Need to promptly resolve root problem of Rohingya refugees: Marsudi

ANTARA
Thursday, December 14, 2023

Foreign Affairs Minister Retno Marsudi at the Global Refugee Forum (GRF) at the UN office in Geneva, Switzerland, on Wednesday (December 13, 2023). (ANTARA/HO-Kemlu RI)

Jakarta (ANTARA) - Foreign Affairs Minister Retno Marsudi, at the Global Refugee Forum (GRF) at the UN office in Geneva, Switzerland, on Wednesday, emphasized that the root problem of Rohingya refugees should be resolved immediately.

Delegation of the European Union to the UN and other international organisations in Geneva

europa
Geneva
21 June 2023 

Press and information team of the Delegation to the UN in Geneva

HRC53 - EU Statement - Panel discussion on the measures necessary to find durable solutions to the Rohingya crisis and to end all forms of human rights violations and abuses against Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar

 
UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
53th session 

Debate Over Myanmar Upends Start to UN Rights Body Session

U.S. News

Associated Press
JAMEY KEATEN, Associated Press
June 21, 2021,

FILE - In this Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020 file photo Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, speaks during a press conference at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. The U.N.’s top human rights body opened its latest session on Monday, June 21, 2021 and was immediately embroiled in a debate over the representation of Myanmar, where a military takeover toppled the civilian government in February. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP, file) THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

GENEVA (AP) — The U.N.’s top human rights body opened its latest session on Monday and was immediately embroiled in a debate over the representation of Myanmar, where a military takeover toppled the civilian government in February.

Western countries said two planned debates about the human rights situation in Myanmar during the Human Rights Council's 3-1/2 week session should go forward, even without the country represented. But China, the Philippines and Venezuela insisted it should be on hand.

29th Special Session of the Human Rights Council on the human rights implications of the crisis in Myanmar

Joint Statement by Tom Andrews, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar
and the Coordination Committee

Geneva, 12 February 2021

Madam President, Distinguished members of the United Nations Human Rights Council.

I’m delivering this statement on behalf of my mandate and on behalf of the Coordination Committee of Special Procedures. In light of the subject matter of the session today, the Committee has asked me to deliver our joint statement.  

We thank you for convening this Special – and very timely - session.

Introduction: The Need for Action

The very act of convening this session makes an important statement of the gravity with which this Council views what can aptly be described as an outrageous and illegal act – a coup d’état of a duly elected government and its duly elected leaders.

This is the 29th time that a Special Session of the Human Rights Council has convened. It is noteworthy, that the 27th Special Session was also convened to focus on illegal actions taken by the Myanmar military against its own people––in that case, the mass atrocity crimes that were committed against the Rohingya ethnic minority.

Dhaka asks UN to do more to solve Rohingya crisis

Dhaka Tribune

Humayun Kabir Bhuiyan

September 30th, 2020

Newly-appointed Permanent Representative to UN, Geneva Mustafizur Rahman presents his letter of credentialsto Tatiana Valovaya, director-general of the UN, Geneva on Sept 28, 2020 Courtesy

Newly-appointed Permanent Representative to UN, Geneva, Mustafizur Rahman presents his letter of credentials

Dhaka has urged the United Nations to play a more proactive role to find an acceptable solution at the earliest to the protracted Rohingya crisis that has been affecting Bangladesh in a bad manner for a long time.

Bangladesh’s newly-appointed Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva Mustafizur Rahman made the call while presenting his letter of credentials to Tatiana Valovaya, director-general of the UN, Geneva, on Monday.

Press Releases & Meeting Summaries

UNITED NATIONS
GENEVA
 2018

• 12 March 2018
  HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL DISCUSSES HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION IN MYANMAR

• 23 March 2018
  HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL EXTENDS MANDATES ON DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA, SYRIA, IRAN, SOUTH SUDAN AND MYANMAR
• 27 June 2018
  HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL HOLDS SEPARATE INTERACTIVE DIALOGUES WITH COMMISSION OF INQUIRY ON BURUNDI AND WITH SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON MYANMAR
• 4 July 2018
  HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL HOLDS INTERACTIVE DIALOGUE WITH THE HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ON THE SITUATION IN MYANMAR

• 26 July 2018
  NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF MYANMAR PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS OFFICE AT GENEVA

• 18 September 2018
  HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL HOLDS INTERACTIVE DIALOGUE WITH THE INDEPENDENT INTERNATIONAL FACT-FINDING MISSION ON MYANMAR

 2019

• 18 February 2019
  COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN HEARS FROM CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS FROM COLOMBIA, ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA, ETHIOPIA AND MYANMAR

• 11 March 2019
  HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL DISCUSSES THE SITUATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN MYANMAR
• 22 March 2019
  HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL ADOPTS FIVE RESOLUTIONS, EXTENDS MANDATES ON MALI AND MYANMAR, AND CLOSES FORTIETH SESSION

• 29 August 2019
  COMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES STRESSES THE NEEDS TO ADDRESS THE SITUATION OF WOMEN, GIRLS AND ETHNIC MINORITIES IN DIALOGUE WITH MYANMAR

Special Rapporteur on Myanmar & IIFFM Myanmar - Press Conference (Geneva, 12 September 2019)

UN  Web TV

Special Rapporteur on Myanmar & IIFFM Myanmar - Press Conference (Geneva, 12 September 2019) 

17 Sep 2019 - Subject: Sharing of the main findings of the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar and the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar 

Yanghee Lee, UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar Marzuki Darusman, Chair of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar

Radhika Coomaraswamy, Member of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar

Chris Sidoti, Member of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar 

Link:http://webtv.un.org/watch/special-rapporteur-on-myanmar-iiffm-myanmar-press-conference-geneva-12-september-2019/6087028480001/?term=&lan=french

UN expert: Suu Kyi’s role in Rohingya abuses still unclear

U.S. News
By Associated Press,   

Sept. 17, 2019,

 

A top U.N. investigator said Tuesday "it's still an open-ended question" about how much Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi could be implicated in human rights violations against Rohingya Muslims.

 

Marzuki Darusman, right, chairperson of the Independent International Fact-finding Mission on Myanmar speaks to the media about the main findings of the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar and the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar during a press conference, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP) (Associated Press)


GENEVA — A top U.N. investigator said Tuesday “it’s still an open-ended question” about how much Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi could be implicated in human rights violations against Rohingya Muslims.

UN Human Rights Council 41: Rohingya

GOV.UK

Published 10 July 2019
From: UK Mission to the United Nations Geneva

 

 

 

The UK reaffirmed calls for the safe, voluntary and dignified return of the Rohingya to Rakhine State. 


 Thank you, Mr President,

The UK thanks the Deputy-High Commissioner for her statement, and pays tribute to the vital work carried out by her office.

It has been almost two years since shocking crimes, perpetrated primarily by the Tatmadaw, took place against the Rohingya in Rakhine State. The atrocities against the Rohingya and other minorites, including their targeted persecution and explusion has been ethnic cleansing on an industrial scale. Over the last six months the dire and desperate situation in Rakhine State has worsened with clashes between the Arakan Army and the Tatmadaw resulting in further civilian casualties, including the Rohingya, and an increase in internally displaced people. We call upon both sides to exercise restraint and engage in dialogue.

႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာအေရး အေမရိကန္ ေဒၚလာ သန္း ၆၀ ကူ မည္

VOA
ဗြီအိုုေအ (ျမန္မာဌာန)
16 ေဖေဖာ္၀ါရီ၊ 2019

Cox's Bazar ေဒသ၊ Unchiprang ဒုကၡသည္စခန္းထဲက ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာမူဆလင္ေတြ ေရသယ္ယူေနစဥ္။ (ႏိုဝင္ဘာ ၁၆၊ ၂၀၁၈)

အေမရိကန္ဟာ ၂၀၁၉ ခုနွစ္ Bangladesh ဆိုင္ရာ ကုလသမဂၢ တုံ႔ျပန္ေဆာင္ရြက္ေရး ပူးတဲြ အစီအစဥ္ အရ အေမရိကန္ေဒၚလာ သန္းေပါင္း ၆၀ ကို လူသားခ်င္းစာနာမႈဆိုင္ရာ ေထာက္ပံ့မႈမွာကူညီမယ္လို႔ ေဖေဖာ္ဝါရီလ ၁၅ ရက္ေန႔ က Switzerland ႏိုင္ငံ Geneva ၿမိဳ႕ကေန ေၾကညာခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ဒီ ေငြေၾကး ေထာက္ပံ့မႈ ဟာ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံကေန အစုလိုက္ အၿပံဳလိုက္ ထြက္ေျပးလာတဲ့ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာ မူဆလင္ အမ်ိဳးသမီး ေတြနဲ႔ ကေလးအမ်ားစု အပါ အဝင္ Bangladeshမွာ ရွိတဲ့ ဒုကၡသည္ေပါင္း ၉၀၀,၀၀၀ ေက်ာ္ ရဲ႕ အေရးေပၚ လိုအပ္ ခ်က္ေတြ နဲ႔ အိမ္ရွင္ Bangladesh အဖဲြ႔အစည္းေတြရဲ႕ သက္ဆိုင္ရာလိုအပ္ခ်က္ေတြမွာ ကူညီသြား မွာ ျဖစ္္ပါတယ္။

Dhaka wants UNHCR to ask other countries to open doors

NEWAGE

Diplomatic Correspondent | Published: 15:41, Feb 14,2019

Foreign minister AK Abdul Momen on Wednesday stressed the need for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to take steps to convince the other countries except Bangladesh to allow Rohingya people of Myanmar to cross their respective borders. 

‘We have taken enough people (from Myanmar),’ he said replying to a question on the UNHCR’s call to keep the Bangladesh borders open for more Myanmar people. 

People Flee Escalating Violence in Myanmar's Rakhine, Southern Chin States.

VOA NEWS
February 10, 2019,
By: Lisa Schlein

A Mro ethnic women with child displaced from the surge of fighting between ethnic armed rebel group of the Arakan Army and government troops take refuge at a compound of a Buddhist pagoda in Buthidaung township in the restive Rakhine state, Jan. 25, 2019.

GENEVA — The U.N. refugee agency says it is worried by reports of people fleeing escalating violence in Myanmar's southern Chin State and Rakhine State, adding to growing instability in these regions.

UN expert concerned over escalating conflict in Myanmar.

Yanghee Lee expresses alarm on escalating violence in Rakhine, Chin States, calls for protection of civilians
Anadolu Agency (AA News),19.01.2019
GENEVA

A UN expert expressed her concerns over the escalating conflict in northern and central Rakhine and Chin States of Myanmar on Friday, calling for the protection of civilians in the region.

Myanmar: UN expert expresses alarm at escalating conflict, calls for civilian protection.

18th January 2019

• Heavy fighting between the army and ethnic group in Rakhine, Chin States
• At least 5,000 civilians displaced from homes
• Humanitarian aid blocked by Govt must be allowed to resume

GENEVA (18 January 2019) – The UN’s human rights expert on Myanmar expressed alarm at the escalating violence in northern and central Rakhine State and Chin State, and called on all sides to exercise restraints in use of force and to ensure the protection of civilians.