Highlights: The average retail price of rice and cooking oil continue an upward trend. Since January, the average retail price of rice has increased 5% across monitored markets, with higher increases...
Introduction The signing of the 2012 preliminary ceasefire, followed by the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) in 2015 resulted in an overall improvement of the human rights and security situation...
This Short Update describes events that occurred in Hsaw Htee [Shwegyin] Township, Kler Lwee Htoo District on April 6th 2021. Tatmadaw[1] soldiers from an unidentified battalion confiscated two...
This Incident Report describes events that occurred in Kaw Nweh village tract, Kaw T’Ree Township, Dooplaya District. On the evening of March 26th 2021, several mortar rounds were fired at A---...
SITUATION ANALYSIS Early July 2020, the Ayeyarwady River water level has raised due to heavy rainfall especially in Amarapuya township in Mandalay. 19 July 2020, the Ayeyarwady river dike broke near...
SITUATION ANALYSIS Description of the disaster On 02 July 2020 at 7:30 am local time, the Government of Myanmar reported the landslide on Jade mine in Laku Creek, Ward-6, Wahkar village in Phakant...
Highlights • The crisis following the military takeover on 1 February is likely to have a severe impact on the physical and mental wellbeing of children and will exacerbate existing humanitarian...
Since the military takeover against the democratically elected government on 1 February, mass protests, met with excessive force by police and military, have continued unabated across the country and...
This Situation Update describes events that occurred in Lenya Bokpyin Special Area [Township], MerguiTavoy District in August and September 2020. In Chaung Mon and Kaw Baw areas, local villagers were...
Situation Update Seven weeks following the military takeover on 1 February 2021, the situation in Myanmar is evolving rapidly, with a high risk of increasing food insecurity and malnutrition,...
HIGHLIGHTS • The political crisis is having an impact on supply chains and markets, as food prices rise across the country, with significant increases for some basic commodities in Kachin and Rakhine...
This Short Update describes events that occurred in Yay Kyaw Gyi village tract, Kaw T’Ree [Kawkareik] Township, Dooplaya District on February 26th 2021. On that day, Tatmadaw soldiers entered a Karen...
HIGHLITGHTS The effects of the current political crisis are reflecting in the retail prices, the biggest price increases so far have been observed in northern Rakhine where the average retail price...
During February 26 - March 4, 2021, Mercy Corps’ Market Analysis Unit (MAU) conducted phone interviews with 25 shipping providers serving humanitarian and commercial clients in Rakhine State and...
This Situation Update describes events that occurred in Moo [Mone] Township, Kler Lwee Htoo [Nyaunglebin] District between August 2020 and October 2020. Gold mining activities along the Klaw Myaw,...
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Situation Overview By mid-year 2020, there were an estimated 1.9 million persons of concern to UNHCR from Myanmar in the Asia-Pacific region. The vast majority—about 1.6 million—were Rohingya, a...
Message from the Head of the Mechanism Geneva, 28 February 2021 - I am deeply concerned by the statement of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights reporting that they have received...
This Short Update describes events that occurred in Bu Tho Township, Mu Traw District in December 2020 and January 2021. On December 29th 2020, the Tatmadaw[1] destroyed old ordnance on land...
Introduction This Field Report analyses information collected by KHRG field researchers during the period between July and December 2020. As the COVID-19[1] pandemic entered into the second wave of...
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SITUATION AT A GLANCE 1 MILLION People in Need of Humanitarian Assistance in BurmaUN – January 2021 104,475 IDPs in Burma’s Kachin and Northern ShanUN – December 2020 130,000 IDPs—Originally...