Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi, former darling of the human rights community for her years under house arrest while opposing military rule, has recently been under international pressure over her ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — The Dalai Lama has urged Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s pro-democracy icon and a fellow Nobel Peace Prize laureate, to speak out to protect her country’s persecuted Rohingya Muslims amid ...

HANOI, Vietnam — Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s civilian leader, on Thursday sidestepped widespread accusations that her country’s military had unleashed ethnic cleansing on Rohingya Muslims, a campaign ...

Two years ago, Myanmar celebrated a moment many thought would never come as democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi took her seat at the head of the country's new government. Two years ago, Myanmar celebrated ...

It is rare for an international arrest warrant to be issued against a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and political prisoner whose release is demanded by both the UN General Assembly and the UN Security ...

The crisis in Myanmar is getting attention at the U.N. this week. Hundreds of thousands of Muslim Rohingyas have been forced to flee into neighboring Bangladesh. The country’s de-facto political ...

Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi faces her date with destiny today when she appears at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Netherlands to defend her country in a genocide case. A ...

COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh -- With Myanmar drawing condemnation for violence that has driven at least 370,000 Rohingya to flee the country, the government said Wednesday its leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, ...

Emmanuel Macron makes impassioned plea for release of Aung San Suu Kyi amid health concerns - The former Burmese leader has ...

It said she had failed to act against her country's persecution of the Rohingya. The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum said Wednesday it was rescinding a major human rights award it gave Nobel laureate ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi should personally meet members of the Muslim Rohingya minority which is being subjected to ongoing persecution by the military, a group of U.N.

Since August of last year, more than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to neighboring Bangladesh amid a frenzy of executions, rapes and village burnings in the north of Rakhine state in Myanmar. p ...