Myanmar/Burma: Human rights situation
At a Glance
22-10-2015
Since the handover to a nominally civilian government in 2011, the human rights situation in Myanmar/Burma, formerly one of the worst in the world, has improved – most political prisoners have been released and direct media censorship ended. However, numerous abuses continue, and the Muslim minority in particular has seen its situation deteriorate.
At a Glance
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- Asia and Oceania
- child protection
- civil law
- communications
- control of communications
- criminal law
- economic geography
- EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATIONS
- ethnic conflict
- EU relations
- European construction
- EUROPEAN UNION
- expropriation
- freedom of expression
- GEOGRAPHY
- human rights
- LAW
- Muslim
- Myanmar/Burma
- political prisoner
- POLITICS
- politics and public safety
- religious discrimination
- rights and freedoms
- rights of minorities
- sexual violence
- slavery
- social affairs
- social framework
- SOCIAL QUESTIONS