Myanmar Civil War and Rohingya Crisis
Recent Developments
01May 2026: UNHCR reported around 299,000 people had fled Myanmar to neighboring countries, including Bangladesh, India, and Thailand.
02January 2025: Amnesty International said Myanmar’s junta had killed more than 6,000 people and arbitrarily detained more than 20,000 since the 2021 coup.
032026: Human Rights Watch estimated at least 3.6 million people were internally displaced and more than 15 million faced acute food insecurity.
042024-2025: Reports continued to document junta airstrikes and bombardments on civilian areas, including schools, hospitals, and religious buildings.
Interventions
- UNHCR assistance for refugees and displaced people in Myanmar and neighboring countries, including Bangladesh, India, and Thailand.
- Humanitarian response efforts by UN agencies and NGOs focused on food aid, displacement support, and emergency protection for civilians.
- Documentation and accountability efforts by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch concerning atrocities, detentions, and attacks on civilians.
What Works
- Humanitarian access for food, shelter, and medical support is critical because acute food insecurity and displacement are widespread.
- Cross-border refugee protection and support in host countries helps reduce immediate harm while safe repatriation remains unavailable.
- Documentation of violations and international accountability pressure are supported by Amnesty and Human Rights Watch as necessary responses to ongoing atrocity risks.
How to Help
- Donate to reputable humanitarian organizations supporting displaced people and refugees from Myanmar.
- Support organizations providing aid to Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh and civilians inside Myanmar.
- Advocate for diplomatic pressure, humanitarian access, and civilian protection through elected representatives.
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Organizations Helping(24)
UNHCR is mitigating flood risks in Rohingya refugee camps by pre-positioning humanitarian supplies such as tarpaulins, rope to secure shelters, sleeping mats, water purification tablets, and jerrycans ahead of the monsoon season to protect displaced populations from floods and landslides.
AYPN tackles the crisis through youth-led peacebuilding, human rights advocacy, and coalition work. Its public statements highlight concerns about the plight of Rohingya confined to camps, renewed displacement, and junta abuses, while calling for urgent humanitarian access, gender-sensitive coordination, and recognition of women’s role in peacebuilding. It also collaborates with other Myanmar-focused civil society groups to amplify local voices and push for democratic transition and accountability.
UNICEF’s strategy is to combine direct service delivery with system strengthening, using child-focused interventions that can work at scale and in crises. Its public materials emphasize low-cost, high-impact, and sustainable solutions across health, nutrition, education, WASH, and protection, rather than isolated one-off projects.[6][2] A distinctive part of UNICEF’s approach is that it works through governments and local, national, and global partners to build or improve public systems while also reaching children immediately in emergencies. In education, for example, UNICEF both creates temporary learning centers for displaced children and helps strengthen formal education systems; in health, it pairs vaccine procurement and immunization support with disease prevention and primary care.[8][2] UNICEF also uses an equity-centered model, prioritizing children who are out of school, living in conflict zones, affected by poverty, or excluded because of gender or disability. Its programs are designed to protect children’s rights while delivering measurable outcomes such as improved survival, learning, sanitation, and protection in both stable and emergency settings.[8][6]
Mercy Corps says it works alongside communities to provide rapid relief in disasters, manage the effects of conflict and climate change, and create lasting solutions so people can thrive. Its strategy is not limited to direct aid: it combines humanitarian response with longer-term development, governance, market, and resilience programming across more than 30 countries.[6] A distinctive feature of its model is that programming is organized around interconnected drivers of vulnerability, such as food insecurity, weak governance, social exclusion, and climate stress. In its peace and governance work, Mercy Corps explicitly uses a multi-level approach that addresses societal, community, and individual dynamics through social cohesion, behavior change, civil society strengthening, mediation, and evidence learning.[2] Mercy Corps also emphasizes flexible tools such as cash and voucher assistance, market development, and technology, which are intended to help local systems function rather than replace them. This suggests a theory of change focused on restoring agency and strengthening the systems people rely on, rather than only delivering one-time services.[6]
