HRW calls on UN to support protection and justice measures for Rohingya

Mizzima
September 30, 2025

Human Rights Watch (HRW) press release on 29 September calls on United Nations member states to commit to urgent action on 30 September meeting on the plight of the Rohingya in Myanmar. HRW says Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, Bangladesh and across Asia in need of protection from persecution and violence. The text of the press release continues below.

ASEAN must act now to ease Rohingya crisis

daily observer 
Saturday, 6 September, 2025 

The Asian Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) has once again sounded the alarm on the escalating crisis facing Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.

At a press briefing held at the Dhaka Reporters Unity, following a meeting with Nobel laureate Dr. Muhammad Yunus, APHR called on ASEAN to immediately establish a dedicated humanitarian fund to address the dire needs of over 1.3 million refugees stranded in Cox's Bazar.

Bangladesh seeks Malaysia's role to address Rohingya crisis: CA

BSS
Update : 18 Aug 2025,

Chief Adviser Professor Dr Muhammad Yunus -File Photo

DHAKA, Aug 17, 2025 (BSS) - Chief Adviser Professor Dr Muhammad Yunus said Bangladesh is seeking Malaysia's influence, particularly its role as ASEAN Chair, to rally international efforts to address the prolonged Rohingya refugee crisis in the country.

Yunus seeks Malaysia’s clout for resolving Rohingya crisis

The Daily Star
Diplomacy
Bernama, Kuala Lumpur
Sun Aug 17, 2025 

Bangladesh hopes to leverage Malaysia's influence as Asean chair to bolster international efforts in resolving the long-standing Rohingya refugee crisis, Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus said in an exclusive interview with Malaysian state media Bernama.

To reckon with the Rohingya genocide, Min Aung Hlaing’s arrest is a critical start

almayadeen
Hannan Hussain
Source: Al Mayadeen English
18 Dec 2024

Given the unspeakable brutality, condemnation, and injustices directed toward Rohingya Muslims, a warrant against Hlaing is a bare minimum of what ought to follow. 

Min Aung Hlaing's arrest is a cretical start to reckon with the Rohingya genocide ( illustrated by Batoul Chamas )

Min Aung Hlaing, Myanmar’s de-facto military ruler, was the commander in chief during the 2017 Rohingya genocide. It was under his watch that Rohingya Muslims were subject to a horrific ethnic cleansing campaign that entailed rape, mass murder, and demolition of villages. Scores of children were beaten to death, and mosques were targeted.

China Compels Myanmar Rebel Groups To Negotiate With Junta – OpEd

eurasiareview
By Subir Bhaumik
December 10, 2024

China has forced two powerful armed rebel groups in north Myanmar to start negotiations with the Burmese military junta and call off the 1027 offensive they started October last year.

Experts say this might well be the most decisive Chinese intervention to stop a conflict in its neighborhood and might well set the tenor for a more proactive future policy on such issues.

ICC’s Request For Min Aung Hlaing’s Arrest Warrant: A Call For Realistic Expectations And Strategic Action – OpEd

eurasiareview
By James Shwe
November 30, 2024

Myanmar's military junta leader, General Min Aung Hlaing. Photo Credit: Mil.ru

As the international community learns of the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) request for an arrest warrant for Myanmar’s junta chief Min Aung Hlaing (MAH), it is essential for supporters of democracy and human rights to approach this development with cautious optimism and strategic foresight. This marks the first request by the ICC prosecutor for a warrant against a senior Myanmar official, signaling a significant move toward accountability for the Rohingya crisis. 

2 Rohingya groups want Malaysia to push for protection as Asean chair

FMT
Pan Eu Joe-

KUALA LUMPUR:
05 Nov 2024, 

The Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK and Free Rohingya Coalition also want Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim to put pressure on Myanmar’s military junta and Arakan groups to stop the genocide of the community.

The ongoing conflict in Myanmar’s Rakhine state has led to thousands of deaths and forced many to flee. (AP pic)
 

Two Rohingya rights groups are calling on Malaysia to play a key role in protecting the community when it takes over as the Asean chair next year.

The two NGOs, the Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK) and Free Rohingya Coalition (FRC), called on Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim to pressure the Myanmar military junta and Arakan groups to stop the genocide of the community.

Chief adviser seeks ‘safe zone guaranteed by UN’ for displaced people in Rakhine

prothomalo
BSS Dhaka
Published: 15 Oct 2024, 

Special rapporteur of the UN on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Thomas Andrews calls on chief adviser professor Dr. Muhammad Yunus at his Tejgaon office in Dhaka on 14 October 2024BSS

Chief adviser professor Dr. Muhammad Yunus Monday called for creating a “safe zone guaranteed by the UN” for the displaced people in Rakhine and finding ways to support them.

He made the call when Thomas Andrews, the special rapporteur of the UN on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, called on the chief adviser at his Tejgaon office in the city.

ရိုဟင်ဂျာတွေကို အဓမ္မစစ်မှုထမ်းခိုင်းတာရပ်တန့်အောင် စစ်ကောင်စီကို ဖိအားပေးဖို့တောင်းဆို

RFA
RFA Burmese
2024.07.26 

မွတ်စလင်များအား စစ်ယူနီဖောင်းဝတ်ဆင်ပေးပြီး စစ်သင်တန်းပေးနေသည်ကို ၂၀၂၄ ခုနှစ် မတ်လ ၁၀ ရက်နေ့က တွေ့ရစဉ်။Citizen Photo

ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်နိုင်ငံရှိ ဒုက္ခသည်စခန်းတွေက ရိုဟင်ဂျာတွေကို ဖမ်းဆီးပြီး အတင်းအဓမ္မ မြန်မာစစ်တပ် က စစ်မှုထမ်းခိုင်းတာတွေကို ရပ်တန့်အောင် နိုင်ငံတကာအနေနဲ့ ဆောင်ရွက်ပေးဖို့ Fortify Rights အဖွဲ့က ဇူလိုင်လ ၂၆ ရက်နေ့က တောင်းဆိုလိုက်ပါတယ်။ 

UN Shows Conflicting Approaches to Myanmar Crisis

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
John Sifton
Asia Advocacy Director
April 4, 2024 

The United Nations Security Council’s first open meeting on Myanmar since 2019, New York, April 4, 2024. © 2024 John Sifton/Human Rights Watch

Myanmar’s already abysmal human rights situation is getting worse.

That’s what senior United Nations officials told the UN Security Council on April 4, during a rare open meeting on Myanmar, its first since February 2019.

The council heard of a spiraling human rights and humanitarian catastrophe, with particularly worrisome abuses in Rakhine State. Conflict has “weakened transnational security” and instability has led to a crisis with “global implications,” officials said.

As Crisis in Myanmar Worsens, Security Council Must Take Resolute Action to End Violence by Country’s Military, Address Humanitarian Situation, Speakers Urge

United Nation
9595th Meeting (AM)
SC/15652
4 April 2024

Meetings Coverage and Press Releases

Senior UN Official Announces Plan to Appoint Special Envoy ‘in the Coming Days’ 

 Bringing the multifaceted crisis in Myanmar to the fore, speakers urged the Security Council today to take decisive measures to end violence by that country’s military and address the deteriorating humanitarian situation, also calling for the swift appointment of a United Nations Special Envoy to enhance the Organization’s engagement on the matter.

We must not allow Myanmar to become a forgotten crisis: UK statement at the UN Security Council

GOV.UK
From: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office and Dame Barbara Woodward DCMG OBE Published4 April 2024

Statement by Ambassador Barbara Woodward at the UN Security Council meeting on Myanmar. 

Thank you President, and thank you ASG Khiari and Director Doughten for your insightful briefings.

Colleagues, as we’ve heard, it is now over three years since the Myanmar military overturned the democratically elected government, setting the country on a path of violence and humanitarian suffering.

Myanmar Asylum Seeker Crisis Needs a Humane and Regional Solution

THE I DIPLOMATS
By Perry Q. Wood
April 01, 2024

 A more coordinated response would open more formal channels for asylum seekers to seek refuge in other countries.

In this image from a video, Rohingya refugees walk at the Balukhali refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, on Feb. 2, 2021.

Credit: AP Photo/Shafiqur Rahman, File

More deaths at sea, another capsized boat and more tragedy. This time it is Rohingya fleeing either persecution in Myanmar or unlivable conditions in makeshift camps outside the country. Seventy deaths and counting from the latest incident alone.

The Rohingya in Cox’s Bazar: 45 Years On

The Irrawaddy
by Tony Waters and R.J. Aung
March 6, 2024

Rohingya refugees wait to receive supplies of rice, water and cooking oil at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar. /AFP

A month after the prime minister of Bangladesh raised concerns about the possibility of Rohingya repatriation, UNHCR representatives in Myanmar met with the junta’s education minister on February 7 to discuss repatriation. Meanwhile, Bangladeshi officials are reluctant to act in any way that might be perceived as taking sides between the junta and the ethnic Arakan Army; Bangladesh has perhaps started to understand there is a new sheriff in Rakhine, just across the Naf River.

Helping the abandoned Rohingya

The Jarkarta Post
Editorial board (The Jakarta Post) Jakarta
Mon, December 18, 2023

Newly arrived Rohingya refugees wait to board trucks to move to a temporary shelter after villagers rejected their relocated camp in Banda Aceh, Aceh, on Dec. 11, 2023. Some of the more than 300 Rohingya refugees who arrived on the western coasts of Indonesia on Dec. 10 were transferred to a temporary shelter during the visit of a United Nations representative. (AFP/Chaideer Mahyuddin)

The central government must help the people and government of Aceh deal with the ongoing influx of Rohingya refugees and, if necessary, take over their humanitarian burden. The beleaguered Rohingya, our Southeast Asian neighbors, have fled their homes and shelters to escape systematic ethnic cleansing and seek a better future. 

Office of the Special Envoy Engagements with Myanmar Stakeholders Jakarta, 20-22 November 2023

Ministry of foreign Affairs of Republic of Indonesia
Friday, 24/November/2023

Jakarta (22/11) – Continuing the process undertaken as the ASEAN Chair 2023, the Office of the Special Envoy on Myanmar has organised a meeting attended by major stakeholders of Myanmar to push forward the implementation of the Five-Point Consensus (5PC) and work towards the convening of inclusive dialogues for a comprehensive and durable political solution to the crisis in Myanmar.

Indonesian Foreign Minister: The Rohingya Cry in Silence, We Must Not Remain Silent

MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA
Friday, 22/September/2023 

 

New York, USA - "The fate of the Rohingya community remains unclear. The global situation and domestic conditions in Myanmar make this issue more complex and difficult. Strong political commitment to resolve this issue is inevitable," said Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi at a Side Event meeting on Rohingya entitled "Have they Forgotten Us? Ensuring Continued Global Solidarity with the Rohingya of Myanmar" on the sidelines of the High Level Week of the 78th UN General Assembly Session (21/9).

PM for redouble global support to end Rohingya crisis

daily Sun
BSS, New York
23rd September, 2023

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the world community, particularly the ASEAN member states, to redouble their collective efforts to repatriate Rohingyas to their homeland in Myanmar side by side with executing the resolutions of security council and general assembly to ensure a sustainable solution to the crisis.

Bangladesh asks ASEAN to "carry" Rohingya

KOMPAS
FX LAKSANA AGUNG SAPUTRA DARI NEW YORK, AS
23 September 2023 

The fate of the Rohingya ethnic group who were forced to flee Myanmar in 2017 is unclear. The issue is getting deeper and deeper with various recent dynamics. 

KOMPAS/FX LAKSANA AGUNG SAPUTRA

From left to right, Director General of the International Organization for Migration, Antonio Vitorino, President of Timor Leste, Jose Ramos-Horta, Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, and Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim AA Khan KC. The meeting discussed the Rohingya issue which was held during the High Level Week of the 78th United Nations General Assembly in New York, United States, on Thursday (21/9/2023).

NEW YORK, KOMPAS - Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urged ASEAN to continue prioritizing the Rohingya issue as a significant regional agenda. She encouraged ASEAN to increase efforts to build trust in Myanmar, so that Rohingya ethnic groups could return to their homeland with dignity.