How Myanmar´s junta is suppressing information about a hunger crisis

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : The junta has passed a law requiring all non-governmental organizations to register with authorities or risk jail.
53% : In one Rakhine township it was more than 10 times more expensive in July than at the start of 2021, according to the United Nations Development Program.
50% : Reuters spoke to more than 30 aid workers, researchers, diplomatic sources and United Nations officials about hunger in Myanmar.
49% : "The situation in Myanmar highlights how the global system for tackling hunger and preventing famine - comprising U.N. agencies, non-governmental humanitarian groups and donor countries - is under enormous strain.
42% : In November, the United Nations Development Program warned that Rakhine is on the brink of an "acute famine," putting more than two million people at risk of starvation.

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