Remarks at a High-Level Conference on the Situation of Rohingya Muslims and Other Minorities in Myanmar

United States Mission to the United Nations
September 30, 2025 

Charles Harder
Special Envoy for Best Future Generations
New York, New York

AS PREPARED

Thank you, Chair. Thank you, to the President of the General Assembly, and all speakers today.

The United States expresses its support for Rohingya and other Myanmar minorities who have been victims of repression and violence. Survivors of that persecution are here with us today. I commend their bravery in speaking out. 

Rohingya Plea for International Intervention: UN High-Level Meeting Highlights Crisis

Devdiscouse
Devdiscourse News Desk | United Nations 
Updated: 02-10-2025

At a historic United Nations high-level meeting, Rohingya Muslims urged the international community to prevent mass killings in Myanmar and help them achieve normal lives. Despite decades of violence, displacement, and genocidal acts, the Rohingya continue to face severe human rights abuses without substantial international intervention.

 

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In a significant gathering at the United Nations, Rohingya Muslims made an impassioned plea to the global community for intervention against the ongoing mass killings in Myanmar. The high-level meeting aimed to shed light on their decades-long suffering and the extreme conditions they continue to endure.

Rohingya plight in Myanmar, a ‘test for humanity’

UNITED NATION
By Vibhu Mishra 
30 September 2025

© UNICEF/Mackenzie Knowles-Coursin Rohingya refugees cross the Naf River on a makeshift raft while fleeing violence in Myanmar, on their way to Bangladesh in 2017

“Houses burned. Neighbours killed. Hope vanishing.” With those stark words, General Assembly President Annalena Baerbock opened a high-level UN conference on Tuesday, as alarm rises over the impact of Myanmar’s deepening crisis which threatens to destabilise the wider region.

Rohingya Noticeably Absent From U.N. Conference

FP 
Foreign Policy
Alexandra Sharp,
September 30, 2025, 

Rohingya refugees gather to listen United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres during his visit to a refugee camp in Ukhia, Bangladesh, on March 14. Munir Uz Zaman/AFP via Getty Images 

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Rohingyas hold rally in Cox's Bazar ahead of UN high-level conference

daily observer
Published : Saturday, 27 September, 2025  
Upazila Representative

Ahead of the upcoming UN high-level international conference on the Rohingya issue scheduled for September 30 at United Nations headquarters in New York, Rohingya refugees staged a significant rally on Saturday in Camp no. 13 of Balukhali, located at Palongkhali union of Ukhiya upazila in Cox’s Bazar district.

Companies Built Bases On Rohingya Land After They Fled Myanmar Security Forces: UN Report

OCCRP
Organized Crime and Corrupttion Reporting Project
Reported by :Mariam Shenawy
September 29, 2025

 United Nations investigators say Myanmar’s military demolished Rohingya villages, hiring private companies to clear the land and build security infrastructure. 

Myanmar companies received state contracts to build police posts and other infrastructure on land seized from Rohingya Muslims, who fled their homes amid violent “clearance operations” by security forces, United Nations investigators said in a report today.

ADB provides $58.6m grant to support displaced people from Myanmar and host communities

BSS NEWS
29 Sep 2025

DHAKA, Sept 29, 2025 (BSS) - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of Bangladesh signed agreements today for a $58.6 million grant from the Asian Development Fund (ADF) and a $28.1 million concessional loan to provide basic infrastructure and critical services for displaced people from Myanmar (DPFM) and host communities in Bangladesh.

The ADF provides grants to ADB's poorest and most vulnerable developing member countries.

Maharashtra Begins Crackdown On Fake Birth Certificates Of Rohingya, Bangladeshi Migrants

ETV Bharat
ETV Bharat English Team
Published : September 17, 2025

Now, registrars will provide lists of delayed registrations to Tehsildars, who must verify records and cancel bogus certificates.

Representational image. (ANI)

 Mumbai: The Maharashtra government has launched a drive against racketeers who issue birth certificates to Bangladeshi and Rohingya infiltrators to make them eligible to enjoy rights as Indian citizens.

Bangladesh holds international conference on Rohingya: Here’s what to know

Al Jazeera 
Al Jazeera Staff
Published On 25 Aug 2025

From left, Jahena Begum, 50, and her three disabled children - Sumaiya Akter, 23; Md Ayas, 21; and Md Harez, 19 - live in a Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh [File: Valeria Mongelli/Al Jazeera]

Bangladesh is holding a two-day conference in Cox’s Bazar on the persecuted Rohingya community before a high-level conference on the Rohingya refugee crisis in September on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.

Rohingya crisis: Dhaka wants a permanent solution

The Daily Star
DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENT
Says Khalilur
Mon Aug 18, 2025

Bangladesh wants an urgent and permanent solution to the Rohingya crisis -- something that the government wants to highlight in the upcoming high-level conference on Rohingya in New York on September 30.

150,000 Rohingya flee to Bangladesh amid renewed Myanmar violence

United Nation 
11 July 2025 

© UNHCR/Susan Hopper Rohingya refugees at a camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.

Migrants and Refugees

Escalating conflict and targeted violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state have forced some 150,000 Rohingya refugees to flee to Bangladesh over the past 18 months – the largest exodus to the neighbouring country in years.

Rohingya refugees in peril in Bangladesh as support wanes: UN

AL Jazeera
11 Jul 2025

 The US and other Western countries have been reducing their funding, prioritising their defence spending instead.

Rohingya refugees gather to collect relief materials from a distribution point in the Kutupalong Refugee Camp in Ukhia in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar district on March 6, 2025. [AFP]

The plight of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh could rapidly deteriorate further unless more funding can be secured for critical assistance services, according to the United Nations refugee agency.

UN expert slams India's reported expulsion of Rohingya refugees as 'outrageous'

AA

GENEVA

Beyza Binnur Donmez 
15.05.2025

Tom Andrews, UN special rapporteur on situation of human rights in Myanmar, calls on India to ‘repudiate unconscionable acts against Rohingya refugees’

Rohingya people

A UN human rights expert on Thursday slammed an incident in which Indian authorities allegedly forced Rohingya refugees off a naval vessel into waters off Myanmar, announcing an inquiry into what he called "unconscionable, unacceptable acts."

Experts: Follow up steps should start on Rohingya repatriation after Myanmar’s assurance

Dhaka Tribune
Publish : 05 Apr 2025

Myanmar has informed Bangladesh that out of 800,000 Rohingyas in the country, 180,000 have been identified as eligible to return.

File image of Rohingya camp. Photo: Dhaka Tribune- BSS

Foreign relations experts on Saturday said follow up talks should start quickly on Rohingya repatriation as Myanmar has confirmed out of over 1.30 million of the ethnic minority Muslim people, who took makeshift refuge in Bangladesh were 180,000 are eligible to return.

17,000 MTs of U.S.-grown food aid arrives to support Rohingya

BBS NEWS
02 Apr 2025,

DHAKA, APRIL 2, 2025 – This week, 17,000 metric tons of vital food aid for Rohingya people arrived in Chattogram.

This food, produced by American farmers, will be delivered through the World Food Programme as part of the United States’ assistance to more than one million Rohingya in critical need, said an US Embassy press release here today.

နတ်မြစ်တွင် စက်လှေ ၁ စီး နစ်မြုပ်ပြီး ရိုဟင်ဂျာ ၁၀ ဦးနှင့် BGB တပ်ဖွဲ့ဝင် ၁ ဦး ပျောက်ဆုံးနေ

DVB
March 24, 2025 

Photo : RK News Desk၊ Courtesy

ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်ကနေ ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်နိုင်ငံ တက္ကနဖ်မြို့နယ်ဘက်ကို တိမ်းရှောင်လာကြတဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာ စက်လှေတစီးဟာ မတ် ၂၂ ရက် အစောပိုင်းက နတ်မြတ်အတွင်း နစ်မြုပ်ခဲ့ပြီး စက်လှေပေါ် ပါလာတဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာ ၁၀ ယောက်နဲ့ ကယ်ဆယ်ရေးပြုလုပ်နေတဲ့ ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ် နယ်ခြားစောင့် (BGB) တပ်ဖွဲ့ဝင်တယောက် ပျောက်ဆုံးတယ်လို့ ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်အခြေစိုက် သတင်းဌာနတွေမှာ ရေးကြပါတယ်။

4 bodies recovered after Rohingya boat capsizes off Teknaf, one BGB member missing

daily observer
Observer Online Report
Published : Sunday, 23 March, 2025  

Four bodies, including a child, were recovered from the Bay of Bengal in Teknaf after a boat carrying Rohingyas drowned while attempting to cross into Bangladesh from Myanmar.

There was also a Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) member on the boat.
 

Several people, including the BGB member, are still missing.

 

Dhaka for innovative solution for Rohingya crisis

BSS NEWS
23 Mar 2025, 

DHAKA, March 23, 2025 (BSS) – Foreign Secretary Md Jashim Uddin today expressed hope that the upcoming High-Level Conference under the aegis of the UN, to be held in New York, would offer innovative solutions over the Rohingya crisis.

He made the remarks as UNHCR Executive Committee Chair Ambassador Marcelo Vazquez-Bermudez met him at the foreign ministry here, said a ministry’s press release.

Top US general to be in Dhaka ahead of Arakan Army offensive in Rakhine State

NORTHEAST NEWS
byChandan Nandy
March 23, 2025

Deputy Commanding General of US Army Pacific, Lt Gen Joel Vowell will be in Dhaka for two days during which time he is expected to meet senior Bangladesh Army officers

The arrival of a top American general from the US Pacific Command in Dhaka on March 24 and his meetings with senior Bangladeshi Army officers is aimed at solidifying defensive measures along Bangladesh’s borders with Myanmar’s Rakhine State, where military moves against the military junta are expected to begin soon.

Lieutenant General Joel ‘JB’ Vowell, Deputy Commanding General for US Army Pacific (USARPAC)—located at Fort Shafter, Hawaii—will land at Dhaka’s Hazrat Shah Jalal International Airport around 10 p.m. tomorrow.

 

Armed Rohingya Group’s Leader Is Arrested in Bangladesh

The New York Times
By Hannah Beech
March 19, 2025 

 

Attacks by the group, the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army, were used as a pretext by the Myanmar military to launch a campaign of ethnic cleansing that set off a massive refugee crisis.

More than a million Rohingya are confined to a series of tent settlements in Bangladesh, like this one in Cox’s Bazar, seen on Saturday.Credit...Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters

The leader of an armed group representing a persecuted Muslim minority from Myanmar was arrested in a raid in neighboring Bangladesh this week and charged under an antiterrorism law.

Ataullah, an ethnic Rohingya and the commander of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army, or ARSA, was arrested on Monday, the Bangladeshi police said in a statement. He was captured in Narayanganj District, on the outskirts of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, according to a local police officer. Nine other suspected members of ARSA were also nabbed in raids.