UN Special Rapporteur Offers Assistance to Indian Supreme Court in Case of Rohingya Deportation

IPS Inter Press Service
By Samira Sadeque 

The United Nations on Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance has recently offered her assistance to the Indian Supreme Court in a long hearing about India deporting Rohingya refugees to Myanmar. Pictured here are Rohingya refugee women in Jammu, India. Credit: Stella Paul/IPS

UNITED NATIONS, Jan 20 2020 (IPS) - University of California professor E. Tendayi Achiume, who is a United Nations Special Rapporteur, has recently offered her assistance to the Indian Supreme Court in a long hearing about India deporting Rohingya refugees to Myanmar.

Refer Myanmar to ICC for Rakhine situation

theindepedent
4 July, 2019
UNB, Dhaka 

UN expert Yanghee Lee reiterates call

UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar Yanghee Lee yesterday repeated her call that the situation in Rakhine should be referred to the International Criminal Court. She implored the international community to maintain pressure on Myanmar amid a deterioration of human rights in the country.

Interview: ‘I Really Think That Myanmar is Going Down a Dark Path Now’

RFA
2019-06-27

Yanghee Lee, the UN’s special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, discusses the Myanmar military and human rights in the Southeast Asian nation during a video call with RFA, June 26, 2019.

Yanghee Lee, the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, has been an outspoken critic of Myanmar’s powerful military and its brutal crackdowns on Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state in 2016 and 2017. She has called for the prosecution of those responsible for committing suspected acts of genocide against the Rohingya, and blasted the armed forces for their treatment of other ethnic minorities in conflict zones in Kachin and northern Shan states. In late 2017, the Myanmar government barred Lee from visiting the country to assess the rights situation after it said a previous mission report she issued was biased and unfair.