... Court said in a  press statement , in addition to “persecution on grounds of ethnicity and/or religion against the Rohingya population.”  After a reported military-led crackdown, widespread killings, rape and village burnings, nearly three-quarters of a million Rohingya fled Myanmar's Rakhine state in August 2017 to settle in crowded refugee camps in neighboring Bangladesh.  This ... Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the small African nation has taken legal action to assist the persecuted majority-Muslim Rohingya, with support by other Muslim countries.   While the UN’s ICJ , known as the ‘World ...

... roadblocks” for stateless people. Turning to the refugee crisis in southern Bangladesh, where around a million mainly Rohingya refugees are sheltering, most after fleeing Myanmar amid a military crackdown and grave rights abuses, the UNHCR ... [scald=604182:un_news_medium {"additionalClasses":""}] “The scale of the problem caused by the stateless of the Rohingya people is overwhelming,” she said. “I think we should learn as a species from the enormity of this ... and it becomes an international crisis. So let’s not let other issues of statelessness rise to the level of the Rohingya.” Denied 'a sense of self', families break down: UN deputy chief Earlier, UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina ...

... for Peacekeeping Agenda, Ms. Hasina said, “we have joined as one of the ‘champion’ countries”. Turning to the Rohingya crisis, the Prime Minister stated that it has been “lingering into the third year”, saying that “not a single Rohingya could return to Myanmar due to absence of safety and security, freedom of movement and overall conducive ... a proposal to resolve the crisis, which included for the international community to ensure that the root causes of Rohingya problems are addressed and the violation of their human rights accounted for. “For us multilateralism remains ...

... on human rights in Myanmar, Yanghee Lee, cited the involvement of the Myanmar military in operations against Rohingya communities in Rakhine state.  The violence in Rakhine is “escalating” and there are credible reports of ...