July 25, 2022
Other Event
in Singapore
The Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) Yusof Ishak Institute will organize a webinar titled Human Rights in Myanmar Before and After the 2021 Coup on 25 July 2022 from 10:00 am (Singapore/GMT+8) onwards.
Even before Myanmar’s February 2021 coup, decades of authoritarian rule had not given Myanmar a stellar human rights record. Issues related to forced labour, child labour, human trafficking, minority rights, freedom of expression, and the decades-long armed conflict between the Myanmar military and various ethnic armed organisations dogged successive administrations, including during the brief decade of democratisation between 2012 and 2021. Since February 2021, the human rights situation in Myanmar has drastically worsened. The number of people that security forces have killed, detained, put on trial, tortured and abused, or forcibly displaced has increased dramatically. The post-coup context has left many communities in Myanmar in dire need of basic social services – especially healthcare and education – and humanitarian assistance. Children in Myanmar have been disproportionately affected by the military regime’s actions, as both victims and targets of violence. A recent report of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar has warned of an “escalating political, economic and humanitarian crisis that is putting Myanmar’s children at risk of becoming a lost generation” and offered recommendations for coordinated international action.
About the Speaker
Matthew Bugher is Research Director for the Myanmar Human Rights Project at the Schell Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School. With a long-term focus on Thailand and Myanmar, he has researched abuses by state security forces, violations of fair trial standards, refugee policies, threats to human rights defenders and restrictions on freedom of expression, assembly and movement.
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