Chinese Gov’t poses global threat to human rights: study

By Citizen Reporter,

The Chinese government is carrying out an intense attack on the global system for defending human rights. According to Human Rights Watch, the Chin...

chinese , human rights , Trump

More than 100 dead and 6 million affected by flooding across South Asia

By CNN,

The death toll in South Asia continues to rise after flooding and landslides ravaged the border region of India and Nepal, leaving tens of thousands d...

flooding , India , SOUTH ASIA

Second group of Rohingya Muslims found on Malaysian beach: police

By Reuters,

Thirty-seven people believed to be Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar were found on a beach in northern Malaysia on Monday, police said, the latest arrival...

Malaysia , ROHINGYA

U.N. urges social media, investors to promote human rights in Myanmar

By Reuters,

Social media firms and foreign investors must do more to ensure they support human rights in Myanmar, U.N. Special Rapporteur Yanghee Lee said on Tues...

Myanmar , social media , U.N , U.N. Human Rights Council

Bangladesh tells U.N. Security Council cannot take more Myanmar refugees

By Reuters,

Bangladesh told the United Nations Security Council on Thursday that it cannot take any more refugees from Myanmar, some 18 months after more than 700...

Bangladesh , ROHINGYA

Philippines journalist Maria Ressa’s court appearance postponed

By CNN,

Maria Ressa, the Philippine journalist and outspoken critic of President Rodrigo Duterte, has had her court appearance postponed, after she filed a mo...

Maria Ressa , Philippines journalist Maria Ressa's court appearance postponed

Bangladesh probes vote rigging allegations in election hit by violence

By Reuters,

Bangladesh’s Election Commission is investigating allegations of vote rigging coming from across the country on Sunday, a spokesman told Reuters, as...

Bangladesh , Bangladesh elections

Rohingya end hard year still in limbo

By VOA,

More than 750,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees who fled military attacks in Myanmar remain in Bangladesh camps as future repatriation and resettlement pla...

Bangladesh , Brad Adams , Chairman Ed Royce , International Criminal Court (ICC). , Kyaw Hla Aung , Rakhine state , ROHINGYA , Rosario Manalo , unicef

Myanmar says policeman found dead near border with Bangladesh

By Reuters,

The body of a missing Myanmar policeman was found on the country’s troubled border with Bangladesh, state media and officials said on Sunday after a...

Bangladesh , Lt. Colonel Tin Han Linn , Major Mohammad Iqbal , Myanmar , ROHINGYA , U.N

Facebook takes down more Myanmar accounts over military links

By Reuters,

Facebook Inc (FB.O) has removed hundreds of additional accounts, pages and groups in Myanmar from its social networks after discovering what it called...

U.N. Security Council mulls Myanmar action; Russia, China boycott talks

By Reuters,

The U.N. Security Council is considering action to push Myanmar to work with the United Nations to address the Rohingya refugee crisis, although China...

Ambassador Hau Do Suan , Ambassador Ma Zhaoxu , Bangladesh , Britain , china , France , Myanmar , Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi , Rakhine state , Rohingya Community , russia , The United States , U.N. Security Council

‘We can’t go anywhere’: Myanmar closes Rohingya camps but ‘entrenches segregation’

By Reuters,

As the world was focused on abortive efforts to begin repatriating hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh to Myanmar last month, h...

Aung San Suu Kyi , Khin Maung , Knut Ostby , Myanmar , Rakhine , ROHINGYA , Win Myat Aye

At site of Rohingya Massacre, Burmese villagers say little

By VOA,

Kyaw Soe Moe, the head man of this northern Rakhine state best known as the site of a massacre of 10 Muslim men and boys by their Buddhist neighbors a...

Myanmar seizes boat carrying 93 fleeing Rohingya camps for Malaysia

By Reuters,

Authorities in Myanmar have seized a boat carrying 93 people, apparently Rohingya Muslims, fleeing displacement camps in western Myanmar’s Rakhine S...

Myanmar , ROHINGYA

Myanmar police shoot, injure four in raid on Rohingya camp

By Reuters,

Myanmar police shot and injured four Rohingya Muslims on Sunday, after detaining two men accused of smuggling people out of a camp for displaced peopl...

Ah Nauk Ye camp , Malaysia , Rakhine state , Rohingya Community , Thailand , U.N , Yangon , Zaw Htay

Over 100 suspected Rohingya Muslims arrested aboard boat in Yangon, official says

By Reuters,

More than 100 suspected Rohingya Muslims were arrested aboard a boat in Yangon, Myanmar’s largest city, officials said, raising fears of a fresh wav...

Bangladesh , Myanmar , ROHINGYA MUSLIMS , Yangon

Facebook’s Cameroon problem: stop online hate stoking conflict

By Reuters,

A video link posted on Facebook on June 20 showed a man cooking human body parts in a pot over a wood fire. In Cameroon, the footage went viral. So...

68.5M people displaced worldwide: UN

By AFP,

A record 68.5 million people have been forced flee their homes due to war, violence and persecution, notably in places like Myanmar and Syria, the UN ...

refugees , UNHCR

UN denies arrested journalists had given information

By Reuters,

Two Reuters reporters arrested in Myanmar had not passed any information to the United Nations, the world body said, rejecting a report published in d...

Myanmar , Myanmar crisis , Reuters , Reuters journalists , Reuters journalists arrested in Myanmar , Reuters reporters , ROHINGYA , ROHINGYA CRISIS , ROHINGYA MUSLIMS , ROHINGYA REFUGEES , UN denies arrested journalists had given information , United Nations

At least 12 dead, scores missing in Rohingya capsize: officials

By Citizen Reporter,

At least 12 people died and scores were missing Monday after a boat packed with Rohingya refugees -- many of them children -- capsized, the latest tra...

ROHINGYA , ROHINGYA CRISIS , ROHINGYA MUSLIMS , ROHINGYA REFUGEES