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A woman wears a medical mask in China. (file photo)

World Bank/Curt Carnemark

COVID-19 stoking xenophobia, hate and exclusion, minority rights expert warns

30 March 2020

Combatting the COVID-19 pandemic must also include stamping out what one independent human rights expert has called the “darker sides” of the disease: verbal and physical attacks against Chinese and other minority communities, and excluding them from access to healthcare.

Pierre Peron/OCHA

Report depicts violations against Rohingya in Myanmar

3 February 2017

General News

Members of the minority Rohingya community in Myanmar have reported mass gang rapes, killings, beatings and other violations they have suffered at the hands of the security forces.

The stark findings come in a report published this Friday by the UN human rights office (OHCHR) based on interviews conducted with Rohingya in neighbouring Bangladesh.

They had fled Myanmar’s Rakhine State in October following stepped up military operations in response to attacks on police outposts near the border.

UN Independent Expert on minority issues Rita Izsák.

Violaine Martin

Caste systems violate human rights of millions worldwide – new UN expert report

21 March 2016

At least 250 million people worldwide still face appalling and dehumanising discrimination based on caste and similar systems of inherited status, warned the United Nations expert on minority issues while presenting finding to the UN Human Rights Council.

The Rohingya, an ethnic, linguistic and religious minority in Myanmar.

IRIN/David Swanson

Targeted action needed to address plight of world’s deprived minorities – UN expert

19 March 2014

With greater international and national attention to their plight, disadvantaged minorities – often among the world’s most economically, politically and socially marginalized communities – can break free of their “left behind” status to participate in and benefit from the post-2015 development process, a United Nations human rights expert stressed today.

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