The Rohingya are being forgotten at the UN

ARAB NEWS
Dr. Azeem Ibrahim
October 03, 20

The Rohingya are at risk of becoming a permanently forgotten people (File/AFP)

 

 The annual UN General Assembly has once again come and gone. World leaders delivered lofty speeches about war, climate change, and human rights. Yet among the most acute humanitarian tragedies of our time, the plight of the Rohingya, there was little more than symbolic mention. The genocide that forced nearly a million Rohingya into Bangladesh, and the continued persecution of those still in Myanmar, risks being relegated to the margins of global concern.

US, UK pledge $96m in new aid

daily sun
UNB, Dhaka
Publish: Thursday, 02 October, 2025 

The United States and the United Kingdom announced a fresh aid commitment of 96 million dollars in the first-ever high-level conference on the Rohingya and other Myanmar minorities at the UN headquarters on Tuesday, said Chief Adviser’s Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam.

 
The US announced a new donation of 60 million dollars and the UK 36 million dollars, he told UNB.

 

Rohingya Muslims plead for help at the UN to stop the killings in Myanmar

NEWS NATION
EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press 
Updated: Oct 1, 2025  

FILE – Rohingya refugees wait for food to be distributed during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan at their camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, March 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Shafiqur Rahman, File)

 

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Rohingya Muslims pleaded with the international community at the first United Nations high-level meeting on the plight of the ethnic minority to prevent the mass killings taking place in Myanmar and to help those in the persecuted group lead normal lives.

“This is a historic occasion for Myanmar, but this is long overdue,” Wai Wai Nu, the Rohingya founder and executive director of the Women’s Peace Network-Myanmar, told ministers and ambassadors from many of the U.N.’s 193-member nations in the General Assembly Hall.

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.

The United States expresses its support for Rohingya and other Myanmar minorities

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 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 

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at U.N. efforts to address the Rohingya crisis, an internet blackout in Afghanistan, and the collapse of one of Indonesia’s oldest Islamic schools.

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.

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.

Why Rohingya repatriation keeps failing and what must change

BLiTz
Suraiyya Aziz
Monday, September 22, 2025

For nearly eight years, the Rohingya crisis has remained one of the world’s most intractable humanitarian tragedies. Close to one million Rohingya refugees continue to live in limbo inside the crowded camps of Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district, unable to return to their ancestral homes in Myanmar’s Rakhine State. Forced out in 2017 during what the United States and the United Nations have both described as genocide, the Rohingya face dwindling humanitarian aid, deteriorating camp conditions, and the crushing despair of statelessness.

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.

Because no one asked: Archiving the Rohingya past

The Daily Star
By Naseef Faruque Amin
Sat Sep 6, 2025 

Visitors at Ek Khaale: Once Upon a Time, curated by Greg Constantine and organised by BRAC University’s Centre for Peace and Justice, engage with archival photographs that seek to reclaim the memory and dignity of the stateless Rohingyas. Courtesy: Greg Constantine 

It began with a question, the kind of question that arrives quietly, almost like a sigh. Greg Constantine, an American photojournalist and documentarian who has spent nearly two decades chronicling the plight of the Rohingya, sat inside a bamboo hut in Cox's Bazar, leaning towards the elderly men who were holding plastic bags filled with their pasts—brittle documents, photographs yellowed into sepia, certificates folded and refolded until the creases seemed older than the paper itself. He asked them, almost casually: Why have you never shown these to anyone else?

8 Years On: Accountability needed for Myanmar atrocities against Rohingya

A M N E S T Y
INTERNATIONAL 
25 August 2025

August 25, 2025, marks eight years since the Myanmar military and authorities launched widespread atrocities against the Rohingya population in Myanmar’s Rakhine State. 

Starting in August 2017, Myanmar security forces razed several hundred Rohingya villages and killed Rohingya women, men, and children throughout northern Rakhine State, forcing at least 700,000 to flee to Bangladesh. An Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar documented evidence of genocide and crimes against humanity.

Since these atrocities, no one has been held accountable in Myanmar for the crimes committed against the Rohingya.

Bangladesh exhausts resources for Rohingya refugees, chief adviser Yunus warns

REUTERS
By Ruma Paul
August 25, 2025

Muhammad Yunus, Chief Advisor of the Bangladesh's interim government, gives his speech during stakeholders dialogue on the Rohingya situation, in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, August 25, 2025. REUTERS/Sam Jahan 

COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh, Aug 25 (Reuters) - Bangladesh has no scope to allocate more resources for its 1.3 million Rohingya refugees, Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus said on Monday, urging the international community to find a sustainable solution to the crisis.
Children make up half the 1.3 million Rohingya refugees now living in Bangladesh, most of whom fled a brutal 2017 military crackdown in Buddhist-majority Myanmar that U.N. investigators called a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing".

The U.S. shouldn’t ignore the starving Rohingya of Myanmar

The Washington Post
20th July 2015

Myanmar’s junta has cut off food to Rohingya in squalid camps. Those in Bangladesh try to flee by boat. 

Rohingya refugees gather at roadside kitchen market at the refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, in March. (Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters)

In Myanmar’s troubled Rakhine state, a new horror is unfolding largely unobserved. The long-persecuted Rohingya have been caught in the crossfire of the country’s ongoing civil war, and now they are being deliberately starved.

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.

UN agency, Rohingya refugees allege Indian authorities cast dozens of them into the sea near Myanmar

AP
By SHEIKH SAALIQ and PIYUSH NAGPAL
May 17, 2025 

 The Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, in a statement on Thursday, said at least 40 Rohingya refugees were detained in New Delhi and cast into the sea by the Indian navy near the maritime border with Myanmar. The refugees — including children, women and older people — swam ashore, but their whereabouts in Myanmar remain unknown, the agency said.

A Rohingya refugee who has not been identified due to safety concerns, talks to The Associated Press in New Delhi, India, about how his family was deported to an island in Myanmar, Friday, May 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

The Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, in a statement on Thursday, said at least 40 Rohingya refugees were detained in New Delhi and cast into the sea by the Indian navy near the maritime border with Myanmar. The refugees — including children, women and older people — swam ashore, but their whereabouts in Myanmar remain unknown, the agency said.

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.

A Bleak Future for Rohingya Refugees

THE | DIPLOMAT
By Jannatul Naym Pieal
March 14, 2025


Despite the U.N. secretary-general’s visit to Bangladesh this week, the outlook for Rohingya refugees remains bleak.

Credit: Depositphotos

 

As conflict escalates in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, the plight of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh remains as dire as ever.

Recent developments – including the Arakan Army’s decision to ban the term “Rohingya” in areas under its control, dwindling food aid for refugees in Bangladesh, and shifting geopolitical stances – are shaping the future of one of the world’s most persecuted communities.

Secretary-General's press encounter on the Rohingya Refugees

United Nations
14 March 2025

This is my yearly Ramadan visit, this time in solidarity with the Rohingya refugees and with the Bangladeshi people [who] so generously host them.

And in this visit, I’ve already heard two clear messages. First, Rohingyas want to go back to Myanmar. It is essential that the international community does everything to make sure that peace is reestablished in Myanmar and that the rights of the Rohingyas are respected, that discrimination and persecution like the one we have witnessed in the past, will end.

UN to halve Rohingya food aid in Bangladesh amid funding crunch

Aljazeera
6 Mar 2025 

World Food Programme says ‘severe funding shortfalls’ to force cut in monthly food vouchers from $12.50 to $6 per person.

Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, mark the fifth anniversary of their flight from Myanmar during a military crackdown [File: Rafiqur Rahman/Reuters]

The United Nations has warned that it will be forced to halve rations for about one million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh from next month due to a lack of funds.

The World Food Programme (WFP) said in a letter on Wednesday that “severe funding shortfalls” are forcing a cut in monthly food vouchers from $12.50 to $6 per person.