Myanmar Rohingya refugee crisis

UN states call for end to Myanmar military operations

A United Nations General Assembly committee calls on Myanmar to end military operations that have "led to the systematic violation and abuse of human rights" of Rohingya Muslims in the country's Rakhine state.
16 November 2017, 06:59 AM

‘Myanmar military should be brought to justice’

Myanmar military officials responsible for the atrocities on Rohingyas should be brought to justice, National Human Rights Commission Chairman Kazi Rezaul Hoque has said.
16 November 2017, 05:39 AM

Rohingya woman in Bangladesh helps others flee Myanmar

Zahida Begum doesn't remember her home village, a tiny speck amid the mountains and forests of Myanmar. She was only 18 months old when her mother smuggled her across the Naf River on a fishing boat, carrying her into Bangladesh, among hundreds of thousands of Muslim Rohingya fleeing persecution in their home country.
16 November 2017, 04:56 AM

Myanmar should come forward recognising Rohingyas as its nationals

Speaker of Indian Lok Sabha Sumitra Mahajan says Myanmar should come forward for solving the ongoing Rohingya crisis recognising the people as its nationals.
7 November 2017, 14:32 PM

CPA calls for urgent action to resolve Rohingya crisis

Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) today called for urgent action from the international community to resolve the ongoing Rohingya crisis.
7 November 2017, 12:05 PM

US exploring scope for Myanmar sanctions

Urging Myanmar government to facilitate the safe and voluntary return of all Rohingyas from Bangladesh, the US has said that it is exploring scopes to impose sanctions against the country.
24 October 2017, 07:32 AM

Rohingya crisis: Next report will be more detailed, with importance, says UN envoy

United Nations Special Rapporteur Yanghee Lee has said she will convey the ongoing Rohingya crisis issue in her next report with more details and importance.
24 October 2017, 06:38 AM

Condition of Rohingya refugees grim: Malaysian team

Conditions at the Rohingya refugee camp at the Bangladesh-Myanmar border continue to be grim, says the Malaysian team helping out there.
23 October 2017, 05:22 AM

Rohingya crisis: EU co-hosts ‘pledging conference’ in Geneva tomorrow

The European Union will co-host a "Pledging Conference" on the Rohingya refugee crisis, with Kuwait, in Geneva.
22 October 2017, 08:45 AM

Aung San Suu Kyi should resign: Muhammad Yunus

If the Myanmar military is rendering the country’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi powerless, then she should step down, Nobel Peace laureate and economist Muhammad Yunus says in an interview with Aljazeera.
22 October 2017, 07:27 AM

Rohingya children at risk of trafficking, sexual abuse and child labour

International aid group Save the Children warns that Rohingya children are exposed to alarming risks of trafficking, sexual abuse and child labour due to overcrowding, lack of schooling and widespread desperation of people in the makeshift settlements in Cox's Bazar.
21 October 2017, 14:11 PM

Rohingya crisis: ‘Foreign interference doesn’t work’

Experience shows that foreign interference in crises does not work and China supports the Myanmar government's efforts to protect stability, a senior Chinese official says, amid ongoing violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state.
21 October 2017, 06:45 AM

Rohingya refugee children in Bangladesh in dire state: Unicef

Nearly 340,000 Rohingya children are living in squalid conditions in Bangladesh camps where they lack enough food, clean water and health care, the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) says.
20 October 2017, 04:28 AM

IPU calls upon UNSC, Human Rights Council for intervention on Rohingya crisis

Inter-Parliamentary Union in its 137th Assembly calls upon the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) and Human Rights Council to urgently intervene and halt the human tragedy affecting the Rohingya minority of Myanmar.
18 October 2017, 07:29 AM

World now much closer to Bangladesh over Rohingya issue: FM

Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali today said the international community is much closer to Bangladesh than ever before over the Rohingya issue which, he thinks, is an outcome of its diplomacy.
18 October 2017, 06:12 AM

Myanmar army killed hundreds of Rohingyas: Amnesty

Myanmar security forces killed hundreds of men, women and children during a systematic campaign to expel Rohingya Muslims, Amnesty International says in a new report that calls for an arms embargo on the country and criminal prosecution of the perpetrators.
18 October 2017, 04:24 AM

UN report on Rohingya hunger withdrawn over Myanmar govt request, The Guardian says

World Food Programme (WFP) of the United Nations has withdrawn its critical report revealing recently desperate hunger among the persecuted Rohingya people after the Myanmar government demanded it be taken down, reports The Guardian.
17 October 2017, 06:07 AM

Bangladesh foreign minister to visit Myanmar Nov 19

Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali will visit Myanmar next month to attend the 13th ASEM Summit to be held in Myanmar's capital.
17 October 2017, 05:06 AM

IOM DG due Sunday; he'll visit Rohingya camps

International Organization for Migration (IOM) Director General William Lacy Swing arrives in Dhaka on Sunday on a four-day visit to see current Rohingya situation on the ground.
14 October 2017, 05:50 AM

3 Rohingyas detained from Bogra passport office

Police detain three Rohingya people from Bogra passport office as they attempted to collect Bangladeshi passports, providing fake birth certificates.
12 October 2017, 15:07 PM