UN, humanitarian bodies laud Bangladesh’s decision

The Daily Star 
January 30, 2020
Diplomatic Correspondent

Education for Rohingya Children

The UN and global humanitarian community have lauded Bangladesh’s decision to expand the access to formal education for Rohingya children living in refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar.

The decision was taken on Monday at the meeting of the National Task Force on Rohignya crisis, chaired by Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen at the foreign ministry.

In line with the decision, the education sector for the humanitarian response in Cox’s Bazar now plans to pilot the introduction of the Myanmar curriculum in the Rohingya refugee camps starting in April. Initially, it targets 10,000 Rohingya students from sixth to ninth grade.

United Nations rules Myanmar must protect Rohingya Muslims

CNN
25.01.2020

Simon Adams, Executive Director for the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, joins CNN International to discuss the UN's historic court ruling that Myanmar must prevent genocideSource: CNN.

Link:https://edition.cnn.com/videos/tv/2020/01/25/exp-simon-adams-clip.cnn

U.N.'s Top Court Orders Myanmar to Take All Measures to Prevent Genocide Against Rohingya

TIME
 Laignee Barron
Updated: January 23, 2020

The president of the International Court of Justice, Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf (C) speaks during the ruling of the International Court of Justice in The Hague, on January 23, 2020 in the lawsuit filed by The Gambia against Myanmar in which Myanmar is accused of genocide against Rohingya Muslims.
Robin VAN LONKHUIJSEN / ANP / AFP) / Netherlands OUT ROBIN VAN LONKHUIJSEN/ANP/AFP via Getty Images

In a landmark verdict, the United Nation’s highest court ruled Thursday that it has the authority to consider a genocide case against Myanmar and ordered the country to prevent genocide from being committed against its Rohingya Muslim minority.

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.

UN Rohingya Genocide Case Court Ruling Set for Next Week

THE I DIPLOMAT

By Mike Corder 

January 17, 2020


The United Nations’ top court announced Wednesday that it will issue a decision next week on a request to order Myanmar to halt what has been cast as a genocidal campaign against the southeast Asian country’s Rohingya Muslim minority.

The West African nation of Gambia, on behalf of a large organization of Islamic nations, asked the International Court of Justice last month to take “all measures within its power to prevent all acts that amount to or contribute to the crime of genocide.”

Zimbabwe Among 9 Countries Who Voted Against UN’s Resolution To Protect Rohingya Muslims From Myanmar Army’s Atrocities, See How Others Voted

Pindula News
January 4, 2020

Zimbabwe is among nine countries who voted against the United Nations General Assembly’s Resolution IV on the Situation of human rights of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar.

Netherlands Provides $4.3Mln For Rohingya Refugees In Bangladesh - UN Food Agency

UrduPoint
Umer Jamshaid 
18th November 2019

The World Food Program (WFP) said in a press release on Monday that the Netherlands has provided $4.3 million in support of the organization's relief efforts for the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh

 

UNITED NATIONS (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 18th November, 2019) The World Food Program (WFP) said in a press release on Monday that the Netherlands has provided $4.3 million in support of the organization's relief efforts for the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.

"The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) welcomes an additional contribution of [$4.3 million] from the Kingdom of the Netherlands to support the organization's work for the Rohingya refugees and host communities in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh," the release said.

Resolution on Rohingya rights situation adopted at UN

The Daily Star
November 16, 2019
Unb, Dhaka

A resolution on the situation of human rights of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar has been adopted at the third committee of the 74th UN General Assembly (UNGA) in New York.

The resolution, placed by the United Arab Emirates and Finland on behalf of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the European Union (EU), received 140 votes in its favour and nine votes against it with 32 countries taking no side.

The adopted resolution will be placed at the General Assembly plenary in the next month, said Permanent Mission of Bangladesh to the United Nations yesterday.

႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာအေရး အာဆီယံလုပ္ေဆာင္ခ်က္ ကုလေထာက္ခံ

VOA
04 ႏိုဝင္ဘာ၊ 2019
မသိဂႌထုိက္

အာဆီယံ ထိပ္သီးအစည္းအေဝးတြင္ မိန္႔ခြန္းေျပာၾကားေနသည့္ ကုုလသမဂၢ အတြင္းေရးမွဴးခ်ဳပ္ Antonio Guterres. (ႏုိဝင္ဘာ ၃၊ ၂၀၁၉)

ရခုိင္ျပည္နယ္ျပႆနာ ေျဖရွင္းေရးအတြက္ အေရွ႕ေတာင္အာရွႏုိင္ငံမ်ားအသင္း အာဆီယံဘက္က အထူး လုပ္ငန္းတခု ဖြဲ႔စည္းဖို႔ ရွိေနေၾကာင္း ကုလသမဂၢ အတြင္းေရးမွဴးခ်ဳပ္ Antonio Guterres က ေျပာဆိုလုိက္ပါ တယ္။ အာဆီယံရဲ႕ ပိုၿပီး ေဆာင္ရြက္လာတဲ့အေပၚမွာ ကုလသမဂၢဘက္က အျပည့္အ၀ ေထာက္ခံေၾကာင္းနဲ႔ ျပႆနာရဲ႕ အေျခခံ အေၾကာင္းရင္းေတြကို ေျဖရွင္းဖို႔က ျမန္မာရဲ႕တာ၀န္ ျဖစ္တယ္လို႔လည္း ကုလသမဂၢ အတြင္းေရးမွဴးခ်ဳပ္က ေထာက္ျပပါတယ္။ ဒီအေပၚ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ဘက္ကလည္း တုံ႔ျပန္သြား ပါ တယ္။ အျပည့္အစုံကုိ မသိဂႌထုိက္က စုစည္းတင္ျပထားပါတယ္။

UN chief urges Myanmar to ensure 'safe' return of Rohingya

FRANCH24
03/11/2019
Bangkok (AFP)

The UN chief on Sunday urged Myanmar to ensure the "safe" return of Rohingya refugees driven out by army operations, a plea made in front of Aung San Suu Kyi more than two years since her country cracked down on the Muslim minority.

Speaking at a summit of Southeast Asian leaders in Bangkok -- with Myanmar's de facto head Suu Kyi in the room -- Antonio Guterres said he remains "deeply concerned" about the plight of the Rohingya.

UN chief 'deeply concerned' over Rohingya crisis

Aljazeera
3rd November 2019

Guterres addresses ASEAN summit, where leaders try to salvage progress towards what could be world's biggest trade bloc.

 Myanmar is responsible to 'ensure a conducive environment for the safe, voluntary, dignified and sustainable repatriation of refugees', Guterres said [Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters]

United Nations chief Antonio Guterres has expressed "deep" concern over the plight of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees, urging Myanmar to assume responsibility by dealing with the "root causes" of their flight and work towards their safe repatriation.

A brutal army campaign in August 2017 forced more than 740,000 members of the mostly-Muslim minority to flee Myanmar's Rakhine state, most seeking refuge in overcrowded camps across the border in Bangladesh. During its crackdown, which was launched in response to attacks by an armed group, the military carried out mass killings and gang rapes with "genocidal intent", according to United Nations-mandated investigators.

U.N. mission head sees risk of Rohingya genocide recurring in Myanmar

the japan times 
Oct 23, 2019 
AP

Rohingya refugees come out of their homes after the visit of Indonesian President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo at the Jamtoli refugee camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, last year. Authorities in Bangladesh said Tuesday they want to start relocating thousands of Rohingya refugees to a Bay of Bengal island soon from crammed camps near the border with Myanmar, from where they fled. | AP

UNITED NATIONS – The head of a U.N. fact-finding mission on Myanmar warned Tuesday that “there is a serious risk of genocide recurring” against the estimated 600,000 members of the Rohingya Muslim minority still living in the country.

စစ်တပ်အစား အရပ်ဘက်စီးပွားရေးတွေနဲ့ပဲ ပေါင်းလုပ်ဖို့ FFM ဥက္ကဋ္ဌ တောင်းဆို

VOA
ဗွီအိုအေ (မြန်မာဌာန)
23 အောက်တိုဘာ၊ 2019
အင်ကြင်းနိုင်

FFM မြန်မာနိုင်ငံဆိုင်ရာ ကုလသမဂ္ဂ အချက်အလက် ရှာဖွေရေးမစ်ရှင် ဥက္ကဌ Marzuki Darusman

မြန်မာနိုင်ငံမှာ ရက်စက်ကြမ်းကြုတ်မှုတွေ ကျူးလွန်နေတဲ့ တပ်မတော်နဲ့ ဆက်စပ်နေတဲ့ စီးပွားရေး လုပ်ငန်း တွေကို ပိတ်ဆို့အရေးယူပြီး အရပ်ဖက် စီးပွားရေးလုပ်ငန်းတွေနဲ့သာ ပူးပေါင်းဆောင်ရွက်ဖို့ FFM မြန်မာနိုင် ငံဆိုင်ရာ အချက်အလက်ရှာဖွေရေးမစ်ရှင် ဥက္ကဋ္ဌက ကုလသမဂ္ဂအဖွဲ့ဝင်နိုင်ငံတွေကို တောင်းဆိုလိုက် ပါ တယ်။ အင်္ဂါနေ့က နယူးရောက် ကုလသမဂ္ဂဌာနချုပ်မှာကျင်းပတဲ့ ကုလသမဂ္ဂအထွေထွေညီလာခံ တတိယ ကော်မတီ အစည်းအဝေးမှာ FFM ရဲ့ နောက်ဆုံး မြန်မာနိုင်ငံဆိုင်ရာ အစီရင်ခံစာကို တင်သွင်းချိန်မှာ သူက အဲဒီလို ပြောသွားတာပါ။ မအင်ကြင်းနိုင်က အပြည့်အစုံကို တင်ပြမှာပါ။

မြန်မာ့လူ့အခွင့်အရေး ကုလအထွေထွေညီလာခံ တတိယ ကော်မတီမှာ အပြန်အလှန်ပြောဆို

VOA
ဗွီအိုအေ (မြန်မာဌာန)
23 အောက်တိုဘာ၊ 2019
မသိင်္ဂီထိုက်

ရိုဟင်ဂျာတွေ အပေါ် လူ့အခွင့်အရေး ကျူးလွန် ချိုးဖောက်မှုတွေ အတွက် နိုင်ငံတကာ ရာဇဝတ် ပြစ်မှုဆိုင် ရာ ခုံရုံး ဒါမှမဟုတ်လည်း နိုင်ငံတကာ ခုံရုံးတခု ဖွဲ့စည်းကြဖို့ မြန်မာဆိုင်ရာ ကုလသမဂ္ဂ လူ့အခွင့်အရေး အ ထူး ကိုယ်စားလှယ် ယန်ဟီးလီက ကုလသမဂ္ဂ အထွေထွေ ညီလာခံ တတိယ ကော်မတီမှာ တင်သွင်းသွား ပါတယ်။

UN, NGOs accused of bungling effort to educate Rohingya children

Aljazeera
by Clare Hammond & Victoria Milko
October 8th 2019.

Questions raised over efforts to give Rohingya children and youth formal education under Myanmar curriculum.

According to UNICEF about 461,000 of the 910,000 refugees in Cox's Bazar are children [File: Abir Abdullah/EPA] 

On May 13, a group of Rohingya refugee education leaders had the rare chance to ask some of the questions that had been weighing on their minds for more than two years.

For the first time, they were meeting representatives from the United Nations and international NGOs tasked with providing education to about half a million Rohingya refugee children living in camps in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.

Minutes of the meeting obtained by Al Jazeera, show how the community leaders questioned the officials about the slow effort to give refugees formal education, the absence of a Myanmar curriculum in the camps, and the lack of consultation with the community.

U.N. Human Rights Commissioner meets Rohingya refugees in Malaysia

WION
Reuters ,Kuala Lumpur
Oct 05, 2019,

Bachelet visiting Rohingya education centre. Photograph:( Reuters )

The United Nations human rights chief Michelle Bachelet on Friday paid a visit to a school for Rohingya refugees children in Kuala Lumpur during a visit to Malaysia.

The visit was the first by a current U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights to Malaysia.

Tripartite repatriation talks scheduled at UN

MYANMAR TIMES

Nyan Lynn Aung  

23 Sep 2019

Myanmar, Bangladesh and China will meet to discuss the repatriation of Muslim refugees from Bangladesh on Monday on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The ministry said the meeting will focus on resolving issues that hamper the repatriation of the more than 700,000 Muslim refugees who have fled from northern Rakhine State to Bangladesh since August 2017.  

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Monsoon destroys Rohingya shelters, sparking record UN emergency food agency response in Bangladesh

UN News

13 September 2019

Humanitarian Aid

 

WFP/Nihab Rahman
The UN World Food Programme launched its biggest rapid food response following heavy rains and flash flooding in the Cox’s Bazar refugee camps and host communities. 

 

Unusually heavy monsoon rains have inundated shelters in refugee camps in southern Bangladesh creating “havoc”, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday, as it launched its biggest emergency response of the year for displaced Rohingya families. 

Bangladesh to UN: 'Support Rohingya island relocation or leave the country'

DW

In an interview with DW, Bangladesh's Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen expressed disappointment over "inadequate" international pressure on Myanmar to take back the Rohingya refugees currently camped in Cox's Bazar.