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10,000 displaced by renewed fighting in Myanmar’s Chin state

The United Nations has earlier called for urgent help to assist an estimated 100,000 people who have fled fighting in Kayah state

Sri Lanka faces UN scrutiny over civil war crimes

United Nations believes 80,000-100,000 people died in the 26-year conflict

UN makes first visit to remote Bangladesh island since Rohingya moved

Bangladesh wants to eventually transfer 100,000 of the more than 1 million refugees living in overcrowded border camps to the island

UN ‘deeply worried’ over Philippine killings, Duterte’s violent rhetoric

Church groups expressed alarm at the killings and concern about ‘red-tagging’ of opponents as communists or terrorists

UNICEF warns coronavirus pandemic can result in millions of child marriages

Child marriage increases risk of early and unplanned pregnancy, in turn increasing risk of maternal complications and mortality

North Korea measures to stem COVID-19 worsen abuses, hunger, UN expert...

Deaths by starvation have been reported, as has an increase in number of children and elderly people begging, investigator says

At least 18 dead as junta cracks down on anti-coup protests...

Deaths occurred as a result of live ammunition fired into crowds by security forces in at least five cities

Sri Lanka govt ‘aggressively attacking efforts’ to address rights abuses

Trials of military and intelligence officials accused of enforced disappearances have been delayed and disrupted, says rights group

UN rights boss calls for sanctions on Sri Lankan ex-commanders

Sri Lanka remains in a state of denial about its past, UN human rights chief says

UN rights experts ask Sri Lanka to stop forced cremations

Policy of forced cremation of Muslims who died of COVID-19 is based on discrimination, aggressive nationalism and ethnocentrism, experts claim

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