Role of the UN in relation to human rights in Myanmar

ICJ

March 9, 2020

The ICJ today urged the UN to more effectively protect and promote human rights in Myanmar, and the Human Rights Council to monitor implementation of the Rosenthal Inquiry recommendations to this end.

The statement, delivered in a discussion of the Secretary-General’s oral update on the involvement of the United Nations in Myanmar, read as follows:

“The ICJ welcomes the report of Mr. Gert Rosenthal entitled, ‘A Brief and Independent Inquiry into the Involvement of the United Nations in Myanmar from 2010 to 2018.’

UN appeals for $877m for Rohingya refugee response in Bangladesh

bdnews24.com
News Desk,
 bdnews24.com
 03 Mar 2020

Rohingya refugee children fly improvised kites at the Kutupalong refugee camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh Dec 10, 2017. REUTERS/FILE  

United Nations agencies and NGO partners have appealed for $877m for about 855,000 Rohingya refugees from Myanmar and 444,000 vulnerable Bangladeshis.

The 2020 Joint Response Plan, or JRP, for the Rohingya humanitarian crisis was launched on Tuesday, the UNHCR said in a statement on Tuesday.

OIC contact group discusses Rohingya protection with UN chief

ARAB NEWS
March 01, 2020

• Saudi envoy to UN stresses need to exert additional international efforts to prevent Myanmar from continuing violations
• UN chief Guterres welcomed the ICJ decision on Rohingyas as a historical moment that the government of Myanmar should respect

NEW YORK: The contact group of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), led by Saudi Arabia, met with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at his office at the UN’s New York headquarters to discuss the latest developments related to the Muslim Rohingya ethnic minority community in Myanmar.

The group included representatives from Turkey, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Indonesia and the OIC Observer Mission to the UN.

Maldives gets top lawyer to fight for Rohingya at UN court

Bangkok Post
2020.02.26

Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney will represent the Maldives at the UN's highest court in the Rohingya case.

COLOMBO: The luxury tourist destination of the Maldives has hired prominent human rights lawyer Amal Clooney to represent it at the UN's highest court in seeking justice for Myanmar's persecuted Rohingya Muslims.

The Maldivian government said Wednesday it will formally join the mainly Muslim African state of The Gambia in challenging Myanmar's 2017 military crackdown that sent around 740,000 Rohingya fleeing into neighbouring Bangladesh.

Maldives hires Amal Clooney to represent Rohingya at UN

AA

Riyaz ul Khaliq 

ANKARA

26.02.2020 

Archipelago nation to intervene in Gambian case against Myanmar at International Court of Justice 

Maldives has hired the services of prominent human rights lawyer Amal Clooney to represent the persecuted Rohingya at the UN court.

“I am delighted to have been asked to represent the Maldives before the International Court of Justice. Accountability for genocide in Myanmar is long overdue and I look forward to working on this important effort to seek judicial remedies for Rohingya survivors,” the British-Lebanese lawyer said.

Repatriation should get highest priority: speakers

The Daily Star
February 24, 2020
Staff Correspondent

UN Joint Response Plan for Rohingyas

Rohingya repatriation should be the highest priority in the United Nations' Joint Response Plan (JRP) for support of Rohingya people, speakers said at a press conference yesterday.

Demanding an amendment of the JRP in this regard, they said the plan should be a live document, so that it can be updated anytime necessary.

They also demanded the JRP should include transparency and accountability in providing aid to the Rohingya and recognise Bangladesh government's contributions in supporting the forcefully displaced Myanmar nationals.

What Does the ICJ Initial Ruling In point of fact Imply for the Rohingya? – The Diplomat

Daily Research Plot

February 8, 2020

Mike Butcher 

On January 23, the World Courtroom of Justice (ICJ) primarily based in The Hague ordered Myanmar to take rapid measures to stop the genocide of the stateless Rohingya Muslim minority, primarily based in northern Rakhine state. The court docket indicated 4 explicit “provisional measures” on this regard, as asked by means of The Gambia in its November 11, 2019, utility to the ICJ in quest of complaints in opposition to Myanmar for violating the 1961 Genocide Conference.

The Gambia, a small West African nation, has accused Myanmar of wearing out genocidal violence in opposition to the Rohingya based on two separate waves of assaults by means of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Military (ARSA) on border outposts in northern Rakhine state in October 2016 and August 2017. As an immediate results of the violent army “clearance operations” that adopted the second one assault, with reference to 800,000 Rohingya fled to neighboring Bangladesh, the place they have got been lodged in huge refugee camps since then.

UN fails to take action on order against Myanmar on Rohingya

Aljazeera
2020.02.04

Myanmar's allies China and Vietnam block vote on a joint statement forcing EU member states to make separate report.

More than 700,000 Rohingya fled to Bangladesh after Myanmar security forces launched a crackdown on the Muslim minority in August 2017 [File: Abir Abdullah/EPA]

The UN Security Council on Tuesday discussed the International Court of Justice's order that Myanmar do all it can to prevent genocide against the Rohingya Muslims, but failed to agree on a statement.

Europeans demand Rohingya justice at UN

AA
James Reinl
04.02.2020
 
Diplomats bash Myanmar’s human rights record after Security Council closed-door meeting

UNITED NATIONS 

Myanmar must start prosecuting those responsible for atrocities against its mostly-Muslim Rohingya minority and uphold decisions by international judges, European diplomats said Tuesday in New York.

Speaking with reporters after a closed-door meeting of the UN Security Council, Estonia’s Ambassador Sven Jurgenson, said last month’s ruling of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague must be followed.

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.