The NUG has issued a directive against engaging children in combat operations. Some groups that are not its affiliates continue to deploy children as fighters. A child functionary of the Chin National ...

(Reuters) -Myanmar's ruling junta said on Friday it had already discharged 93 minors from military service, countering a United Nations report last month that accused it and allies of recruiting more ...

YANGON, (April 2, 2025) - Children living in the open in Myanmar after being forced from their homes by the deadly earthquake are at additional risk of heat-related illnesses as temperatures in parts ...

The United Nations said on Friday that Myanmar unprecedently has the highest number of civilian causalities from anti-personnel landmines, with children making up over a third of these numbers. UN ...

Twelve-year-old Myat Noe dashes between tables taking orders and sweeping up cigarette butts, working for around a dollar a day in Myanmar, which has one of the worst records for child labour in the ...

U.N.-backed investigators say they have found significant evidence of “systematic torture” at Myanmar detention centers, where the military government is holding children as young as 2 years old as ...

YANGON/BANGKOK, (March 31, 2025) – On the morning that Myanmar’s 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck, 16-year-old student Yoon May* was having lunch at home in Mandalay and contemplating napping when she ...

Myanmar junta detained children as young as two years old and subjected them to torture, sexual abuse, and beatings to often use them as proxies for their parents, a United Nations-led investigation ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “This is a crisis on top of another crisis for children in Myanmar. So even before this earthquake, 6 million children in Myanmar ...

UNICEF is rushing emergency supplies to families struggling to survive the aftermath of Myanmar’s deadliest earthquake in decades. More help is urgently needed. On March 31, 2025, a woman with two ...