A cabinet minister in Belgium has said her country supports South Africa‘s lawsuit highlighting the Israeli genocide in Gaza at the International Court of Justice. “If the International Court of Justice issues a verdict against Israel regarding the genocide case, Belgium will fully support that verdict”, Caroline Genz, Minister of …
Read More »Bangladesh: UN’s Envoy to visit Rohingya refugee camp amid NGO complaints of rights violations
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet arrived in Bangladesh on Sunday (14 Aug 2022) to visit Rohingya refugee camps amid international NGO complaints of human rights violations in the country. Bachelet landed in Dhaka Sunday morning, a UN’s human rights official, Zahid Hossain, told EFE. She …
Read More »Bangladesh: Rally held by Rohingya refugees demanding to go home
A demonstration was staged by tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh demanding to go home. They demanded repatriation back to Myanmar, where they fled a brutal military crackdown five years ago. Almost a million Rohingya are confined to bamboo and tarpaulin shacks in 34 squalid camps in southeast …
Read More »Four thousand Rohingya Muslims protest dire conditions on Bangladesh island
ABNA: Several thousand Rohingya Muslims staged protests Monday against living conditions on a cyclone-prone island off Bangladesh where they were moved from vast camps on the mainland, police said. Since December, Bangladesh has shifted 18,000 out of a planned 100,000 refugees to the low-lying silt island of Bhashan Char from …
Read More »Bangladesh expects Myanmar to keep Rohingya repatriation commitments despite coup
IQNA: Bangladesh called for peace and stability in Myanmar after a military coup on Monday, and said it hoped its neighbor make genuine efforts to move forward the stalled process of voluntary repatriation of Rohingya Muslim refugees. Mainly-Muslim Bangladesh has sheltered 1 million Rohingya who had fled violence in Buddhist-majority …
Read More »Rohingya Muslims hold ‘silent protest’ on genocide anniversary
The Rohingya, described by the U.N. as one of the most mistreated communities in the world, have been facing systematic state aggression in the northern Rakhine state of Myanmar since the early 1970s, DailySabah reported
Read More »UN Rights Experts ‘Gravely’ Concerned Over Spike in Civilian Casualties in North-West Myanmar
Independent UN human rights experts last week voiced grave concern over the killing and displacement of civilians in north-west Myanmar during the intensifying conflict between the military and the Arakan Army, a Buddhist rebel group calling for greater autonomy for Rakhine, the UN website reported. “Civilians, including children, continue to …
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