YANGON - Four members of Myanmar's human rights commission resigned on Thursday, after the agency was pilloried for failing to help two girls allegedly tortured for years at a tailor's shop. Four members of the country's top human rights body have been "allowed to leave... according to their wishes," the president's office said in a statement. Some 1.7 million children are thought to be in work, according to analysis of 2014 census data. Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, whose party took power in March, pledged to reaffirm "faith in fundamental human rights" in a speech to the United Nations last month. The 11-member human rights commission includes members who served under the former junta government.

Source: Bangkok Post October 06, 2016 07:41 UTC