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Myanmar resistance leaders and international human rights groups are welcoming a new round of U.S. sanctions aimed at that country’s oil and gas sector, a major source of revenue for the ruling junta that seized power in February 2021. Additional sanctions announced simultaneously by the United States, Britain and Canada are hailed as evidence of…

We, the heads of over 50 human rights and humanitarian organizations are coming together to sound the alarm about Sudan, where a disaster is unfolding before our eyes. With fighting continuing across the country, brutal sexual violence rising, widespread deliberate and indiscriminate attacks on civilians, and journalists and human rights defenders being silenced, the country is no longer at the precipice of mass atrocities – it has fallen over the edge.

As the U.S. House of Representatives prepares for a historic vote this week on the bipartisan BURMA Act of 2021, a broad coalition of Myanmar diaspora community organisations and their allies have called on Congress to pass the “Burma Act of 2021” and send it swiftly to President Biden’s desk.

Share: WASHINGTON, April 17, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Energy giant Chevron is under fire for its decision to continue to support the Myanmar military, which has killed more than 700 people, including at least 47 children. On Friday, half a dozen demonstrations took place in cities around the US organized by the International Campaign for the Rohingya, SumOfUs, and many other groups -- in San Francisco, LA, Houston, Denver, New York and Washington DC. Photos/videos of the DC event can be found here at the SumOfUs flickr: Outside Chevron's offices in DC, Chevron's new DC lobbyist Craig Hall ...

Myanmar crackdown on protesters kills 25 as junta imposes 24-hour mobile internet shutdown Reuters At least 25 people were shot dead Monday as anti-coup protesters in multiple cities braved increasing violence by security forces following a bloody weekend that The junta that overthrew Aung San Suu Kyi's elected government on Feb. 1 also imposed a 24-hours shutdown of mobile internet service in an attempt to cut off lines of communication among protesters and other members of a nationwide civil disobedience movement (CDM) that has opposed military rule for six weeks. The suspe...