Updates

WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS In the South-East, the total number of IDPs continues to increase, from 253,100 last week to 258,300 this week. 5,200 individuals were verified during the week of 16 May 2022. In...

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SITUATION AT A GLANCE 6.2 MILLION People Targeted for Humanitarian Assistance in Burma UN – January 2022 605,900 People Displaced Since February 2021 Who Remain IDPs in Burma UNHCR – May 2022 126,000...

Save the Children is deeply saddened by the deaths of at least 17 people, including children, when a boat carrying 90 Rohingya refugees capsized off the coast of Myanmar on Saturday. Several of the...

Human Rights Council Forty-seventh session 21 June–9 July 2021 Agenda item 6 Universal periodic review Introduction The Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review, established in accordance with...

INDIA & BANGLADESH Heavy pre-monsoon rains since mid-May have resulted in widespread flooding and landslides in north-eastern India and eastern Bangladesh. As of 23 May, 47 people have lost their...

In the first week of April, the total number of IDPs rose from 231,800 last week to 234,600, the highest displacement number since end of January. About 9,700 new IDPs were verified with a...

WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS In the South-East, the total of IDPs continue to increase, reaching a total of 253,100. The week, the situation deteriorated in Bago East, especially in Shwegyin Township where...

On 1 February 2021 the Myanmar armed forces (known as the Tatmadaw) seized control of the country following a general election that the National League for Democracy (NLD) party won by a landslide...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is shocked and saddened by reports that more than a dozen Rohingya – including children – have perished at sea off the coast of Myanmar over the weekend. While details...

Genocidal acts continue as military junta defies provisional measures ordered by International Court of Justice In its new briefing, the Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK) provides evidence...

Tokyo Should Cut Military Ties, Pressure Junta to End Atrocities (Tokyo) – A Myanmar air force lieutenant colonel who received military training in Japan is deployed with forces that have been...

This Short Update describes events that occurred in Htaw Ta’Htoo (Htantabin) Township, Taw Oo (Toungoo) District, during the period between March and April 2022. In March 2022, State Administration...

Last week in the East Asia Pacific region, fighting continued between the Myanmar military and local resistance groups in Myanmar. North Korea conducted two missile tests. In the Philippines,...

The MIMU 5W gathers inputs from participating humanitarian and development agencies on Who is doing What, Where, When and for Whom across Myanmar. It is normally conducted every 6 months and provides...

This interview describes events that occurred in Kaw T’Ree (Kawkareik) Township, Dooplaya District in March 2022. The SAC LIB #355 indiscriminately fired a mortar shell into Htee Moo Hta village, Noh...

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In Rakhine State, 68,642 persons remain displaced as of the 5th of May 2022 in ten townships as a result of clashes between the Arakan Army and the Myanmar Armed Forces. UNHCR, in collaboration with...