s cities following calls for a nationwide strike against the military takeover, and defying the junta’s warnings that confrontation could cost lives. Protesters noted the significance of the date 22.2.2021,…