Press Releases & Meeting Summaries

UNITED NATIONS
GENEVA
 2018

• 12 March 2018
  HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL DISCUSSES HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION IN MYANMAR

• 23 March 2018
  HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL EXTENDS MANDATES ON DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA, SYRIA, IRAN, SOUTH SUDAN AND MYANMAR
• 27 June 2018
  HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL HOLDS SEPARATE INTERACTIVE DIALOGUES WITH COMMISSION OF INQUIRY ON BURUNDI AND WITH SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON MYANMAR
• 4 July 2018
  HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL HOLDS INTERACTIVE DIALOGUE WITH THE HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ON THE SITUATION IN MYANMAR

• 26 July 2018
  NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF MYANMAR PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS OFFICE AT GENEVA

• 18 September 2018
  HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL HOLDS INTERACTIVE DIALOGUE WITH THE INDEPENDENT INTERNATIONAL FACT-FINDING MISSION ON MYANMAR

 2019

• 18 February 2019
  COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN HEARS FROM CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS FROM COLOMBIA, ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA, ETHIOPIA AND MYANMAR

• 11 March 2019
  HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL DISCUSSES THE SITUATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN MYANMAR
• 22 March 2019
  HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL ADOPTS FIVE RESOLUTIONS, EXTENDS MANDATES ON MALI AND MYANMAR, AND CLOSES FORTIETH SESSION

• 29 August 2019
  COMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES STRESSES THE NEEDS TO ADDRESS THE SITUATION OF WOMEN, GIRLS AND ETHNIC MINORITIES IN DIALOGUE WITH MYANMAR

UN weighs assisting with Rohingya island relocation plan.

Frontier
MYANMAR
Tuesday, March 26, 2019

People get off a boat on Bhashan Char island off the Bangladesh coast in October 2018, as it was being prepared for the relocation of Rohingya refugees. (AFP)

By AFP

DHAKA — The United Nations said Monday it was examining how to assist Bangladesh in relocating thousands of Rohingya refugees to a remote island despite warnings it could trigger fresh humanitarian upheaval.

Dhaka says shifting 100,000 refugees to a muddy silt islet in the Bay of Bengal will take pressure off overcrowded camps along its southern border, where almost a million Rohingya Muslims live in cramped tent cities.

No hurry to relocate Rohingyas to Bhasan Char, says Junior Minister Enamur.

bdnews24.com
26 Mar 2019 10:14 AM BdST

Bangladesh is not in a hurry to relocate Rohingya refugees to a Bay of Bengal island, a minister told Reuters on Monday, after the United Nations sought more details on the government's plan, criticised by some human rights groups.

Bangladesh wants to move 100,000 of the nearly 1 million Rohingya Muslims sheltered in cramped camps in its southeastern district of Cox's Bazar to the remote island, known as Bhasan Char which it has been developing for the past two years.

The United Nations is making plans to help Bangladesh with the move, Reuters reported last week.