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Journalists covering crimes against Rohingya charged in Myanmar
Jan 10, 2018 09:23Two Reuters journalists, who covered the ongoing state-sponsored crackdown against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, have been officially charged for breaching a colonial-era law.
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Bangladesh court upholds govt. ban on Rohingya Muslim refugees marrying citizens
Jan 08, 2018 16:42A Bangladesh court has upheld a government ruling banning marriage between its citizens and refugees from Myanmar's persecuted Rohingya Muslims.
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About 48,000 expected births to complicate situation in Rohingya camps in Bangladesh: Aid group
Jan 05, 2018 12:24An aid agency has warned that thousands of expected new childbirths at refugee camps set up for Rohingya Muslims in Bangladesh could seriously complicate the situation at the already-resource-strapped sites.
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Rohingya at risk of deadly diphtheria face shortage of medics: MSF
Dec 28, 2017 16:15An international medical charity says health workers in Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh are struggling with a shortage of medics to administer antitoxins to patients infected with diphtheria.
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Children in war-hit regions come under attack at ‘shocking’ scale in 2017: UNICEF
Dec 28, 2017 10:19The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has described 2017 as a devastating year for children trapped in conflict zones across the globe, saying the scale of attacks on children in war-ravaged regions reached “shocking” levels in the year.
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Iran 'Yes' vote to Myanmar resolution registered at UN: Qassemi
Dec 26, 2017 16:34Iran says the country’s positive vote to a resolution on the violation of human rights of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar has been registered at the United Nations.
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Pentagon says Myanmar invited to join US-Thai war games
Dec 24, 2017 10:03A US Defense Department spokesman says that Myanmar, which is widely censured for conducting ethnic cleansing against its Rohingya Muslim minority, has been invited to observe major US-Thai war games, dubbed Cobra Gold, along with other Asian militaries.
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UNICEF says 25% of Rohingya refugee kids acutely malnourished
Dec 23, 2017 05:22UNICEF says a quarter of the Rohingya Muslim children under the age of five who crossed into Bangladesh fleeing violence in Myanmar suffer from potentially life-threatening acute malnutrition.
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Myanmar blocks UN investigator amid Rohingya crackdown
Dec 20, 2017 10:53The United Nations (UN)’s independent investigator on the situation of human rights in Myanmar has been denied access to the country, amid a deadly crackdown on minority Rohingya Muslims there.
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Myanmar: Mass grave found in Rakhine
Dec 19, 2017 06:58A mass grave has been found in Myanmar, at a location where minority Rohingya Muslims have been the target of state-sponsored violence for over a year.