In Naypyitaw and beyond, forced conscription raids intensify under the junta’s 2024 draft law, with recruits taken at gunpoint and many going into hiding to evade service ...

Elephants are playing important roles in the country’s civil war, but the conflict casts a dark shadow over their future.

The junta’s recruitment of child soldiers has surged, Human Rights Watch said in a report on June 20, a significant number enlisted since it introduced mandatory military service. So far the military ...

Myanmar's ruling junta installed a conscription law last year. Young people are desperately trying to escape, but hope is ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Friday called for the Myanmar military to stop the recruitment and use of child soldiers. Since the junta took over Myanmar in the 2021 coup, the recruitment and use of ...

The Myanmar military's recruitment and use of child soldiers has surged since the 2021 coup, including a significant number ...

Myanmar fashion supply chain scrutiny urged as ILO steps up pressure on military junta. The International Labour Conference (ILC) has implemented Article 33 of the ILO Constitution, intensifying ...

However, due to the military’s entrenched position within the state, a new military junta—the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC), led by military Generals including Than Shwe—seized power ...

BANGKOK (AP) — A military fighter jet crashed and burned Tuesday in an area that has seen intense fighting during Myanmar’s civil war, with a rebel group claiming to have shot it down while state-run ...

The regime continues to enforce the Conscription Law enacted in February last year and has banned eligible adults from leaving the country. Under Article 33 of the ILO Constitution, the governing body ...

With the military controlling only 21% of Myanmar, according to a November 2024 assessment by the BBC, threats to Chinese investments have intensified as the junta continues to lose territory.

I n March a 7.7 magnitude earthquake hit Myanmar, in which 3,740 people died. And yet the earthquake is not the main humanitarian crisis in that troubled country. Since Myanmar’s military junta ...