Dhaka highlights Rohingya crisis challenges in talks with Ottawa

Dhaka Tribune
UNB
Publish : 10 Feb 2025

A meeting between Foreign Adviser Hossain and visiting Minister of International Development of Canada Ahmed Hussen at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Photo: UNB

Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain has highlighted the "considerable challenges" that Bangladesh faces in accommodating Rohingyas and stressed the importance of facilitating sustainable repatriations of the forcibly displaced population.

The issue was discussed during a courtesy meeting between Touhid and Canadian Minister of International Development Ahmed Hussen at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday.

5 European nations and Canada seek to join genocide case against Myanmar at top UN court

abc News
MIKE CORDER Associated Press
November 16, 2023, 

Five European nations and Canada are seeking to join a case brought by Gambia at the United Nations’ highest court accusing Myanmar of committing genocide against its Rohingya minority.


THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- Five European countries and Canada are seeking to join a case brought by Gambia at the United Nations' highest court that accuses Myanmar of committing genocide against its Rohingya minority.

The International Court of Justice said Thursday that Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK had joined with Canada in filing a “declaration of intervention in the case.” The Maldives filed a separate declaration.

Dhaka urges Canada to send 2m vaccines

Dhaka Tribune

BSS
May 18th, 2021

Foreign minister also separately proposed that Canada help vaccinating forcibly displaced Rohingyas in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh on Tuesday urged Canada to send at least two million doses of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine to Bangladesh to meet immediate second dose vaccine requirements in the country.

The request was made when Canadian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Benoit Préfontaine called on Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen at the Foreign Ministry in Dhaka, a foreign ministry press release said.

Canada must help find a safe zone for Rohingya in Myanmar

HAMILTON THE SPECTATOR

By Washim Ahmed
Wed., March 10, 2021

Myanmar is once again attracting international attention after its military overthrew Aung San Suu Kyi’s elected government declaring a state of emergency for a period of one year. All G7 members condemned the coup and Canada has introduced sanctions against nine additional Myanmar military officials under the Special Economic Measures (Burma) Regulations passed in 2007, bringing the total count to 54.

Rohingya refugee family finds new home in city

Devon Dispatch

Michelle Ruby 

More from Michelle Ruby

Members of a Rohingya refugee family got an early taste of the Canadian winter when they arrived in Brantford.

The early November snowfall was a first for Anuwar Yosof, his wife, Bilkis Husen, and their sons, Rehan, 4, and one-year-old Ridhwan.

“We brought a hot meal to their door and he said, ‘I can’t come out because it’s all white outside,” Imam Abu Noman Tarek of the Brantford Mosque, said with a laugh.

Donors reiterate support for Rohingya

FINANCIAL EXPRESS
September 25, 2020  
                                  
                          Envoys of US, EU, UK, Canada visit Cox's Bazar

File Photo used for representational purpose 

Representatives of the international community in Bangladesh conducted a two-day visit to Cox's Bazar and visited the Rohingya refugee camps. They reiterated their commitment to support Rohingya refugees in a joint statement on Thursday

The representatives include the ambassadors of the United States (US) and the European Union (EU), the British High Commissioner, the Head of Humanitarian Aid of the Canadian High Commission, the World Bank (WB) Country Director, and the United Nations (UN) Resident Coordinator.

Canada, Netherlands join Gambia's genocide case against Myanmar

Aljazeera
03 September 2020


The two nations will pay special attention to prosecuting gender-based violence against Rohingya, including rape.

More than 730,000 Rohingya fled Myanmar and crossed into Bangladesh after a brutal military crackdown in 2017 [File: Mohammad Ponir Hossain/ Reuters]

Canada and the Netherlands will formally join The Gambia's legal bid to hold Myanmar accountable over allegations of genocide against its mostly-Muslim Rohingya minority in a move described by observers as historic.

In a joint statement on Wednesday, Canadian Foreign Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne and his Dutch counterpart Stef Blok said the two nations were intervening in the case before the International Court of Justice in order "to prevent the crime of genocide and hold those responsible to account".

Canada: Using all tools against Myanmar for solution to Rohingya crisis

Dhaka Tribune
Tribune Desk
December 7th, 2019

File photo of Canadian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Benoit Préfontaine Collected

 

The causes and solutions to the crisis lie in Myanmar, Benoit Préfontaine said

Canada has said they are using all tools at their disposal, including sanctions, against Myanmar leaders and companies as well as diplomatic efforts to help find a solution to Rohingya crisis.

"We fully agree that the causes and solutions to the crisis lie in Myanmar, and this is why we are using all tools at our disposal to help," Canadian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Benoit Préfontaine.

Canada lauds Bangladesh for sheltering Rohingyas

The Daily Star
June 28, 2019

Expresses concern over lack of democratic space, rights situation

While Canada lauds Bangladesh for sheltering Rohingyas, it remains concerned about a lack of democratic space and human rights issues in the country, said Canadian High Commissioner to Dhaka Benoit Préfontaine yesterday.

“We note that there are human rights issues which we do raise with the government time to time. We remain concerned about a lack of democratic space in the country, enforced disappearances, and workers’ rights,” he said.

Canada urged to take international legal action on Rohingya genocide

CKPGToday.ca

By Canadian Press

Jun 27, 2019

 

OTTAWA — The Trudeau government is facing mounting pressure from across the country to take more international action to hold Myanmar to account for the genocide of the Rohingya people.

Thirty-four senators and more than 100 human-rights organizations and advocates sent a joint letter to Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland this week urging Canada to initiate proceedings before the International Court of Justice for breaching the United Nations convention against genocide.

Joint letter urges Canada to take international legal action on Rohingya genocide

 

OTTAWA
The Canadian Press

 

The Trudeau government is facing mounting pressure from across the country to take more international action to hold Myanmar to account for the genocide of the Rohingya people.

Thirty-four senators and more than 100 human-rights organizations and advocates sent a joint letter to Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland this week urging Canada to initiate proceedings before the International Court of Justice for breaching the United Nations convention against genocide.

႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္ေတြအတြက္ ကေနဒါ ေဒၚလာ သန္း ၁၀၀နီးပါး ကူမည္

VOA

23 ေမ၊ 2019
ဗြီအိုေအ (ျမန္မာပုိင္း)

႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္မ်ား

ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ ႏိုင္ငံက ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြအတြက္ လူသားခ်င္းစာနာမႈနဲ႔ ဖံြ႔ၿဖိဳးတိုးတက္ေရးလုပ္ငန္းေတြအတြက္ ကေနဒါႏိုင္ငံက ကေနဒါ ေဒၚလာသန္း ၁၀၀ နီးပါးေပးမယ္လို႔ ေၾကညာခဲ့ပါတယ္။ အားလံုးအတြက္ သာယာ ဝေျပာတဲ့ အနာဂတ္ကို တည္ေဆာက္ႏိုင္ဖုိ႔ ေထာက္ပံ့ကူညီတာျဖစ္တယ္လို႔ ႏိုင္ငံတကာဖံြ႔ၿဖိဳး မႈဆိုင္ရာ ကေနဒါလႊတ္ေတာ္အမတ္ Kamal Khera က ထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကညာခ်က္မွာ ေဖာ္ျပထားပါတယ္။

Canada to give $100m aid for Rohingya crisis

The Daily Star

May 22, 2019

 

In this AFP file photo taken on November 26, 2017, Rohingya refugees walk down a hillside in the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.

Canada has announced almost US $100 million in humanitarian aid for the Rohingyas currently sheltered in Bangladesh’s refugee camps.

Kamal Khera, Parliamentary Secretary to Canada’s minister of international development, announced the aid today, said a press release today.

Senate motion urges more action from Liberal government in response to Rohingya crisis

The Telegram

Marie-Danielle Smith,
Published: May 01

OTTAWA — A Senate motion will urge the Liberal government to meet Canada’s international treaty obligations by holding Myanmar accountable for its treatment of the Rohingya Muslim minority.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government is hypocritical, say some, for making regretful statements about historical events such as the Holocaust and the Rwandan genocide but failing to do more to stop what Parliament has unanimously acknowledged as an ongoing genocide.

Senate motion urges more action from Liberal government in response to Rohingya crisis.

OTAWA
CITIZEN

May 1, 2019

By: MARIE-DANIELLE SMITH

Critics call Trudeau's government hypocritical for making regretful statements about events such as the Holocaust but failing to do more to stop an ongoing genocide

Rohingya refugees watch as firefighters douse flames after a fire broke out in the Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh, April 24, 2019. AP

OTTAWA — A Senate motion will urge the Liberal government to meet Canada’s international treaty obligations by holding Myanmar accountable for its treatment of the Rohingya Muslim minority.

Congress steps in, once more, to fill Trump's silence on human rights in Myanmar

abc NEWS
By Conor Finnegan Apr 19, 2019

Both chambers have introduced bills to address human rights in the country.

WATCH | Trump: 'I'm having a good day!'

Amid ongoing concern about human rights in Myanmar, including the violence against the Rohingya ethnic minority, Congress is again trying to step in to fill a gap left by the Trump administration.

A bipartisan pair of lawmakers are set to introduce legislation in the House calling out Myanmar's government for its ongoing detention of political prisoners, including two Reuters journalists, and to provide new funding to the State Department to support organizations working for the prisoners' release, according to an advanced copy of the bill shared first with ABC News.

Lessons about hate and genocide being rolled out in Quebec high schools

EDMONTON JOURNAL

The Canadian Press

Updated: April 6, 2019 

 

 

A survey that polled 1,100 Canadians indicated 22 per cent of respondents between 18 and 34 years old were unaware or unsure if they had heard of the Holocaust 

 

MONTREAL — A foundation that educates young people about genocide says it is partnering with the Quebec government to offer high school teachers a guide on how to sensitize students to the warning signs leading to the systematic destruction of a group of people.

‘I Am Doing This for Every Place Where Rape Is a Weapon of War.’ Meet the Woman Documenting Sexual Violence Against Myanmar's Rohingya.

TIME
27th March 2019 
BY LAIGNEE BARRON 

Razia Sultana, a Rohingya lawyer and advocate, speaks during a press conference in Ottawa, Canada on Sept. 20, 2018.  Sean Kilpatrick—AP

When Rohingya refugees began fleeing into Bangladesh in 2016 and 2017, lawyer and activist Razia Sultana found herself on the frontline of a sexual violence epidemic.

The Myanmar military, in its scorched-earth campaign against the Muslim minority, laid waste to entire villages, carried out massacres and lined up women to be raped, according to U.N. investigators, who have called for the alleged crimes to be prosecuted as genocide. As the exodus swelled to more than 770,000, Razia Sultana got to work documenting the violence.

Tackling Rohingya Crisis: Canada calls for 'transition plan'

The Daily Star 

Thursday, "March 14, 2019"

With no job or edn, refugees can be drawn to crime, radicalisation, Bob Rae says

 Bob Rae, Canadian prime minister’s special envoy to Myanmar speaks at a panel on the Rohingya crisis at the Westin Hotel Dhaka on Tuesday, February 5, 2019. Photo: Porimal Palma

Canada wants a transition plan for the Rohingyas as the repatriation process appears slow amid the refugees' lack of willingness in returning to Myanmar due to insecurity and non-conducive conditions in Rakhine.

Waterloo Region welcomes 27 Rohingya refugees

KITCHNER TODAY
By Maddie Demarte/KitchenerToday.com


The Islamic Circle of North America sponsored the refugees, and will help them begin their new life in Canada. 

27 Rohingya refugees arrived in Kitchener Wednesday.

The refugees range in age from seven months old to 80 years old.

The Islamic Circle of North America sponsored the refugees, and will help them begin their new life in Canada.