Ethnic minorities in Myanmar

(File) Rohingya Muslims assists an elderly woman as they enter Bangladesh near the Bangladesh-Myanmar border in Teknaf, Bangladesh, 04 September 2017. Photo: EPA
News
01 September 2023
UN chief calls on international community to protect Rohingya and other minorities in Myanmar
Members of the Shan ethnic minority wearing traditional Shan dress make the three-finger salute as others hold signs during a demonstration against the Myanmar military coup in Inle lake, Shan state on February 11, 2021. Photo: AFP
News
25 July 2023
Uniting Ethnic Minorities in Myanmar: A...
Could federal democracy be taking root among the Bamar, the ethnic majority that has...
(File) A Rohingya refugee people walks on a road along the makeshift camp in Ukhia, Cox's Bazar district, Bangladesh, 30 July 2020. Photo: EPA
News
12 August 2022
Ethnic minorities missing from census, say...
Ethnic minorities have been undercounted in Bangladesh's latest census, Indigenous...
(File) In this file photo taken on January 25, 2019, Mro ethnic women with children displaced from the surge of fighting between ethnic armed rebel group of the Arakan Army and government troops take refuge at a compound of a Buddhist pagoda are seen during a government-organised visit for journalists in Buthidaung township in the restive Rakhine state. Photo: AFP
Election 2020
25 October 2020
Myanmar vote ban extinguishes hope for some...
For many marginalised ethnic minority groups in conflict-plagued regions of Myanmar, next...
Kachin refugees in Wine Maw township. Photo: Mizzima
News
24 August 2019
Ethnic minorities targeted with ‘sexual violence...
The UN has called for an end to the use of sexual and gender-based violence to terrorize...