SoCal Rabbi Advocates for Human Rights in Washington, D.C.

JEWISH JOURNAL

BY Erin Ben-Moche | Mar 15, 2019

Rabbi Zari Sussman of Temple Sholom in Ontario, Calif. was among 28 American rabbis and social justice advocates who traveled to Washington, D.C., this week urging officials to take action on human rights issues.

US welcomes govt promises of Rohingyas' voluntary relocation to Bhashan Char

DhakaTribune
 Published at March 13th, 2019

 Before Bangladesh, no other country came to their aid MAHMUD HOSSAIN OPU

The government plans to relocate up to 100,000 Rohingyas to Bhashan Char, as early as mid-April

US Ambassador to Bangladesh Earl R Miller has welcomed the government’s assurances that any relocation of Rohingyas to Bhashan Char Island, will be completely voluntary, based on informed consent.

US State Department’s Women of Courage nods shines spotlight on Myanmar

Coconuts Yangoon

By Coconuts Yangon Mar. 7, 2019

 

First Lady Melania Drumpf delivers remarks at the 2017 Secretary of State’s International Women of Courage Award Ceremony at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on March 29, 2017. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]

A Myanmar-born Rohingya activist and an advocate for the country’s ethnic Karen minority are among those being honored today at the US State Department’s 13th Annual International Women of Courage (IWOC) Awards in Washington.

Bangladesh Urges U.S. to Help Repatriate Rohingya Refugees

The Irrawaddy

By Muktadir Rashid 4 March 2019

Bangladesh Disaster Management and Relief Minister Enamur Rahman speaks to U.S. Ambassador to Bangladesh Earl Miller in Dhaka on Sunday. / U.S. Embassy in Dhaka

DHAKA — Bangladesh Disaster Management and Relief Minister Enamur Rahman on Sunday said he asked the U.S. to help find a way to repatriate the more than 1 million Rohingya refugees from Myanmar sheltering in the country’s Cox’s Bazar District.

$45m more US aid for Rohingyas

The Daily Star

Monday, "March 4, 2019"

Rohingya refugees.Reuters file photo

 

The US is giving $45.5 million more aid for the Rohingyas who fled to Bangladesh after facing a brutal military crackdown in Myanmar's Rakhine in August 2017.

“Today the United States is contributing $45.5 million to the UN World Food Programme in support of the Rohingya refugee crisis,” Earl Robert Miller, US ambassador to Bangladesh, announced yesterday as he called on all nations with the means to contribute to this global humanitarian crisis.

US contributes $105m to Rohingya fund

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Prothom Alo English Desk | Update: 18:38, Mar 03, 2019

The United States has contributed $45.5 million to the UN World Food Program in support of the Rohingya crisis, reports UNB.

This is in addition to the $60 million announced at the 2019 UN Joint Response Plan (JRP) launch in Geneva on 15 February.

This brings the total US contribution to the 2019 JRP to $105 million, said the US embassy in Dhaka on Sunday.

Aid for Rohingyas: US, EU pledge $87m fund

The Daily Star

February 18, 2019

 

                                                Reuters file photo

Staff Correspondent
The United States and European Union have announced additional funding of $60 million and €24 million ($27 million) respectively as humanitarian assistance for the Rohingya refugees.

The announcement came at the launch of the 2019 UN Joint Response Plan for Bangladesh in Geneva on February 15.

US urges Myanmar to create conditions for sustainable return of Rohingyas

DhakaTribune

February 16th, 2019

File photo of Rohingya refugees gather as hundreds of them protest against the repatriation at the Unchiprang camp in Teknaf, Bangladesh on Thursday; November 15, 2018 Reuters

It announced $60m in humanitarian aid at the launch of 2019 UN Joint Response Plan for Bangladesh

The United States has called on Myanmar to create the conditions that would allow for voluntary, safe, dignified, and sustainable returns of Rohingyas to their place of origin in Rakhine State.

Foreign minister urges US to convince Myanmar on Rohingya issue

bdnews24.com

31 Jan 2019

New Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has sought the US support to resolve the Rohingya crisis “amicably”.

He said he has requested the ambassador in Dhaka to make use of the Washington’s good relations with other countries to convince Myanmar to end the crisis.

“He said they would do that,” the minister said after his meeting with Ambassador Earl Miller on Thursday at his office.

Rohingya refugees rebuilding their lives in Chicago

Chicago has one of the largest number of Rohingya refugees that have been resettled in the US.

Rohingya mothers play with their children during a 'Mommy and Me' class at the Rohingya Cultural Center of Chicago. The class teaches children structured play, mothers how to bond with their children and prepare the children for school. Allison Joyce/Getty Images.

Dhaka briefs Washington about new government priorities

Senior Correspondent, bdnews24.com Published: 24 Jan 2019

The foreign secretary has briefed the US administrators about the priorities of the new government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Md Shahidul Haque held talks with USAID Administrator Mark Green and US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Ambassador David Hale on Tuesday, the Bangladesh embassy said.

U.S. signs Elie Wiesel genocide prevention act into law

The law is intended to prevent genocide and other atrocities that threaten national and international security. 
 By Ilanit Chernick
January 16, 2019 13:25

 

Elie Wiesel speaks at a World War II tribute. (photo credit: REUTERS)

 

US President Donald Trump signed a law on Monday declaring that the prevention of genocide and other atrocities is “a core national security interest” of the United States, adding that it is also “a core moral responsibility.”

( 14.12.2018 ) ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြ အေပၚႏွိပ္ ကြပ္မႈ Genocide အျဖစ္ ကန္ေအာက္ လႊတ္ေတာ္ အတည္ျပဳ

ၿမန္မာစစ္တပ္ရဲ႕လုပ္ရပ္ Genocide သတ္မွတ္ေရး အေမရိကန္ေအာက္လႊတ္ေတာ္မွာ မဲခြဲဆုံးျဖတ္စဥ္။

ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာမူဆလင္ေတြကို ျမန္မာစစ္တပ္က ရက္ရက္စက္စက္ ႏွိမ္နင္းခဲ့မႈကို Genocide ေခၚ လူမ်ိဳးတုန္း သတ္ျဖတ္မႈအျဖစ္ ေခၚဆိုသတ္မွတ္ဖို႔ အေမရိကန္ျပည္ေထာင္စု ေအာက္လႊတ္ေတာ္က တခဲနက္ အ တည္ျပဳ လိုက္ပါၿပီ။

Pence takes Suu Kyi to task over Myanmar treatment of Rohingya

Publish: November 14, 2018

SINGAPORE – The violence which drove 700,000 Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar into Bangladesh was “without excuse”, US Vice President Mike Pence told Aung San Suu Kyi in stinging comments on Wednesday.

( 26.09.2018 ) Hearing: Genocide Against the Burmese Rohingya (Committe on Foreign Affairs )

( 24.09.2018 ) Documentation of Atrocities in Northern Rakhine State Share ( Stat Department Report )

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( 25.08.2018 ) Rally at the U.S. Capitol for Rohingya Genocide Remembrance Day, Washington, United States

Rally at the U.S. Capitol for Rohingya 

Genocide Remembrance Day, Washington, United States