Myanmar returns to the IRC’s crisis Watchlist after the military seized power in February 2021, leading to unrest and conflict throughout the country.

The sudden return to military rule in Myanmar has raised alarms about the future of the southeast Asian nation. Learn more about the Myanmar crisis.

Since June 2012, widespread violence between Buddhists and Muslims in Myanmar’s Rakhine State has uprooted hundreds of thousands of people. The majority are Muslims who call themselves Rohingya—the world’s largest stateless group and one of the most persecuted.

Powerful earthquake worsens humanitarian crisis in the country

 Since 2012, clashes between Buddhists and minority Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar’s Rakhine state have forced hundreds of thousands of people from their homes. Three Rohingya health workers, who work with the IRC and continue to live in desperate conditions in Rakhine’s camps, tell their stories.

International Rescue Committee aid workers are scaling up our response to the world's fastest-growing humanitarian crisis as hundreds of thousands of people are uprooted by violence in Myanmar. Here's a look at the Rohingya refugee crisis by the numbers.

The world is celebrating the extraordinary rescue of the Wild Boars soccer team from a flooded cave network in the Mai Sai district of Thailand, but the incident has also shined a spotlight on a humanitarian crisis on the Thailand-Myanmar border that has been overlooked since the start of military rule in Myanmar in the 1960s.