Rohingya

Child exploitation rife in Rohingya refugee camps: IOM

Nov 13, 2017 12:28

A probe by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) reveals numerous cases of exploitation and trafficking in Bangladesh’s refugee camps, where Rohingya children have been subjected to forced labor, beatings and sexual assaults.
Myanmar sentences drone-flying journalists to prison

Nov 10, 2017 13:52

A court in Myanmar has sentenced two journalists hired by Turkey’s state broadcaster to two months in prison over flying a drone near the country’s parliament without a license.
UNSC strongly condemns violence against Muslims in Myanmar

Nov 07, 2017 14:46

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has strongly condemned government-sanctioned violence against Myanmar’s Muslim Rohingya minority.
Rohingya children in Bangladesh face worsening malnutrition crisis: UNICEF

Nov 03, 2017 18:42

The United Nations children's agency, UNICEF, says life-threatening malnutrition has spread perilously among Rohingya child refugees who have fled Myanmar and entered Bangladesh.
Cholera risk 'ticking bomb' for Rohingya refugees

Nov 03, 2017 06:55

The threat of cholera is like a "ticking bomb" for Myanmar's persecuted Rohingya refugees who have flooded into Bangladesh, the head of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) says.
Myanmar leader visits Rakhine long after crisis began

Nov 02, 2017 14:05

Myanmar’s de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has visited the country’s Rakhine State, long after government-sanctioned violence against minority Muslims in the area drove out almost half of the Muslim population living there.
Tragedy strikes Rohingya Muslims again

Oct 31, 2017 12:41

At least seven Rohingya Muslims, including three babies, have drowned in two separate incidents near the Bangladeshi coastline while fleeing violence in Myanmar.
Rabbis in US file petition against Israel’s arming of Myanmar

Oct 29, 2017 06:23

Jewish rabbis and cantors in the United States have filed a petition demanding that the Israeli regime stops selling arms to Myanmar amid the government-backed violence against the Rohingya Muslims.
Myanmar starts harvesting farmland abandoned by Rohingya Muslims

Oct 28, 2017 17:24

The government in Myanmar has embarked on harvesting rice from farmland abandoned by the Rohingya Muslim refugees, who have fled the military crackdown in the western state of Rakhine to neighboring Bangladesh.
Bangladesh mulls sterilization to curb Rohingya population

Oct 28, 2017 12:40

Bangladeshi health officials seek to launch sterilization programs to curb the number of Rohingya Muslim refugees, who have fled the military crackdown at home in Myanmar and taken refuge in overcrowded border camps in Bangladesh.