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

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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.

ASEAN must act now to ease Rohingya crisis

daily observer 
Saturday, 6 September, 2025 

The Asian Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) has once again sounded the alarm on the escalating crisis facing Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.

At a press briefing held at the Dhaka Reporters Unity, following a meeting with Nobel laureate Dr. Muhammad Yunus, APHR called on ASEAN to immediately establish a dedicated humanitarian fund to address the dire needs of over 1.3 million refugees stranded in Cox's Bazar.

Stuck in grim camps, Rohingya hope Bangladesh can tackle crisis

prothomalo
AFP Dhaka
Published: 27 Aug 2025

Bangladesh is this week holding talks aimed at addressing the plight of Rohingya refugees, even as fresh arrivals cross over from war-ravaged Myanmar and shrinking aid flows deepen the crisis. 

An aerial view shows Rohingya refugees’ Balukhali camp in Ukhia on 26 August 2025. “Bangladesh now hosts 1.3 million forcibly displaced Rohingya from Myanmar,” Yunus told the aid conference in Cox’s Bazar, calling it the “largest refugee camp in the world”AFP

The rain was relentless the night Mohammad Kaisar fled for his life from his home in Myanmar’s Maungdaw township.

CA Yunus joins 'Stakeholders’ Dialogue' on Rohingya crisis in Cox’s Bazar

Dhaka Tribune
Abdul Aziz
Publish : 25 Aug 2025, 

Chief Adviser Dr Muhammad Yunus arrives at Cox’s Bazar Airport to attend the international conference on the Rohingya crisis. Photo: Dhaka Tribune

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus will speak at the 'Stakeholders’ Dialogue' on the Rohingya situation in the beach town of Cox’s Bazar on Monday morning.

Bangladesh seeks Malaysia's role to address Rohingya crisis: CA

BSS
Update : 18 Aug 2025,

Chief Adviser Professor Dr Muhammad Yunus -File Photo

DHAKA, Aug 17, 2025 (BSS) - Chief Adviser Professor Dr Muhammad Yunus said Bangladesh is seeking Malaysia's influence, particularly its role as ASEAN Chair, to rally international efforts to address the prolonged Rohingya refugee crisis in the country.

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.

Yunus seeks Malaysia’s clout for resolving Rohingya crisis

The Daily Star
Diplomacy
Bernama, Kuala Lumpur
Sun Aug 17, 2025 

Bangladesh hopes to leverage Malaysia's influence as Asean chair to bolster international efforts in resolving the long-standing Rohingya refugee crisis, Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus said in an exclusive interview with Malaysian state media Bernama.

Why the 2025 UN Conference Must Deliver on the Rohingya Crisis

THE | DIPLOMAT 
By Zulficar Niaz Tushar
July 02, 2025

Seven years on, the refugee camps are still full. Rohingya futures are still frozen. And the promises from the international community remain, for the most part, unfulfilled.

 

This September, the United Nations will host a long-awaited High-Level Conference on the Situation of Rohingya Muslims and Other Minorities in Myanmar. Set to take place in New York, it’s a moment that has been years in the making — proposed by Bangladesh’s chief adviser, Professor Muhammad Yunus, during the 79th U.N. General Assembly and now backed by 106 countries across continents. But behind the diplomacy and formality lies something far more urgent: the fate of over a million people who have been living in limbo for far too long.

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.

UN SG reaffirms continued support to Rohingya crisis in Bangladesh

BSS NEWS
BSS
08 Feb 2025,

High Representative of Bangladesh's Chief Adviser on Rohingya Issue and Priority Matters Dr. Khalilur Rahman met UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Friday. Photo: PID

DHAKA, Feb 8, 2025 (BSS) - United Nation (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres has reiterated the UN's continued commitment to a durable solution to the Rohingya crisis and assured Bangladesh of ensuring funding for the issue.

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.

Dhaka’s repeated calls for Rohingyas’ return fall on deaf ears

daily observer
Sunday, 22 December, 2024

Dhaka has once again called for the safe and immediate repatriation of Rohingyas from Bangladesh, pointing to the fact that there can't be lasting peace and stability in Myanmar without resolving the Rohingya crisis.

This was pointed out by Bangladesh Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain on Friday at a bilateral meeting with Thai Foreign Minister Maris Sangiampongsa on the sideline of the Informal Consultation on Myanmar in Bangkok. The meeting was also attended by high-level representatives from China, India, Lao PDR and Myanmar.

No lasting peace in Myanmar without resolving Rohingya crisis: Touhid

BSS NEWS
20 Dec 2024, 

File Photo

DHAKA, Dec 20, 2024 (BSS) – Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain today said that there can be no lasting peace and stability in Myanmar without resolving the Rohingya issue.

Resolving the Rohingya crisis needs a three-pronged diplomatic strategy

THE BUSINESS STANDARD
Dr Mohammad Tarikul Islam
11 October, 2024,

Bangladesh now needs to take proactive and well-coordinated action to stop the Rohingya migration and move towards the restoration of their rights

Rohingya refugees' fear of violence upon their return caused previous attempts at repatriation in 2018 and 2019 to fail. Photo: Bloomberg

Because of the presence of around one million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, concerns have been raised about the safety of the native people. In spite of diplomatic efforts, Myanmar, which has been ruled by a military junta since 2021, has refused to allow its Rohingya citizens to return home, infuriating Bangladesh and jeopardising regional stability. 

Left Behind: The Rohingya Crisis and the World’s Failure to Act

Georgetown Security Studies Review
16 November 2024

Image Credit: Asnthantan

The Rohingya, Myanmar’s Muslim minority, face what the United Nations has termed a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing.” Despite this strong condemnation, international efforts have failed to prevent or mitigate the ongoing atrocities. The plight of the Rohingya exposes not only Myanmar’s entrenched ethnic and religious conflicts but also highlights significant gaps in global accountability mechanisms. The People’s Republic of China (PRC), Myanmar’s influential northern neighbor and primary economic partner, has shielded Myanmar from international pressure through its role on the United Nations Security Council, complicating efforts to address the crisis. As Myanmar’s military-backed government continues policies of forced displacement, denial of citizenship, and organized violence against the Rohingya, the crisis signals an international community unable—or unwilling—to intervene against genocide within sovereign borders.

MALAYSIA URGED TO LEAD ASEAN AGAINST MYANMAR'S HUMANITARIAN CRISIS, ROHINGYA PERSECUTION

BERNEMA
By Wan Muhammad Aslah Wan Razali
18/07/2024

KUALA LUMPUR, July 18 (Bernama) -- As chair of the upcoming ASEAN Summit in 2025, Malaysia is being called upon to take a leading role in addressing the humanitarian crisis and safeguarding the rights and lives of the Rohingya people in Myanmar.

The only one solution to the Rohingya crisis

Dhaka Tribune
Tribune Editorial
Publish : 22 Jun 2024,

The ethnic cleansing of Myanmar’s Rohingya population has been one of the most prolonged humanitarian crises in human history, one which has led to the exodus of more than a million of the Muslim minority to seek refuge in Bangladesh where they are currently subsisting in various camps.

US to remain Bangladesh’s partner in Rohingya crisis response: Envoy

NEWAGE
United News of Bangladesh .
Dhaka
12 June, 2024, 

Regional refugee coordinator at the US embassy Mackenzie Rowe addresses a small group briefing at the American Centre on Wednesday. | UNB photo

The United States said that it would continue to advocate with countries in the region, and at the United Nations, for a peaceful resolution of the conflict in Myanmar so that the Rohingyas and others displaced by the violence could safely return home.

FM calls for coordinated efforts to resolve Rohingya crisis

The Business Standard
BSS
01 June, 2024

Foreign Minister Hasan Mahmud speaks at the UN Headquarters in New York on Friday. Photo: PID 

 

Foreign Minister Hasan Mahmud has called for addressing the ongoing conflict in Rakhine state and taking coordinated international action to repatriate Rohingyas to Myanmar from Bangladesh.

 

Bangladesh calls for UN push to solve Rohingya crisis amid efforts by Myanmar to stem criticism

AA
SM Najmus Sakib
DHAKA, Bangladesh
01.06.2024  

In meetings with UN officials, Bangladesh alleges Myanmar is using its internal conflict as pretext to delay repatriation

Bangladesh’s top diplomat has called for coordinated efforts by UN agencies to resolve the longstanding Rohingya crisis, accusing neighboring Myanmar of using its internal conflict as a pretext to delay repatriation of the persecuted Muslim group.