Myanmar’s humanitarian crisis is deepening as international assistance declines, five years into a conflict marked by serious human rights violations, the UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) said in a report published Monday.

The report found that reductions and suspensions in foreign funding are threatening the locally driven protection efforts that civil society organizations and local governance structures have built to shield civilians, even as the military continues to attack the civilian population. Such community-based mechanisms, OHCHR said, have in many areas been the only source of early warning, emergency healthcare, and humanitarian coordination.

OHCHR also reported that foreign actors continue to transfer arms, ammunition, jet fuel, and other dual-use items to the Myanmar military, conduct it warned risks facilitating violations of international human rights and humanitarian law.

Covering the period from August 2025 to the end of January 2026 — spanning the military’s announcement of elections through the close of voting — the report documented at least 702 verified civilian deaths, mostly in the central regions and Rakhine State. Of those, according to OHCHR, 476 were attributed to airstrikes, including 111 deaths—among them 43 women and 10 children—recorded before voting began in December.

The funding decline has forced program cuts, closures, and layoffs across civil society, hitting ethnic media and women’s organizations especially hard, the report said. Military blockades and reduced support have degraded emergency healthcare and forced safe houses for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence to close or scale back.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk urged stronger international action, saying the people of Myanmar appear to have “been forgotten by those outside the country.” He added:

The international community should hold up a mirror to themselves, and ask: after a decade of grievous suffering, are we going to fail the people of Myanmar yet again? The answer must be no.

Türk renewed his call for an immediate cessation of hostilities and for all parties to facilitate humanitarian access to civilians in urgent need of food, clean water, medicine, and basic services.