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Save Rohingya Muslims from COVID-19
Apr 20, 2020 15:48For almost three years, Rohingya refugees who have been sheltering in camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, have tried to go home and resume normal life. They want their children to go to school and for families separated by the conflict to be reunited. So far, international attempts to hold Myanmar accountable for crimes against the Rohingya Muslims and improve conditions in Rakhine State have failed.
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Fighting between Myanmar military, ethnic rebels kills 32: OHCHR
Apr 17, 2020 15:48The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) says at least 32 people, mostly women and children, have been killed in the restive Rakhine and Chin states in western Myanmar amid an escalation in fighting between the country’s military and ethnic rebels.
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Save Rohingya Muslims from COVID-19
Apr 09, 2020 09:50For almost three years, Rohingya refugees who have been sheltering in camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, have tried to go home and resume normal life. They want their children to go to school and for families separated by the conflict to be reunited. So far, international attempts to hold Myanmar accountable for crimes against the Rohingya Muslims and improve conditions in Rakhine State have failed.
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Internet curbs on Rohingya risk wider virus outbreak
Mar 31, 2020 16:12Bangladeshi authorities through their official block on Internet access in the Cox’s Bazar camps have obstructed those Rohingya refugees’ right to information on how to protect themselves from contracting the coronavirus. Those restrictions also hobble the efforts of aid groups and government agencies effectively to communicate urgent health messaging to a Rohingya refugee community spread across 34 separate camps.
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New lockdowns, emergency states & deaths: Coronavirus keeps impacting lives
Mar 25, 2020 12:14Around the globe, the outbreak of the new coronavirus continues to impact the lives of people, forcing governments to take measures unprecedented in peacetime.
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Myanmar pays rising price for Rohingya crisis
Mar 04, 2020 14:24Recently, the government of Myanmar started paying a real price for its failure to provide meaningful accountability for its security forces’ widespread and systematic violence against the country’s Muslim Rohingya minority in Northern Rakhine State in late 2017.
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About 14 Rohingya die, dozens unaccounted for as boat sinks off Bangladesh
Feb 11, 2020 13:17At least 14 people drowned and dozens more were unaccounted for after a boat carrying Rohingya refugees sank off southern Bangladesh early Tuesday, officials say.
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Myanmar cuts off internet in violence-hit states, intercom firm says
Feb 04, 2020 14:10A leading global telecoms operator says Myanmar has imposed an internet shutdown in the country’s western states of Rakhine and Chin, amid renewed violence and a few months after it partially lifted that same restriction.
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Indignation in Africa as Trump expands US travel ban
Feb 02, 2020 12:17There is growing indignation in several African countries that have been the target of Washington's latest travel ban, with activists and rights groups complaining that the administration of President Donald Trump is pursuing a xenophobic and racist political agenda.
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Top UN court orders Myanmar to protect Rohingya from acts of genocide
Jan 24, 2020 09:06The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ordered Myanmar to do everything in its power to prevent the genocide of Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine, where state-sponsored violence has prevailed in recent years.