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.

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.

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.

အာရ်ကန်ရိုဟင်ဂျာအမျိုးသားကောင်စီ (ARNC) ကို ဖွဲ့စည်းကြောင်း ထုတ်ပြန်

မဇ္စျိမ
July 15, 2025 

ပါခွီး

(မဇ္ဈိမ) ။ ။ အာရ်ကန်ပြည်တွင် ရိုဟင်ဂျာလူမျိုးများသည် ဌာနေတိုင်းရင်းသားဖြစ်မှု ၊ မြန်မာ နိုင်ငံသားအဖြစ်အသိ အမှတ်ပြုခံရမှုကို ပြန်လည်ရယူရန်နှင့် ကာကွယ်ရန်အတွက် အာရ်ကန် ရိုဟင်ဂျာအမျိုးသားကောင်စီ (ARNC) ကို ဖွဲ့စည်းလိုက်ကြောင်း ဇူလိုင်လ ၁၃ ရက်နေ့တွင် ထုတ်ပြန်လာသည်။