Author: Coordinator
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200 million datapoints show general public still rejects military rule
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Our recent report on the military’s suppression of independent media during Myanmar’s elections included a rare, data-driven picture of public attitudes toward military rule since the 2021 coup, based on sentiment analysis of 194.7 million Facebook reactions.
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Myanmar’s delayed UPR shows more failed UN protection
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The UN’s ongoing delay of Myanmar’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) has undermined international scrutiny of the country’s human rights record. Myanmar’s third UPR was never completed in 2021 following the coup, and the fourth, originally scheduled for January 2025 but pushed to January 2027, is now also in jeopardy.
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News audience suppression under Myanmar’s digital coup
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Military shutdowns, blocks, surveillance, and rising costs have cut public access to independent media by 48%. Yet, 12 billion data points show most people distrust the military and actively avoid its propaganda, reflecting a resilient public sentiment.
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Regime’s proposed Anti-Online Fraud Law targets dissent, not scams
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The proposed Anti-Online Fraud Bill is not a genuine response to cybercrime, but a repressive tool of military control. Framed as an anti-scam law, it expands mass surveillance, censorship, arbitrary asset seizures, and disproportionate punishment, threatening digital dissent, alternative financial networks, humanitarian action, and fundamental human rights across Myanmar.
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The impact of digital platforms on Myanmar’s media during the 2025–6 elections
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The exile media has become increasingly reliant on digital platforms to inform the Myanmar public. Such reliance has exposed the media to regular attacks from the military, its allies, and the platforms themselves. This report surveys over 40 media outlets to uncover their experiences before, during, and after the 2026 elections. It was produced in…
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Myanmar Submission on the safety of journalists for UN Resolution 59/15
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The military has turned laws, courts, and digital infrastructure into tools to hunt journalists. This submission for UN Human Rights Council Resolution 59/15 documents mass detentions, lawfare, digital surveillance, gendered online violence and exile, and argues that protecting journalists now depends on independent civil-society frameworks rather than State mechanisms.
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Protecting women and children in Myanmar’s conflict
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Women and children have been subjected to severe human rights violations since the coup in Myanmar. This report provides a formal submission to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights regarding Resolution 60/19. It documents the targeting of women and children, advocating for comprehensive reparations, international accountability mechanisms, and the protection of fundamental human rights.
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Protecting Myanmar’s HRDs in the digital age
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Myanmar’s human rights defenders are facing significant digital attacks in response to their work. This report was submitted to the UN Office for the High Commissioner for Human Rights, which is doing a global review of digital attacks.
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How the military blocked independent media during the 2025-6 elections
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This groundbreaking report uses big data to reveal how the military intensified internet blocking of independent media, social media platforms, and VPNs during the sham elections, aiming to prevent the public from accessing any independent reporting or communicating with each other.
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11 recommendations for proposed national human rights law
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The proposed National Human Rights Law must prioritise international law and extend protection to all displaced and stateless persons. A conflict-sensitive mandate, judicial-grade independence for commissioners, and mandatory government responses to findings are essential. Without these structural reforms, the Commission risks failing Myanmar’s most marginalised populations in a contested environment.
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Military elections fail 5 key international standards
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This report evaluates the 2026 Myanmar elections against international human rights law. The systematic audit across five legal pillars reveals a total collapse of international standards, characterised by State-sponsored coercion and structural disenfranchisement. This exercise was not a genuine election and the international community should make a principled rejection.
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Impact of digital surveillance on civic space in Myanmar
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The military is weaponising surveillance to crush all civic space. AI-powered cameras and spyware are used to hunt journalists, human rights defenders, and political activists, while repressive new laws create a “rule by lawfare.” This digital dictatorship enables a high-tech war on women and criminalises the very act of seeking privacy.
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AI undermines cultural life in Myanmar
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The military is weaponising Artificial Intelligence to dismantle cultural rights and undermine the right to development. By automating censorship, enforcing digital exclusion, and erasing minority identities, the military has created a digital dictatorship. This submission details how AI-driven repression violates international law and demands urgent global accountability.
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The effect of digital repression on transitional justice in Myanmar
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Myanmar’s digital dictatorship creates significant barriers to transitional justice. While new technologies offer vital evidentiary tools, the military weaponises AI, biometric surveillance, and internet shutdowns to criminalise documentation and erase digital memory. This report to the UN calls for global evidence preservation protocols and digital restoration to protect the right to truth.
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Civil rights approach to accountability and transitional justice in Myanmar
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Accountability is not only about punishing physical atrocities. It requires dismantling the structural machinery of oppression. This submission to the UN’s review explains that true justice in Myanmar involves restoring the rule of law and ensuring the protection of fundamental freedoms.
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Myanmar’s human rights challenges for 2026
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International Human Rights Day offers an opportunity to examine fundamental rights in Myanmar and reflect on what may happen next year, in 2026. But before looking to 2026, Human Rights Myanmar’s previous predictions for 2025 are reviewed against reality.
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UN review of “terrorism” should recognise Myanmar’s experience of State terror
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As the UN discusses the global definition of terrorism, Myanmar offers a crucial warning. Here, the State itself is the primary perpetrator of terror, yet it weaponises the law to label pro-democracy dissenters as “terrorists”. Our submission urges the UN to recognise this reality and prevent international laws from shielding State atrocities.
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NUG must ensure transparent, independent,and rights-respecting corruption inquiry
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The investigation into allegations of misconduct and corruption within the Prime Minister’s Office offers a defining opportunity for the National Unity Government (NUG) to distinguish itself from the military regime.
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Myanmar freedom on the net 2025
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This year’s Freedom on the Net report finds that internet freedom in Myanmar remained one of the worst in the world, alongside China, with a score of 9 points out of 100. The military’s installation of advanced deep packet inspection technology and the resulting VPN block significantly worsened the situation, shifting the country from basic…
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Gender equality, the digital space and AI in Myanmar
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The military is waging a high-tech war on women. Pro-military online groups dox women, publishing their private data and calling for their arrest. This “dox-to-arrest” pipeline is backed by an expanding network of AI-powered facial recognition cameras, which enables the military to track women. This systematic campaign violates women’s fundamental human rights to privacy, freedom…
