Myanmar

The International charity “Doctors Without Borders” has warned that hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims residing in refugee camps in Bangladesh may face serious risk of malnutrition, after international donors cut food aid allocated to them. A statement by the…

A massive fire raced through an overcrowded refugee camp for Rohingya people in southern Bangladesh, leaving thousands homeless, a fire official and the United Nations said. Thousands of people lost their homes as the fire, which broke out on Sunday,…

The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar Tom Andrews made an urgent appeal to Member States today to reverse “the shameful, catastrophic cuts” to food rations for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh that began to be…

Malaysia has deported 114 Muslim Myanmar nationals who will be persecuted by the ruling military when they return, although they are not Rohingya, their lawyer said Thursday, Radio Free Asia reported. Amnesty International Malaysia said Kuala Lumpur returned the Myanmar…

The independent UN expert tasked with investigating the situation in Myanmar has called on the international community to “do a lot more” to protect the vulnerable Rohingya population in the country’s Rakhine State. Tom Andrews, whose official title is UN…

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk is condemning the increasing brutality and wholesale repression of Myanmar’s military leaders to maintain their iron grip on power. United Nations rights chief Volker Türk says Myanmar has plunged ever deeper…

A human rights group and 16 people from Myanmar have filed a criminal complaint in Germany seeking punishment of Myanmar’s generals for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity they alleged were committed in that country after their 2021 government…

Rohingya refugees are increasingly embarking upon hazardous journeys to Southeast Asia to escape the dangers of an uncertain life in the refugee camps of eastern Bangladesh, according to reports. In early December, around 150 such refugees were stranded at sea…

Dozens of hungry and weak Rohingya refugees were found on a beach in Indonesia’s northernmost province of Aceh after weeks at sea, officials said on Sunday. The group of 58 men arrived on Indrapatra beach at Ladong, a fishing village in Aceh…