UK accused of ‘abandoning’ Rohingya with ‘catastrophic’ 40% aid cut

The Guardian

Kaamil Ahmed
Fri 21 May 2021

Children in overcrowded Cox’s Bazar settlement likely to suffer most from reduced humanitarian spending, say campaigners

Campaigners have warned of a ‘lost generation’ of children if funding targets for the response in Myanmar are not met. Photograph: Kazi Salahuddin Razu/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock

The government has been accused of abandoning Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh after cutting aid to the humanitarian response by more than 40%.

The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) pledged £27.6m to the humanitarian sector’s joint response plan launched this week, compared with £47.5m last year.

The Legacy Of Aung San Suu Kyi’s Defense Of Military At International Court Of Justice – OpEd

eurasiareview
December 19, 2019
Burma Campaign UK

In our blog on 10 December, we wrote about why Aung San Suu Kyi may have decided to personally lead the defence against charges of genocide at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

Now that the first round of hearings is over, what has been the impact of that decision?

In the run-up to the hearings, state media went into overdrive portraying Aung San Suu Kyi as defending the nation against false accusations. The case was portrayed not as a state to state case focussed mainly on crimes by the military, but rather as one against the people of the country and an attempt at damaging the reputation of the country. Private media largely followed the same line, with some even saying it was everyone in the country being accused.

Western Union ေငြလႊဲကုမၸဏီကို ျမဝတီဘဏ္နဲ႔ လက္မတြဲဖို႔ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာအဖြဲ႔ေတြေတာင္းဆို

လြတ္လပ္တဲ့ အာရွအသံ ( RFA )
2019-10-31

တနသၤာရီတိုင္း၊ ထားဝယ္ၿမိဳ႕နယ္က ျမဝတီဘဏ္ခြဲ။
Photo: MOI Web Portal Myanmar

ကမာၻတဝွမ္း ေငြလႊဲလုပ္ငန္းလုပ္ေနတဲ့ Western Union ကုမၸဏီက ျမန္မာ့တပ္မေတာ္ရဲ့ ျမဝတီ ဘဏ္နဲ႔ ဆက္စပ္ေငြလႊဲေနတာကို ရပ္ဖို႔ အေမရိကန္နဲ႔ ၿဗိတိန္အေျခစိုက္ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာအဖြဲ႔ေတြက မေန႔ကရက္စြဲနဲ႔ ေၾကညာခ်က္ထုတ္ၿပီး တုိက္တြန္းေတာင္းဆိုလိုက္ပါတယ္။

ၿဗိတိန္အေျခစိုက္ ျမန္မာရိုဟင္ဂ်ာအဖြဲ႔ BROUK ၊ Burma Campaign UK နဲ႔ အေမရိကန္အေျခစိုက္ ရိုဟင္ ဂ်ာအေရးအျပည္ျပည္ဆိုင္ရာလႈပ္ရွားမႈအဖြဲ႔ International Campaign for the Rohingya ဆိုတဲ့ အဖြဲ႔သံုးဖြဲ႔က ေအာက္တိုဘာလ ၃၁ ရက္ေန႔မွာေတာင္းဆိုလိုက္တာပါ။

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