The UN’s IIMM said impunity was emboldening the perpetrators, mainly junta forces, to commit further violence, and urged that steps be taken to prosecute them.

Deprived of opportunity and security by the coup, they scrape by doing hard jobs for little pay in Thailand, living in fear of being arrested and sent back to Myanmar.

Myanmar’s armed conflict has disrupted cement production while the regime is promising large quantities will be imported in ...

The regime denies that it intends to recruit women for military service but officials continue to locate unmarried females aged 18 to 27.

Coming home from a shopping trip, the young man was beaten, forced into a car, and sold into conscription for 5 million kyats. Only at the last minute did he give his captors the slip.