A Rohingya woman advocating for her community at the international level

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By CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS
November 3, 2024

Noor Azizah is the co-founder of the Rohingya Maiyafuinor Collaborative Network, a women-led, Rohingya-led, and refugee-led organisation working on Rohingya human rights issues, SGBV, education, and translocal solidarity with a focus on women, peace, and security. (Credit: UNHCR)

Guest contributor

Noor Azizah

As I stand on the global stage, sharing the stories of my people, I often reflect on the journey that has brought me here. My name is Noor Azizah, and I am proud to be a Rohingya woman, an advocate for Rohingya human rights, and a member of several international platforms focused on addressing the pressing issues faced by displaced communities globally.

Rohingya woman shot dead in year's 24th killing in Bangladesh refugee camps

AA
DHAKA, Bangladesh
SM Najmus Sakib |25.04.2023

More than 150 murders reported in Rohingya camps in Bangladesh since 2017

A Rohingya woman was shot dead at a refugee camp in Bangladesh’s southeastern Cox’s Bazar district, the 24th such killing this year.

Two more women – a Rohingya community leader named Monira Begum and her daughter Noor Fatema – were wounded in the shooting at the Nayapara refugee camp, officials said.

A group of some 15 assailants led by a Rohingya man targeted Monira’s house, according to Mohammad Jamal Pasha, a police official in Cox’s Bazar.

Rohingya woman recounts abuse by Myanmar junta in court

DAILY SABAH
ANADOLU AGENCY
DHAKA ASIA PACIFIC
AUG 19, 2021

A young Rohingya refugee boy stands outside a tent at a refugee camp alongside the banks of the Yamuna River in the southeastern borders of New Delhi, India, July 1, 2021. (AP Photo)

Testifying before a court in Argentina a Rohingya woman described the Myanmar military's genocide, painting a startling picture of the abuse suffered in Rakhine state, a rights body for the minority confirmed Wednesday.

The eyewitness, whose identity has been withheld for security reasons, is one of six Rohingya women treated inhumanely by the Myanmar military in their home country and are now living in cramped Bangladeshi camps. She virtually narrated her ordeal on Tuesday at the Federal Criminal Appeals Court in Buenos Aires, the Argentinian capital.

The Rohingya genocide has been separated into two phases, the first of which was a military campaign from October 2016 to January 2017, and the second of which has been ongoing since August 2017.

Bodies of Rohingya woman, two children recovered from Naf River

Dhaka Tribune
Abdul Aziz, Cox's Bazar
June 12th, 2021

File photo: Naf River flows along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border region in Teknaf, Cox's Bazar Dhaka Tribune

They drowned while crossing the river

Police have recovered the bodies of a Rohingya woman and two children from the Naf River from Teknaf of Cox’s Bazar on Saturday.

The bodies were found floating on the river at Teknaf upazila’s Whykong union around 2pm.

Police believe all three bodies were Rohingyas who presumably died while trying to swim across the river.

70-year-old detained Rohingya woman dies in custody in IIOJK

Kasmir Media Service

June 9, 2021

Jammu, June 09 (KMS): In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, a 70-year-old Rohingya woman detained in Hiranagar jail in Jammu passed away at a hospital, authorities said.

The deceased woman has been identified as Noor Aisha who was in jail since early March. A police official said, Aisha was a patient of Asthma. As of now the body is in hospital in the custody of jail authorities, he said. “I don’t know about the plans of last rites and how the body will be disposed of.”

Rohingya Woman Files First Complaint in Myanmar HRC After 'Genocide'

Reuters

12/Dec/2020

 

The woman has sought $ 2 million in compensation for the death of her husband, who was killed by government soldiers during a 2017 military crackdown in western Myanmar. 

File Photo: Rohingya refugees stretch their hands to receive aid distributed by local organisations at Balukhali makeshift refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, September 14, 2017. Photo: Reuters/Danish Siddiqui/File Photo

A Rohingya woman is seeking $2 million in compensation for the death of her husband, who was killed by government soldiers during a 2017 military crackdown in western Myanmar, lawyers said.

Legal Action Worldwide (LAW) and an international law firm, McDermott Will & Emery, said they filed a complaint on Thursday with Myanmar’s human rights commission on behalf of Setara Begum, whose husband Shoket Ullah was killed at Inn Din village in Rakhine state.

Her claim is the first complaint related to the Rohingya known to have been filed through Myanmar’s human rights commission, according to LAW, a legal non-profit organisation based in Geneva.