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Myanmar should comply with a United Nations committee’s request for information on the military’s responsibility for widespread rape of Rohingya women and girls in northern Rakhine State, Human Rights Watch and Fortify Rights said today.
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Unicef Goodwill Ambassador and Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra says the world should learn from Bangladesh how to stand beside the distressed humanity.
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Canada has adopted a fresh set of strategies to respond to Rohingya crisis, focusing on the needs of women and girls in the aspects of human rights and gender equality.
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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says one lakh of the displaced Rohingya people, now living in Bangladesh, will be shifted to Bhasanchar Island in Noakhali soon for giving them shelter there until their repatriation.
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The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes a newly announced US $30 million contribution from the United States that will be used to provide food assistance for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, according to a press release.
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A parliamentary body of the United Kingdom has called upon its government to strengthen its efforts to persuade the international community to share the responsibilities of the Rohingya refugees now being sheltered in Bangladesh.
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Campaign group Amnesty International says it has gathered evidence that insurgents from a Rohingya Muslim armed group killed scores of Hindu civilians in August last year, amid a surge in violence in western Myanmar.
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Famous Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra, also the Unicef goodwill ambassador for child rights, visits three Rohingya refugee camps in Teknaf upazila of Cox's Bazar.
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Newly appointed United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) for Myanmar Christine Schraner might visit the country in June.
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Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra, the Unicef goodwill ambassador for child rights, says the Rohingyas staying in the refugee camps in Bangladesh are still highly vulnerable.
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The US government's aid chief urges Myanmar to take "concrete steps" to guarantee the rights of Rohingya Muslims and to show sincerity in that endeavour in order to encourage hundreds of thousands who have fled the country to return.
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Health Minister Mohammad Nasim calls upon the commonwealth countries to mount pressure on Myanmar in a bid to put an end to the much-talked-about Rohingya repatriation crisis.
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Border Guard Police (BGP) of Myanmar is asking Rohingya people who are staying on the no-man's land along the Tombru border point in Banbarban district since the refugee influx, to leave the area.
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One lakh Rohingyas, who have taken shelter in Bangladesh amid persecution in Myanmar, will be relocated to Bhasanchar of Hatiya upazila in Noakhali within two months.
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Myanmar urges Bangladesh to start the repatriation of 1,101 verified Rohingyas out of 8,032 persons received from Bangladesh amid a very slow verification process of Rohingyas.
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Around 60 babies a day are being born in vast refugee camps in Bangladesh, sheltering hundreds of thousands of mainly Rohingya Muslims who have fled Myanmar, the United Nations children's agency UNICEF says.
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The 12-year-old Rohingya refugee dream of Ramadan back in his own village -- fish to break the day's fast, gifts from his family and relaxing beneath the trees before evening prayers at the mosque.
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Asian Development Bank (ADB) is considering grant support to Bangladesh to help tackle Rohingya crisis.
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The United States indirectly criticises China for shielding Myanmar from strong UN Security Council action over a military crackdown against mainly Rohingya Muslims that the US and other countries have denounced as ethnic cleansing.
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Dr Debapriya Bhattacharya, distinguished Fellow of Center for Policy Dialogue (CPD), says that Bangladesh plunged into multidimensional problems for Rohingya crisis affecting its economy and employment.
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India conveys to Myanmar the need for speed, safe, and sustainable repatriation of Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh as Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj wraps up a two-day visit to that country.
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The United Nations Security Council urges Myanmar’s government on Wednesday to carry out transparent investigations into accusations of violence against mainly Rohingya Muslims in the country’s Rakhine state and to allow immediate aid access to the region.
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India has handed over a fresh consignment of aid of mostly emergency food items and monsoon protection for the Rohingya refugees sheltered in Cox’s Bazar.
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Human Rights Watch says the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) should immediately refer the situation in Myanmar, including the widespread and systematic abuses against ethnic Rohingya, to the International Criminal Court (ICC).
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Bangladesh government should encourage the International Criminal Court (ICC) to exercise jurisdiction to investigate and prosecute the crime of deporting Rohingyas, says a Southeast Asia-based rights organisation, Fortify Rights.
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The United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) has scaled up humanitarian assistance and life-saving interventions for the Rohingya children and women along with the vulnerable host population in Cox's Bazar with US$15.7 million funding received from the government of Japan.
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The United Kingdom has pledged fresh support for the Rohingya refugees sheltered in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, ahead of the monsoon season alongside its aid to cholera vaccination.
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The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) condemns the recent atrocities against Rohingyas in Myanmar, terming that actions against them have reached the level of “ethnic cleansing”.
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The Organisation for Islamic Cooperation decides to establish an OIC ministerial committee on accountability for crimes against the Rohingya.
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Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Secretary General Yousef bin Ahmad Al-Othaimeen vows to continue support for Rohingya people, who fled Rakhine state following persecution in Myanmar.
