ICC asks Bangladesh for input on Rohingya jurisdiction
Arakan News Agency The International Criminal Court has asked Bangladesh to weigh in as the court considers a request by the ICC prosecutor for jurisdiction over alleged deportations of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar to Bangladesh. ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda asked the court last month to rule on whether it had jurisdiction over alleged deportations of […]
Pregnant Rohingya Refugees Are in Desperate Need
Arakan News Agency Thousands of women who were raped by the Burmese military live in refugee camps that are at risk from monsoon flooding. In a few weeks, annual monsoon rains will drench Bangladesh. At the same time, along the country’s border with Myanmar, thousands of girls and women living in flimsy bamboo huts will […]
“A Soldier Cut Off Her Breast”: Rohingya Survivors Recount Atrocities
Arakan News Agency The mass exodus of the Rohingyas from Myanmar became international news in August of 2017. But the military’s campaign against the Rohingyas, a Muslim minority in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, actually began years earlier — and since 2012, a small network of citizen activists have been risking their lives to secretly film its impact. Their harrowing […]
OIC forms committee to handle Rohingya issue
Arakan News Agency The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Sunday decided to form a ministerial committee to handle and monitor the Rohingya issue internationally. The decision came on the last day of its Council of Foreign Ministers’ meeting. Abubacarr Tambadou, Gambia’s attorney general and justice minister, tabled the proposal. The committee will collect information […]
Footballer Emeka continues run for Rohingyas
Arakan News Agency Nigerian football team former defender, midfielder and current coach Emeka Ezeugo is continuing his run on humanitarian ground, taking steps to reduce the sufferings of stateless Rohingya people who escaped death fleeing from Myanmar to Bangladesh. The 50-year-old footballer, who played for his national side in the FIFA World Cup 1994, ran […]
UN Council chief calls for action on Rohingya refugees
Arakan News Agency Ambassador Joanna Wronecka of Poland, this month’s UN Security Council president, has said that the United Nations has to act when Rohingya refugees are suffering. She made the remarks UN headquarters on Thursday after visiting Myanmar Rohingya in Bangladesh refugee camps earlier this week, reports Xinhua News Agency. “So, when you see […]
Analysts sceptical of Security Council visit to Myanmar
Arakan News Agency The visit of UN Security Council envoys to Myanmar has been cautiously welcomed by Rohingya advocates who called for stronger pressure on Myanmar authorities to put an end to genocidal policies against the Muslim minority. Abdul Malik Mujahid, chairman of Burma Task Force USA, said the visit by the Security Council delegation […]
UAE asst minister visits Rohingya camp
Arakan News Agency UAE Assistant Foreign Minister for International Organizations’ Affairs Yacoub Al Hosani on Friday visited Kutupalong refugee camp and launched cooperation with UNHCR in nutrition programme supported by the UAE contribution. He was received by Kevin Allen, head of UNHCR’s Emergency Operations for the Rohingya refugee response in Bangladesh. Al Hosani and Allen […]
Activists denounce sexual violence against Rohingya
Arakan News Agency International experts and activists have called for more solidarity with Rohingya women and girls who have been victims of sexual violence by Myanmar security forces. Speaking at “Rohingya Crisis and Solutions”, an international conference in Cologne, Germany, Dr. Graham Thom, Amnesty International Australia’s Refugee Coordinator, said thousands of women and girls are […]
Journalists face obstacles in reporting Rohingya crisis
Arakan News Agency Journalists in Myanmar work under immense pressure by the government which restricts fair reportage of the Rohingya crisis, Anadolu Agency’s editor-in-chief of foreign language services said on Wednesday. Speaking at “Rohingya Crisis and Solutions”, an international conference in Cologne, Germany, Mehmet Ozturk said: “It is necessary to get permission for journalists to […]
Rohingya Muslims face death as cyclone season approaches
Arakan News Agency Thousands of Rohingya Muslims risk death and disease as the monsoon season approaches in Bangladesh, campaigners warned in a report released on Thursday. Flooding, landslides and cyclones are expected to destroy many of the temporary shelters in the country’s coastal town of Cox’s Bazar, home to the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya […]
Bangladesh Government to shift 25,000 more Rohingya families from hill slopes
Arakan News Agency The Bangladesh government has taken a plan to shift 25,000 more Rohingya families from the slopes of hills by May 15 to save them from mudslides, said disaster management and relief affairs secretary Md Shah Kamal. He said this replying to reporters at a news briefing called by the DMRA Minister Mofazzal […]
OIC on Rohingya Crisis: A unifying cause despite many rifts
Arakan News Agency The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), although facing a wide rift within, may find in the Dhaka foreign ministers conference a unifying cause to act on the Rohingya issue. The plight of the Rohingyas had caught the attention of the OIC but not as a big challenge as much as the Saudi-Iran […]