Online star Jerome Jarre’s Love Army raises $1m in one day to help the Rohingya
Arakan News Agency A YouTuber turned charity fundraiser has raised over $1m in a day to help the Rohingya people fleeing persecution in Burma. Jerome Jarre first found fame with six-second videos on Vine and Snapchat, on which he had over seven million followers. His upbeat, nothing-is-impossible attitude is a big draw to viewers who have […]
Vatican defends Pope’s silence on Myanmar’s Rohingya minority
Arakan News Agency The Vatican on Wednesday defended Pope Francis’ decision not to speak out for Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya Muslims by name on his first papal visit to the country. Leading human rights groups have criticized Francis’ failure to address alleged atrocities against the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar’s Arakan State where a violent crackdown […]
U.N. panel seeks rare report from Myanmar regime on rapes and slayings of Rohingya women
Arakan News Agency A United Nations women’s rights panel called on Myanmar on Tuesday to report within six months on rapes and sexual violence against Rohingya women and girls by its security forces in northern Arakan state and measures taken to punish soldiers. The U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) also […]
Violence drives more Rohingyas to Bangladesh; in Myanmar, Pope appeals for tolerance – UN
Arakan News Agency While their numbers have dropped in recent weeks, hundreds of Rohingya refugees are still crossing the border into Bangladesh from Myanmar every day, the United Nations migration agency said Tuesday. “People are still arriving in the settlements with horrifying accounts of physical and sexual abuse, harassment and murder. All of them fear […]
Bangladesh: Rohingya refugees must not be relocated to uninhabitable island
Arakan News Agency The Bangladesh government must abandon all plans to relocate more than 100,000 Rohingya refugees on to an uninhabitable island, Amnesty International said today. On Tuesday, the Bangladesh government approved a $280 million plan to develop the isolated, flood-prone and uninhabitable Thenger Char to temporarily house Rohingya refugees until they are repatriated to […]
WHO fears deadly diphtheria outbreak among Rohingya refugees
Arakan News Agency Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees who fled from Myanmar into Bangladesh are at risk from a possible outbreak of diphtheria, the World Health Organization said in a report published on Tuesday. More than 620,000 people from Myanmar’s Muslim Rohingya minority have fled to Bangladesh since the end of August and are […]
GRC participates in the Minorities Conference of the Human Rights Council in Geneva
Arakan News Agency The Global Rohingya Center (GRC) participated last Thursday in the Minorities Conference of the Human Rights Council in Geneva and reviewed the Rohingya issue, regarding their usurped rights by the Government of Myanmar. On the preparatory day, the delegation from the center which was headed by the president of the GRC Mr. […]
Bangladesh to Turn Island Into Temporary Home for 100,000 Rohingya Refugees
Arakan News Agency Bangladesh approved a $280 million project on Tuesday to develop an isolated and flood-prone island in the Bay of Bengal to temporarily house 100,000 Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in neighbouring Myanmar. The decision came just days after Bangladesh sealed a deal aiming to start returning Rohingya to Myanmar within two months to […]
Pope calls for unity in Myanmar without saying ‘Rohingya’
Arakan News Agency Pope Francis insisted Tuesday that Myanmar’s future depends on respecting the rights of each ethnic group, an indirect show of support for Rohingya Muslims who have been subject to decades of discrimination and a recent military crackdown described by the U.N. as a textbook campaign of “ethnic cleansing.” Francis didn’t cite the […]
Myanmar accused of wiping out secret network of Rohingya reporters
Arakan News Agency Human rights groups fear military has disappeared or killed undercover journalists to starve the world of news about persecution in Arakan state Reporters working inside Myanmar’s Arakan state to document atrocities against Rohingya have gone missing, raising fears that they have been deliberately targeted by the military. Young Rohingya volunteers had been […]
Rohingya crisis: ‘It’s not genocide,’ say Myanmar’s hardline monks
Arakan News Agency The monks, clad in vermillion robes and flip flops, line up from old to young to receive a meal in their alms bowls — rice, vegetables, cookies — all donated by local villagers. It’s a potent act of religious devotion that takes place every day across countless communities in Myanmar, an overwhelmingly […]
Myanmar not yet safe for Rohingya refugee return: UN
Arakan News Agency Conditions for Rohingya refugees to safely return to Myanmar from Bangladesh are not in place, the UN said Friday, a day after the two countries announced repatriation would begin in two months. “UNHCR has not yet seen the details of the agreement”, the UN refugee agency said in a statement, referring to […]
Rights groups say outside monitors needed for Rohingya return to Myanmar
Arakan News Agency Driven out of Myanmar predominantly by chaos, starvation and fear, hundreds continue to pour daily into Bangladesh Human rights groups called on Friday for international agencies to be allowed to monitor the planned repatriation of hundreds of thousands Rohingya Muslims from Bangladesh to the homes they have fled from in Myanmar over […]