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Myanmar faces rising displacement and unacceptable hunger levels

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World Food Programme

YANGON, Myanmar – More than 12 million people in Myanmar will face acute hunger in 2026, with a projected one million people hitting emergency levels that will require lifesaving assistance, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned today. Intensifying conflict and a sharp jump in displacement now risks pushing an underfunded hunger crisis to breaking point.

The people of Myanmar already face dire levels of hunger; a place where mothers cannot afford enough food to sustain their health, and malnutrition has become a new reality for thousands of children. More than 400,000 young children and mothers with acute malnutrition are surviving on nutrient-deprived diets of plain rice or watery porridge.

“Conflict and deprivation are converging to strip away people’s basic means of survival, yet the world isn’t paying attention,” said Michael Dunford, WFP Country Director in Myanmar. “This is one of the worst hunger crises on the planet, and one of the least funded. We cannot allow this level of suffering to remain invisible. The scale of need is far outpacing our ability to respond.”

Internal displacement is expected to rise from 3.6 million to 4 million next year, according to the latest United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Myanmar Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan. This surge threatens to push millions of households who are barely coping into extreme deprivation.

“We’re on the ground. We’re delivering food and nutrition every day under extremely challenging conditions. But we are massively underfunded,” said Dunford. “The international community must act. Sustained funding and diplomatic support are needed to stop this crisis worsening next year.”

In 2026, WFP aims to assist 1.3 million people — a fraction of the more than 12 million in need — with humanitarian support requiring a budget of US$125 million.

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Myanmar confirms 180,000 Rohingya eligible to return, Bangladesh says

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Aljazeera.com

The 180,000 names were part of a list of 800,000 Rohingya that Bangladesh submitted to Myanmar in six batches, Bangladesh government says.

Rohingya refugees wait in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
Rohingya refugees wait at the World Food Programme distribution centre to buy grocery items in Cox’s Bazaar [File: Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters]

Published On 4 Apr 20254 Apr 2025

Myanmar has confirmed that 180,000 Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh since fleeing their homeland are eligible to return, the Bangladeshi government has said.

Friday’s announcement, following talks in Bangkok, offered a possible breakthrough in the long-stalled repatriation process, although many Rohingya refugees say all of them should be allowed to go home.

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Singapore: Investigating exploitation and abuse of young domestic workers

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Al Jazeera English – 12-3-2025

There are more than 200,000 foreign domestic workers in Singapore.

Under the law, they have to be at least 23 years old.

But one NGO says it is seeing more and more minors at its shelter for abused maids.

Most of these girls come from Myanmar, where investigations reveal a web of deceit and corruption in the recruitment process, and immigration officials are regularly bribed to doctor birthdates on travel documents.

Because of their youth, the girls are often easy targets for abusive employers and sexual predators.

But just how bad is the problem and what is being done to remedy it? 101 East investigates.

Myanmar’s military rule is crippling hope for young people like never before

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theconversation.com Published: March 12, 2025 5.03pm GMT

Myanmar has struggled with civil war, military rule and widespread poverty for much of the past seven decades. But the country’s youth have never faced threats to their survival and future as severe as today.

The military coup of February 2021 shattered the hopes of many young people in Myanmar who had envisioned a better and more stable future under their democratically elected leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.

As brutal crackdowns on peaceful protests unfolded, thousands of young people fled to the jungles to take up arms. Hundreds of thousands more joined the civil disobedience movement, abandoning their studies to protest military rule through demonstrations and strikes.

A map of Myanmar showing the military situation there as of February 4.
The military situation in Myanmar as of February 4 2025. Wikimedia Commons

Myanmar’s armed opposition has made significant gains over the past year, seizing vast territories from the military – though the latter still controls major cities like Naypyidaw, Yangon, and Mandalay.

Amid the surging violence, young people in Myanmar are finding themselves even more deprived of opportunities and increasingly forced into submission.

In February 2024, Myanmar’s junta declared mandatory military service for men aged 18 to 35 and women aged 18 to 27. Those who do not comply face up to five years in prison.

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What’s happening in Myanmar?

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Al Jazeera English – 1- 2- 2025

Myanmar’s military regime is under pressure, four years after it seized back power in a coup. The military has lost significant territory and a patchwork of anti-military groups now control different parts of the country. What’s happening? Who are the groups fighting against the military? And could the regime actually fall? #AJStartHere with Sandra Gathmann explains

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A hidden war

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Two fighters in fatigues sitting in the back of a truck.
In southern Karenni, Myanmar. Adam Ferguson for The New York Times

NYTBy Hannah Beech I’m a roving Asia correspondent based in Bangkok.

A people take to arms and fight for democracy. A military terrorizes civilians with airstrikes and land mines. Tens of thousands are killed. Millions are displaced.

Yet it is all happening almost completely out of view.

Recently, I spent a week on the front lines of a forgotten war in the Southeast Asian nation of Myanmar. Since a military junta overthrew a civilian administration there three years ago, a head-spinning array of pro-democracy forces and ethnic militias have united to fight the generals. The resistance includes poets, doctors and lawyers who traded life in the cities for jungle warfare. It also includes veteran combatants who have known no occupation but soldier.

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Nội chiến Myanmar trước ngã ba đường

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CAND – Thứ Hai, 27/11/2023, 08:20

Gần hai năm rưỡi trôi qua kể từ khi quân đội Myanmar (Tatmadaw) tiến hành đảo chính lật đổ chính phủ dân sự dưới sự lãnh đạo của bà Aung San Suu Kyi, đất nước Myanmar chìm trong những cuộc giao tranh đẫm máu giữa Tatmadaw và Lực lượng phòng vệ nhân dân (PDF). Kết quả là đến nay, nhiều vùng lãnh thổ rộng lớn đã nằm trong tay PDF…

Một người lính PDF với trang bị hiện đại.

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In bad faith – 3 parts

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Hinduism, Weaponised: A Secular India Under Threat | In Bad Faith – Part 1 | CNA Documentary

CNA – Insider 9-4-2022

We investigate the reasons behind the weaponisation of Hinduism by the Rastriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a right-wing, paramilitary volunteer organisation that aims to create a Hindu Rashtra – a subcontinent only for the Hindus.

From supporting cow vigilantes in Rajasthan attacking Muslim cattle traders to spreading Islamophobia across RSS-backed television stations, why understand why India’s secular fabric is under threat. Tiếp tục đọc “In bad faith – 3 parts” →

14,000 displaced in Myanmar after record rain sparks floods

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Residents of Myanmar’s flood-hit Bago city navigate the city’s submerged streets, salvaging food and belongings from their waterlogged homes, after record rainfall triggered floods that authorities said have displaced 14,000 people. “My house is flooded. This is the first time my house has been flooded in my life,” says Phwar Than Hme, a 101-year-old resident of Bago.

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Six years of Rohingya exodus: Food crisis and fears of a ‘lost generation’

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Aljazeera.com

Refugees observe August 25 as ‘Genocide Day’ to demand justice and safe and voluntary repatriation to their homes in Myanmar.

Rohingya exodus
Nearly a million Rohingya refugees live in cramped camps in southern Bangladesh [Faisal Mahmud/Al Jazeera]

By Faisal Mahmud Published On 25 Aug 202325 Aug 2023

Dhaka, Bangladesh – Mohammad Jalil still has nightmares recounting the harrowing journey he took last October on a rickety boat in the Bay of Bengal.

Jalil, a 26-year-old Rohingya refugee from Bangladesh’s Kutupalong camp, paid around $1,500 to an agent who promised him a safe journey to Malaysia.

A month later, he found himself on board an overcrowded fishing trawler drifting aimlessly on a fierce sea for about a week.

“We had no food and the children were crying in hunger. The people who were in charge of the trawler beat us mercilessly. On the ninth or 10th day – I can’t remember – the boat sank,” Jalil told Al Jazeera.

He, along with a few others, swam for hours before being rescued by the Bangladeshi coastguard.

“Some women and children couldn’t make it and drowned,” he said. “All my money is gone. I have lost everything.”

Rohingya exodus
Mohammad Jalil made an unsuccessful bid to flee to Malaysia last year [Faisal Mahmud/Al Jazeera]
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H&M says it will “phase out” sourcing from Myanmar

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reuters.com

August 17, 20238:38 PM GMT+7Updated 6 days ago

Workers tailor and arrange clothing at a garment factory at Hlaing Tar Yar industry zone in Yangon

LONDON, Aug 17 (Reuters) – The world’s second-biggest fashion retailer H&M (HMb.ST) has decided to gradually stop sourcing from Myanmar, it told Reuters on Thursday, as reports of labour abuses in garment factories in the country increase.

H&M became the latest brand to cut ties with suppliers in the country after Zara owner Inditex (ITX.MC), Primark (ABF.L), Marks & Spencer (MKS.L) and others.

“After careful consideration we have now taken the decision to gradually phase out our operations in Myanmar,” H&M said in an email to Reuters.

“We have been monitoring the latest developments in Myanmar very closely and we see increased challenges to conduct our operations according to our standards and requirements.”

‘Increasingly brazen’ war crimes evident in Myanmar

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UN.org

Two soldiers stand guard at a post in northern Myanmar. (file)

IRIN/Steve Sandford. Two soldiers stand guard at a post in northern Myanmar. (file)

Human Rights

The Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar (IIMM) on Tuesday revealed compelling evidence of the country’s military and affiliate militias engaging in more frequent and audacious war crimes and crimes against humanity.

These include indiscriminate attacks on civilians from aerial bombing, mass executions of civilians and detained combatants, and large-scale and intentional burning of civilian homes and buildings, resulting in the destruction of entire villages in some cases, the Mechanism said in a news release.

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Myanmar Gen Z guerillas are fighting in a brutal civil war that everyone is ignoring

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independentt.co.uk

KNLA fighters at their base (Channel 4 News)

way from the eyes of the world, a brutal civil war is intensifying in Myanmar. Thousands of civilians have been killed, including more than 150 in a devastating airstrike last week.

The repressive military regime that seized power two years ago doesn’t allow journalists to report freely inside the country, as it attempts to suppress coverage, but following painstaking negotiations with local contacts, we travelled secretly into rebel-controlled territory in order to document the conflict. Only a handful of other international journalists have been able to make the journey: young men and women who were once peaceful protesters are now part of an armed rebellion, sacrificing their lives in the hope of being able to restore democracy. We were given rare access to the Generation Z guerrillas who have been on the frontlines.

Not far from the banks of the idyllic Salween River, which divides Thailand and Myanmar, a white pick-up truck is speeding towards us. The men inside look like professional soldiers, dressed in camouflage uniforms and clutching automatic weapons. But one is a former baker, while another used to be an engineer. In fact, most of them had never even held a gun until a military coup in 2021.

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Traffickers switch to Myanmar after China erects border fence

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The electrified metal fence, topped with razor wire and cameras, has prompted criminals to seek out new destinations.

China’s new ‘mega fence’, seen here in Ha Giang, runs for more than 1,000km along its border with Vietnam, Laos and Myanmar. [Courtesy of Blue Dragon Children’s Foundation]

By Chris Humphrey

Aljazeera – Published On 24 May 202324 May 2023

Hanoi, Vietnam – When she arrived at her destination in Myanmar’s northern Shan state, expecting to start a new job, Diep* a 19-year-old Vietnamese woman, realised she had been trafficked.

Left in a locked room alone, she could hear other people but not see them. Armed men were guarding the house.

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Myanmar is a failing state, led by a junta fuelled by Russian arms, says UN rights envoy

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theguardian.com

Civilians are being killed by Russian weapons just like in Ukraine, says special rapporteur Tom Andrews in call for global action

A man sits in front of a house destroyed by the Myanmar junta’s air strike.

A man sits in front of a house destroyed by a Myanmar junta air strike. The UN special rapporteur for human rights there has called for an arms embargo. Photograph: SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images

Rebecca Ratcliffe South-east Asia correspondentWed 15 Mar 2023 19.00 GMT

Myanmar is a “failing state” and the crisis is getting exponentially worse, a UN special rapporteur for the country has warned, urging countries to adopt the same unified resolve that followed the invasion of Ukraine.

“The same types of weapons that are killing Ukrainians are killing people in Myanmar,” Tom Andrews, special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, told the Guardian in an interview, citing the supply of Russian weapons to the junta since the coup two years ago. The junta relies heavily on aircraft from China and Russia, and has increasingly resorted to airstrikes to attempt to quell determined resistance forces.

The international response to Myanmar has been inadequate and some countries are continuing to enable the junta’s atrocities, Andrews said, calling for an arms embargo.

A man sits in front of a house that was burned by a military air strike

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