Campaign News

Aung San Suu Kyi’s status has sunk to a new despicable low, according to the National, after she met prime minister Viktor Orban in Budapest, and agreed with him that “one of the greatest challenges … is migration [and] continuously growing Muslim…

Coconuts Yangon reports that Aung San Suu Kyi, meeting Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban, agreed with him that “one of the greatest challenges” facing their countries is “migration” and how to “co-exist” with “continuously growing Muslim populations.” “Aung San Suu…

Burma Campaign UK on Wednesday called on Facebook to ban nearly 30 pages belonging to the Myanmar military and military-backed companies, reports the Irrawaddy. Although Facebook had previously removed military pages, fake accounts and military mouthpiece pages, the statement said,…

Facebook now has 18 million local users in Burma and is a parallel space for the conflict in Rakhine State, reports the website Coda Story. In late 2018, and again in early 2019, Facebook announced it had dismantled sweeping “Coordinated…

A decision by New York Times Style Magazine editors to pair an article on Burma’s struggles with its “brutal history and violent present” with a high-end fashion shoot has prompted a social media backlash, says Coconuts Yangon. “Using genocide to…

The UN’s fact-finding mission to Burma is calling for the military to be totally isolated, reports the Voice of America, because the leadership has done little to address widespread rights abuses around the country. The fact-finding mission is now seeking…

The World Bank is considering granting a $100 million loan to Burma to implement a “Rakhine Recovery and Development Support Project”, reports Coconuts Yangon. But rather than address the violence against Rohingya Muslims that has driven hundreds of thousands of…

Anna Roberts and Wai Hnin of Burma Campaign UK were at the teachers trade union NASUWT conference in Belfast this weekend. Lots of support for our campaign, including access to education for Rohingya children. Wai Hnin, Burma campaign UK’s Campaigns…

Mizzima reports on Burma Campaign UK’s call to the UK government to spend more on humanitarian aid to refugees and internally displaced people. The proportion of British aid spent on humanitarian aid, which helps refugees and internally displaced people, has…

One of three Kachin activists jailed for six months just for organising peaceful protests to help free villagers trapped in the jungle after the army attacked their villages has been released, reports Mizzima. Nang Pu was released on 5 April…