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Forestry in Myanmar 2020
The Forest Department released 2020 report, consists various contents with up-to-date information about institutional structure, forest resources base, rules and law and etc.
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Thailand Refugees Camp Population: 2024
The 2024 datasets are available monthly. These datasets show the 9 camps of total population by ethnicity and gender.
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Freedom in the World: Myanmar country report
Freedom House rates people’s access to political rights and civil liberties in 210 countries and territories through its annual Freedom in the World report. This is Myanmar coun...
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Acts of Defiance: How US traders are ignoring sanctions to import conflict teak from Myanmar
Following the coup, natural resources provide a source of profit for the military, whereby the forests of Myanmar are defined by their monetary value and have been part of the m...
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Country overview: Myanmar
Dramatic changes took place in Myanmar beginning in 2011 that began a transition in this country from half a century of military rule to a hybrid system of government with compe...
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A Silent Sangha? Buddhist Monks in Post-coup Myanmar
The Myanmar Sangha – the country’s community of Buddhist monks and nuns – has played a mostly marginal role in the anti-regime resistance following the military’s February 2021 ...
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UNICEF Myanmar 2023 situation reports: Humanitarian Action for Children
The UNICEF situation report presents the main reporting tool to monitor UNICEF’s humanitarian response. They provide an update on the situation and needs of children in a countr...
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UNICEF Humanitarian Action for Children: Myanmar Appeal_2023
UNICEF’s Humanitarian Action for Children appeal helps support the agency’s work as it provides conflict- and disaster-affected children with access to water, sanitation, nutrit...
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LIFT’s Annual Report 2020
LIFT continued to focus on building resilience through improved nutrition, access to finance, income diversification and skills development while pivoting resources to respond t...
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Insights on lending opportunities to women-led businesses: Myanmar
Yet women entrepreneurs face gender-based constraints in building their businesses, including demand, supply and regulatory barriers, and cultural and social norms that are both...
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Myanmar's Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) 2020 for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation (12 July 2021)
Myanmar has developed its NDC 2020 with more determined and detailed climate actions in both areas of mitigation and adaptation compared to the initial report, Intended National...
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Rooting out inequalities: Women’s participation in forest management in conflict-affected areas of Karen state in Myanmar
Forests are a critical resource for people in Myanmar, in particular for ethnic minorities such as the Karen people. Neglecting forest management in conflict-affected areas can ...
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Peace on the Salween
Karen indigenous people have turned a war zone into a peace park, drawing on their culture and traditional knowledge to protect their ancestral lands in Karen State, Myanmar.
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Myanmar must improve community forestry plan to fight climate change
Community forestry, in which local people play a fundamental role in forest, and resources management through strengthening community land rights, developing local livelihood an...
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Drivers of deforestation and forest degradation in Myanmar
This report provides a review of the knowledge of key direct and indirect drivers of deforestation and forest degradation in Myanmar.
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Issuing a statement for legal and official export of teak from Myanmar to EU countries
Right after military has took over the country, Myanmar Forest Products and Timber Merchants Association released a statement for legal and official export of teak from Myanmar ...
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Myanmar's Forests Are at Risk After Military Coup and Economic Sanctions
Myanmar's military regime and a potential ramp up in trade boycotts by foreign governments and business could fuel the risk of deforestation in the Asian nation, which is likely...
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Myanmar’s troubled forestry sector seeks global endorsement after coup
The nationally privatized Myanmar Forest Products and Timber Merchants Association (MFPTMA) released a statement claiming its timber trade is fully in compliance with legal and ...
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Myanmar industry profile
The annual rate of deforestation in Myanmar was 1.2% for the period 1990-2015 (FAO, 2015) with rapid expansion of commercial agriculture, alongside legal and illegal logging, an...
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Nam Jim Economic Zone to Be Suspended, CSO Says
News article stating: Plans for a controversial economic zone planned on the outskirts of Myitkyina has been suspended, civil society attendees told KNG after a meeting with sta...