The world risks creating a “lost generation” of children in Myanmar unless it takes immediate steps to protect them from the violence perpetrated by the military since it seized power in February 2021, a United Nations (UN) human rights expert has said.“The junta’s relentless attacks on children underscore the generals’ depravity and willingness to inflict immense suffering on innocent victims in its attempt to subjugate the people of Myanmar,” Tom Andrews, UN Special Rapporteur on the situat

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The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) urged an "immediate" end to violence in Myanmar on Wednesday and for the junta to allow a special envoy tasked with facilitating talks to visit as soon as possible.The 10-nation regional bloc has led diplomatic efforts to end the chaos unleashed in Myanmar by the coup last year, which triggered mass protests and a deadly crackdown on dissent.But violence has continued, with anti-junta groups clashing regularly with the military and

Once the interrogation room doors shut behind Attasith Nussa, eight plainclothes officers descended upon him quickly.The leading officer approached the 35-year-old Thai pro-democracy protester and asked him if he came alone to the 29 October vigil in Bangkok.“I drove my motorcycle here alone,” Attasith recalled to Al Jazeera as telling his interrogators.Attasith said the same officer, dressed in a button-up shirt, then replied, “‘Well it’s good that you travelled alone.

Church leaders in Indonesia's conflict-wracked Papua region called for calm Sunday as thousands fled to shelters after a two-year-old boy was killed in a firefight between government troops and independence-seeking rebels.The restive region at the easternmost edge of the Southeast Asian archipelago has been the scene of intermittent clashes for decades in one of the world's longest-running insurgencies. This week, a two-year-old boy was killed in an exchange of gunfire whil

Myanmar's junta on Sunday labelled the United Nation's (UN) latest rights report on the conflict-wracked nation an "incitement to violence" and accused the body of interfering in its internal affairs.The Southeast Asian nation has been in chaos since a February coup, with more than 1,100 killed in a crackdown on dissent, according to a local monitoring group.On Friday, the UN said it feared an even greater human rights catastrophe amid reports that tens of thousands of tro

Israel’s attempt to justify its latest brutal assault on Gaza rings hollow to anybody familiar with events in Israel, where the government of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, backed by anti-Arab racists, has systematically, cruelly, and persistently violated the basic human rights of the Arab population. Human Rights Watch (HRW), a global non-governmental organisation (NGO) with many Jewish leaders, has recently condemned Israel for crimes against humanity.

Six opposition rebels have been killed after days of clashes in Myanmar, an anti-junta defence force made up of civilians said Sunday, as Britain and the United States (US) condemned the military's violence against civilians.Myanmar has been in uproar since the military ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi in a 1 February coup, triggering a massive uprising which authorities have sought to quell with lethal force. Pope Francis on Sunday called for an end to the bloodshed and

Beaten, kicked in the groin and threatened with sexual violence – a young Myanmar teenager detained by the junta's security forces has described the treatment suffered by some women and girls behind bars.Ma Chaw, 17, and her mother were arrested on 14 April in Yangon, Myanmar's commercial capital, which has been blanketed with heavy security since the military seized power in a coup.As they were walking to a friend's house from a morning protest, she said, they were stopped by

The sudden eruption of war outside and inside Israel’s borders has shocked a complacent nation. Throughout Binyamin Netanyahu’s 12-year premiership, the Palestinian problem was buried and forgotten. The recent Abraham Accords, establishing diplomatic relations with four Arab states, seemed to weaken the Palestinian cause further. Now it has re-emerged with a vengeance. Wars can be triggered by an isolated incident, but their cause is always deeper.