Aung San Suu Kyi stripped of the Freedom of Dublin as Burma’s Rohingya crisis deepens
Arakan News Agency Aung San Suu Kyi has been stripped of the Freedom of Dublin over her perceived attitude to the plight of the Rohingya people in Burma. City councillors voted to strip the Nobel laureate of the award with immediate effect following months of international condemnation of the military’s crackdown on the Rohingya people […]
Opinion: Rohingya women have suffered enough. They don’t deserve discriminatory health care.
Arakan News Agency Rape has been used as a weapon of war in conflicts all over the world. And has been used against women and girls caught up in the massive humanitarian crisis involving Rohingya refugees. In the past few months, nearly 600,000 Rohingya have fled Myanmar for Bangladesh, and more continue to seek refuge […]
Angelina Jolie Focuses Attention On Rohingya Refugees
Arakan News Agency Angelina Jolie, the actress and special envoy for the UN’s refugee agency, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, is calling global attention to the plight of the Rohingya in a new video. Suffering ethnic cleansing at the hands of the Myanmar government, many in the Muslim sect have fled over the […]
Turkish PM to visit Bangladesh, Rohingya camps
Arakan News Agency Turkey’s prime minister will pay a two-day official visit to Dhaka next week at the invitation of his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina, the Prime Ministry Press Center said on Saturday. The center said in a statement that Binali Yildirim will hold a number of high-level meetings during his visit on Dec. 19-20. […]
U.S. says identified target for sanctions over Myanmar crackdown
Arakan News Agency The United States has identified one person it might impose sanctions on over the brutal crackdown in Myanmar against minority Rohingya Muslims and is examining others, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Friday. Tillerson, who last month declared the violence against the Rohingya to be “ethnic cleansing,” has said Washington […]
Reuters journalists working on Rohingya stories arrested in Myanmar
Arakan News Agency Two journalists working on stories about Rohingya in Myanmar for the news agency Reuters have been arrested and detained in the Southeast Asian country’s largest city, Yangon. The two reporters, named by the agency as Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, were arrested under the Official Secrets Act, a colonial-era law which […]
KSRelief, UN to report on Rohingyas after mission to Bangladesh
Arakan News Agency A high-level mission from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSRelief) concluded a two-day field visit to Cox Bazar in Bangladesh on Sunday, and will shortly submit a joint report on the Rohingya refugee camps. The UNHCR delegation was headed by UNHCR […]
Nearly 7,000 Rohingya killed in one month of violence: Doctors Without Borders
Arakan News Agency At least 6,700 Rohingya Muslims, including many children, were killed in the first month of violence that erupted in Myanmar‘s troubled Arakan state in August, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Thursday. The medical charity said the first major survey on the scale of mortality was the “clearest indication yet of the widespread violence” […]
France assures Bangladesh or solution to Rohingya crisis
Arakan News Agency On Thursday, the French President Emmanuel Macron Assured Bangladesh of his country’s humanitarian support and for having a permanent solution to the ongoing Rohingya crisis playing a due role in the UN and other international forums.While Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s bilateral meeting with the French President, Macron came up with the assurance. […]
Red Cross says life has stopped in Myanmar’s Arakan
Arakan News Agency Life has stopped in its tracks in Myanmar’s northern Arakan state where an estimated 180,000 Rohingya remain, fearful after violence drove 650,000 to flee to Bangladesh, the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Wednesday. Dominik Stillhart, ICRC director of operations, speaking after a three-day mission to the remote area, said […]
Joint Appeal to the UN Security Council to Act on Myanmar’s Rohingya Crisis
Arakan News Agency In advance of the United Nations Security Council’s December 12 meeting on the situation in Myanmar, we, a global coalition of 69 human rights, faith-based and humanitarian organizations, urgently call on the Council to take immediate action to address the campaign of ethnic cleansing and mass atrocity crimes, including crimes against humanity, committed against the ethnic Rohingya population by Myanmar’s security forces in northern Arakan State, as well as the […]
UN stepping up support to diphtheria vaccination campaign for Rohingya children in Bangladesh
Arakan News Agency A United Nations-backed campaign to immunize Rohingya children against diphtheria began on Tuesday in Bangladesh, following an outbreak that has resulted in nine deaths in the camps and makeshift settlements hosting these refugees from Myanmar. “The outbreak shows a steep rise in cases, an indicator of the extreme vulnerability of children […] […]
Myanmar Blasts UN On Rohingya Concern
Arakan News Agency Myanmar’s ambassador to the United Nations has denied there was “concrete evidence” to prove the abuse of the country’s Rohingya minority, criticising UN members for pressuring Myanmar to end the violence. “This pattern of exerting undue political pressure and coercive measures will not bring any positive result,” said Ambassador Hau Do Suan […]