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The US State Department Tuesday released its annual Trafficking in Persons Report which held China and 10 other countries responsible for enabling the practice of human trafficking within their borders. The report surveys and evaluates the trafficking prevention efforts of 188 countries, and US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken estimated that 25 million people remain [...]

A court in Myanmar Wednesday sentenced deposed civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi to five years in prison after finding her guilty of corruption. Suu Kyi was convicted of accepting about USD $1.3 million in gold and cash from a political colleague. She has denied the allegations. This is the first of several corruption cases [...]

The US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) Monday released its 2022 annual report, which noted “significant regress” in countries such as Afghanistan and the Central African Republic. As part of its report, USCIRF recommended that the US Department of State designate 15 countries as “countries of particular concern” (CPCs), as their governments are involved [...]

The US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York and the US Drug Enforcement Agency announced Thursday that they had arrested four men accused of international narcotics and weapons trafficking offenses. Three of the men were Thai nationals, but Takeshi Ebisawa is a Japanese national who US authorities allege is a part of [...]

The United States House of Representatives Wednesday passed the Burma Act of 2021. The Burma Act requires the Department of State to report to Congress on the military coup in Burma (Myanmar), including a description of US efforts to (1) engage with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to support a return to Burma’s democratic transition [...]

The US Treasury Department, in coordination with the governments of Canada and the UK, issued additional sanctions Friday against five Myanmar individuals and five Myanmar entities for their roles in procuring weapons and equipment for the military regime. The sanctions were leveled just days prior to Myanmar’s Armed Forces Day, March 27. On Armed Forces [...]

The European Council voted to adopt a fourth round of sanctions against Myanmar Monday, citing a “continuing grave situation intensifying human rights violations in Myanmar” in the aftermath of the 2021 military coup. Previous EU sanctions have targeted weapons and equipment, an export ban on goods used by the military and border guard and a [...]

It’s been one full year since Myanmar has come once again under military rule. Since the February 1, 2021 coup, the poverty-stricken Southeast Asian nation has attracted international media attention, but for the wrong reasons. The country, with a 60 million population of varied ethnicities, continues to witness public protests against the junta, counter military [...]

Myanmar law students are reporting for JURIST on challenges to the rule of law in their country under the military junta that deposed the civilian government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021. In this exclusive JURIST dispatch,  law student Theint Sandi Soe tells in her own words, in English, the story of her [...]

Myanmar law students are reporting for JURIST on challenges to the rule of law in their country under the military junta that deposed the civilian government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021. In this dispatch, one of our law students reflects on the one-year anniversary of the military coup on February 1. The [...]