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.