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04 December 2022
UN says Myanmar sentences seven students to death
Soldiers stand guard on a street as tensions rise in Yangon, Myanmar. Photo: EPA
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10 August 2022
Mounting proof of crimes against humanity in...
UN investigators on Tuesday reported mounting evidence of crimes against humanity,...
UN ambassador Kyaw Moe Tun. Photo: OPCW/Flickr
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06 August 2022
Myanmar’s UN rep calls for resistance aid to...
Myanmar’s United Nations representative, who represents the alternative civilian National...
Attendees holding signs during a protest against the death penalty at Speakers’ Corner in Singapore in April. Photo: AFP
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03 August 2022
UN deplores double execution in Singapore
The United Nations said two men convicted of trafficking drugs were put to death in...
A street food vendor sets up his stall and waits for customers at Galle Face promenade in Colombo. Photo: Ishara S. KODIKARA / AFP
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25 June 2022
India rushes food, medicine to bankrupt Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka accepted a rice and pharmaceuticals shipment from neighbouring India Friday as...
Pro-democracy activist Kyaw Min Yu (left) and former lawmaker Phyo Zeya Thaw (right) would be the first people to be judicially executed in Myanmar in decades. Photo: AFP
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21 June 2022
Myanmar executions could be war crimes: UN
The Myanmar junta's plans to execute political opponents may amount to war crimes or...
Rohingya refugees walk a "Go home campaign" rally demanding repatriation at Kutupalong Rohingya camp in Cox's Bazar on June 19, 2022. Photo: AFP
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20 June 2022
Thousands of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh...
Tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh staged demonstrations on Sunday...
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet. Photo: EPA
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18 June 2022
Myanmar junta rejects UN rights criticism as...
Myanmar's ruling junta on Friday rejected criticism of its human rights record by the...
Pregnant women wait to get a dose of the Chinese-made Sinopharm Covid-19 coronavirus vaccine in Colombo on June 9, 2021. Photo: ISHARA S. KODIKARA / AFP
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17 June 2022
UN begins food relief for Sri Lanka's...
Thousands of impoverished women in Sri Lanka began receiving food aid Thursday as part of...
(FILES) This file undated handout photograph released by Myanmar's Military Information Team on January 21, 2022 shows democracy activist Kyaw Min Yu, also known as 'Jimmy', who rose to prominence during Myanmar's 1988 student uprising and was arrested in an overnight raid in October 2021. Photo: AFP
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05 June 2022
UN troubled by Myanmar junta executions plan
The United Nations says it is troubled by the plans of the Myanmar junta to execute a...
A photo released by the official North Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) shows North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong-un presiding over the third Plenary Meeting of the 8th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), in Pyongyang, North Korea, 18 June 2021. Photo: EPA
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27 May 2022
China, Russia veto US bid at UN to punish North...
China and Russia on Thursday vetoed a US-led bid at the United Nations to toughen...
Aung San Suu Kyi. Photo: EPA
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26 May 2022
Suu Kyi's family file detention complaint at...
Relatives of Myanmar's ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Wednesday filed a complaint...
Members of the Muslim Uyghur minority present pictures of their relatives detained in China during a news conference in Istanbul. Photo: AFP
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23 May 2022
China's Xinjiang crackdown under scrutiny...
China's crackdown on Muslim minorities in the remote region of Xinjiang will return to...

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