U.N. Rohingya Conference Must Spark Concrete Action

ROBERT KENNEDY HUMANRIGHT
Alexis Capati
Catherine Cooper
October 3, 2025

“You already have the evidence. You already have the power. What is missing is the political will.” Rohingya Activist Wai Wai Nu at the U.N. High-level Conference on Tuesday, September 30, 2025. 

 

As the Rohingya community faces compounding crises, this week’s U.N. High-level Conference on the Situation of Rohingya Muslims and Other Minorities in Myanmar was held at a critical moment. The Rohingya, who are one of the most persecuted communities in the world, face existential threats, including international crimes by the Myanmar military and the Arakan Army, an ethnic armed group. Outside of Myanmar, the Rohingya who live in refugee camps in Bangladesh face drastic cuts to essential aid.

Rohingya Plea for International Intervention: UN High-Level Meeting Highlights Crisis

Devdiscouse
Devdiscourse News Desk | United Nations 
Updated: 02-10-2025

At a historic United Nations high-level meeting, Rohingya Muslims urged the international community to prevent mass killings in Myanmar and help them achieve normal lives. Despite decades of violence, displacement, and genocidal acts, the Rohingya continue to face severe human rights abuses without substantial international intervention.

 

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In a significant gathering at the United Nations, Rohingya Muslims made an impassioned plea to the global community for intervention against the ongoing mass killings in Myanmar. The high-level meeting aimed to shed light on their decades-long suffering and the extreme conditions they continue to endure.

Rohingya Muslims plead for help at the UN to stop the killings in Myanmar

NEWS NATION
EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press 
Updated: Oct 1, 2025  

FILE – Rohingya refugees wait for food to be distributed during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan at their camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, March 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Shafiqur Rahman, File)

 

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Rohingya Muslims pleaded with the international community at the first United Nations high-level meeting on the plight of the ethnic minority to prevent the mass killings taking place in Myanmar and to help those in the persecuted group lead normal lives.

“This is a historic occasion for Myanmar, but this is long overdue,” Wai Wai Nu, the Rohingya founder and executive director of the Women’s Peace Network-Myanmar, told ministers and ambassadors from many of the U.N.’s 193-member nations in the General Assembly Hall.

Rohingya plight in Myanmar, a ‘test for humanity’

UNITED NATION
By Vibhu Mishra 
30 September 2025

© UNICEF/Mackenzie Knowles-Coursin Rohingya refugees cross the Naf River on a makeshift raft while fleeing violence in Myanmar, on their way to Bangladesh in 2017

“Houses burned. Neighbours killed. Hope vanishing.” With those stark words, General Assembly President Annalena Baerbock opened a high-level UN conference on Tuesday, as alarm rises over the impact of Myanmar’s deepening crisis which threatens to destabilise the wider region.

Fresh attacks against Rohingya in Myanmar, UN decries beheadings, violence

ABC News
By Libby Hogan and wires
Posted Mon 17 Jun 2024

                        The UN has denounced signs of new attacks on Rohingya civilians.(Reuters: Jorge Silva)

• In short: A powerful ethnic armed group has asked residents to leave a town ahead of their planned offensive in Myanmar.
• The Rohingya primarily inhabit Maungdaw town.
• What next? The Rohingya say they have nowhere to flee to and fear their homes will be burned down.

‘Nowhere to go’: Rohingya face arson attacks in Myanmar’s Rakhine State

Aljazeera
By Caleb Quinley
Published On 21 May 2024

Rohingya, targeted by the Myanmar military in 2017, are caught in the middle as the Arakan Army and military battle in the western state.

Smoke billows from a group of houses set on fire over the weekend [Courtesy of Planet Labs PBC]

 

Fighting between the Myanmar military and the Arakan Army (AA) has escalated in the western state of Rakhine in recent days, putting thousands of mostly Muslim Rohingya who live in the area at increased risk.

Rohingya Genocide Remembrance Day ( Nay San Lwin+ WaiWai Nu, Ambassador Rob Rae + Yasmin Ullah )

 5th Anniversary commemoration of Rohingya Genocide Remembrance Day.

မဝေဝေနုနဲ့ အင်တာဗျူး အမေရိကန်နိုင်ငံရဲ့ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ ပေါ်မှာ ရှိနေတဲ့ နိုင်ငံခြားရေးမူဝါဒ

Burme Human Rights Network
ဇူလိုင် ၂၉၊ ၂၀၂၂။ 

မဝေဝေနုနဲ့ အင်တာဗျူး

• အမေရိကန်နိုင်ငံရဲ့ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံပေါ်မှာရှိနေတဲ့ နိုင်ငံခြားရေးမူဝါဒ
• ICC ICJ Argentina မှာရှိနေတဲ့ အမှူကိစ္စတွေကို ဘယ်သူတွေက စတင်အကောင်ထည်ဖော်ခဲ့ပြီး ရိုဟင်ဂျာ တွေရဲ့အခန်းကဏ္ဏ
• ICC နဲ့ ICJ လုပ်ထုံးလုပ်နည်းများနဲ့ အမှူတည်ဆောက်ပုံ
• လူ့အခွင့်အရေးစံတန်ဖိုးနဲ့ တန်းတူအခွင့်အရေး
• R2P နဲ့ပတ်သက်လို့ ဆိုရှယ်မီဒီယာမှာ လူတချို့ရေးနေသလို မဟုတ်မမှန် ကောလဟလအကြော

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Rohingya, Justice, and Lessons from History

PV
December 2nd, 2021
Author: Progressive Voice

“The voluntary and dignified return of Rohingya will not be possible without addressing current human rights and humanitarian crisis stemming from the attempted coup by the Myanmar military. At the root of these crises is the military who continues to be able to enjoy blanket impunity.

 

                                       -“Wai Wai Nu, Women Peace Network

 

While the military junta continues its scorched earth offensives, particularly in Chin State, Sagaing Region, and Karenni State, a missed deadline to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) regarding steps that Myanmar has taken to prevent ongoing genocide against the Rohingya reminds the world that the military’s brutal violence we see today did not begin with its illegal coup attempt of the 1st of February. The ongoing persecution of the Rohingya, highlighted by civil society organizations, should have been a tipping point to catalyze a more effective, coordinated international response.

Myanmar’s Democratic Vision Depends on Including Rohingya, Other Ethnic Minorities “We will never be free until all of us are free.”

THE I DIPLOMAT

Wai Wai Nu
June 25, 2021

“We will never be free until all of us are free.”

Since the February 1 coup in Myanmar, the military has unfurled a brutal nationwide crackdown targeting protesters and civilians who oppose their unlawful rule. Indeed, last week’s stinging rebuke of the military coup by the United Nations General Assembly — only the fourth such resolution since the end of the Cold War — offers a stark reminder of what’s at stake.

Myanmar Went To the Polls for the Second Time Since the End of Military Rule but the Election Was Not Free or Fair

TIMES

By Wai Wai Nu

November 12, 2020 

Officials of the Union Election Commission count votes during the multi-party general elections at a polling station in Yangon, Myanmar, Nov. 8, 2020.
U Aung—Xinhua via Getty

 

The Rohingya Muslim minority, to which I belong, was again disenfranchised during Myanmar’s election on Nov. 8. My community, which has faced violence and discrimination, is being even further erased from our country. Many ethnic Rakhine, Shan, Kachin, and Karen were also not able to vote. An election that excludes entire communities because of their identity cannot be considered credible, free, nor fair.

Three Years of Campaign Against Ethnic Muslim Rohingyas ...

VOA
August 29, 2020

This month marks three years since Myanmar’s military launched an escalated campaign against the mostly ethnic Muslim Rohingyas in Rakhine state, with systematic rape, beatings, killings and burning of villages. 

Link :https://www.voazimbabwe.com/a/us-mynmar-rohinya-three-years-campaign/5562463.html 

'The World Has Not Forgotten Us.' A Rohingya Activist Speaks as Myanmar Faces Genocide Case

TIME
By Wai Wai Nu
December 11, 2019 

Wai Wai Nu, human rights activist from Burma and spokes person for the country's Rohingya minority, speaks at the opening press conference of the 2017 Oslo Freedom Forum on May 22 2017 at the Intercontinental Hotel in central Oslo.Julia Reinhart—NurPhoto via Getty Images

Wai Wai Nu is a Rohingya activist, former political prisoner, and founder of the Women Peace Network in Myanmar. Since her release from prison in 2012, Nu has dedicated herself to working for democracy and human rights, particularly on behalf of marginalized women and members of her own ethnic group, the minority Rohingya population. Originally from Rakhine state, Myanmar, she was named as a TIME Next Generation Leader in 2017, and is currently studying at Columbia University as an Obama Foundation scholar. This week, Nu is present at the International Court of Justice, the U.N.’s highest court, in The Hague, the Netherlands for hearings in a landmark case claiming Myanmar has violated the 1948 convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide. Myanmar’s de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, is leading the country’s defense and said Wednesday that “genocidal intent cannot be the only conclusion.”

Rohingya activist: US ban on Myanmar generals a first step

Dhaka Tribune
AFP
July 18th, 2019

Wai Wai Nu, an advocate for Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, speaks with AFP during an interview at the State Department in Washington, DC, July 17, 2019 AFP

Wai Wai Nu founded two groups promoting inter-ethnic harmony and women's rights

A formerly imprisoned Rohingya activist said Wednesday that a US ban on Myanmar's top generals was a welcome first step but urged more action to support the long-targeted minority.

Rohingya activist says US ban on Myanmar generals a first step

Mail onlineBy
Afp
17 July 2019

Wai Wai Nu, an advocate for Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, speaks at the State Department in Washington

A formerly imprisoned Rohingya activist said Wednesday that a US ban on Myanmar's top generals was a welcome first step but urged more action to support the long-targeted minority.

The State Department on Tuesday said that army chief Min Aung Hlaing, three other top officers and their families would not be allowed to visit the United States due to their roles in "ethnic cleansing" of the mostly Muslim Rohingya.