The International Court of Justice is expected to deliver its ruling in the genocide case against Myanmar next month.
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Southeast Asian leaders say direct diplomacy with Myanmar is the only way to end the five-year civil war. Opponents of the military regime aren’t convinced.
The war in Myanmar draws far less western attention than Ukraine or the Middle East. Why is such an enduring and intractable conflict being treated with so little urgency?
In Myanmar and Gaza, sanitary products are next to non-existent. It’s having a catastrophic impact on women and girls.
China may be pivotal to the outcome.
Not all victims of scam compounds are unwilling —and that’s what makes the system so hard to dismantle.
Countries don’t just switch from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources. Each takes its own path, depending on its economy, international trade relations and government stability.
The Burmese meditation master Sayagyi U Ba Khin played a key role in shaping the meditation retreats that are popular today.
As violence escalates around the world, victims are increasingly looking for justice in domestic courts, rather than international ones.
Far from being free and fair, the elections lack any meaningful resemblance to democratic practice.
Asymmetric checkpoint controls keep Myanmar’s scam economy alive.
The wheels of international justice grind exceedingly slowly and will never be sufficient on their own to bring about lasting change.
Myanmar’s generals are planning an election the opposition has slammed as a sham. They could see Trump’s interest in the country as a way of legitimising the polls.
Thousands were killed in 7.7 magnitude earthquake. Yet military generals were slow to agree to pause in civil war fighting, and continued airstrikes.
USAID accounted for a third of Myanmar’s foreign aid last year. Now, this funding is gone as the country grapples with a devastating earthquake.
US cuts in overseas aid will hurt the myriad opposition groups that have been fighting the army in a complex and regionalized conflict.
Over the past year, Myanmar’s military junta has been enforcing mandatory conscription, targeting men and women of working age.
The final part of our Scam Factories podcast series, tracks how people escape from Southeast Asia’s brutal scamming compounds.
The second episode of Scam Factories, a podcast series from The Conversation Weekly taking you inside Southeast Asia’s brutal fraud compounds.
Sanctions drive nations towards building domestic industries to replace imported goods and strengthening alliances with supportive countries.
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