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KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 26 (Bernama) -- ASEAN foreign ministers today reaffirmed that Myanmar must implement the Five-Point Consensus (5PC) to resolve its political crisis before holding any elections, and pledged to strengthen cooperation to address transnational crimes arising from the conflict.

Number of Rohingyas leaving by boats tripled in first half of 2025: UNHCR

Bangladesh Post
UNB, Dhaka
Bangladesh Post Desk
Published : 16 Oct 2025

The number of Rohingya refugees who left Bangladesh by boats in the first six months of the year tripled compared to last year, as conditions for children in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar camps continue to deteriorate and funding cuts reduce essential services, said Save the Children.

Remarks at a High-Level Conference on the Situation of Rohingya Muslims and Other Minorities in Myanmar

United States Mission to the United Nations
September 30, 2025

Charles Harder
Special Envoy for Best Future Generations
New York, New York

AS PREPARED

Thank you, Chair. Thank you, to the President of the General Assembly, and all speakers today.

The United States expresses its support for Rohingya and other Myanmar minorities who have been victims of repression and violence. Survivors of that persecution are here with us today. I commend their bravery in speaking out.

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.

The Rohingya are being forgotten at the UN

ARAB NEWS
Dr. Azeem Ibrahim
October 03, 20

The Rohingya are at risk of becoming a permanently forgotten people (File/AFP)

The annual UN General Assembly has once again come and gone. World leaders delivered lofty speeches about war, climate change, and human rights. Yet among the most acute humanitarian tragedies of our time, the plight of the Rohingya, there was little more than symbolic mention. The genocide that forced nearly a million Rohingya into Bangladesh, and the continued persecution of those still in Myanmar, risks being relegated to the margins of global concern.

US, UK pledge $96m in new aid

daily sun
UNB, Dhaka
Publish: Thursday, 02 October, 2025

The United States and the United Kingdom announced a fresh aid commitment of 96 million dollars in the first-ever high-level conference on the Rohingya and other Myanmar minorities at the UN headquarters on Tuesday, said Chief Adviser’s Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam.

The US announced a new donation of 60 million dollars and the UK 36 million dollars, he told UNB.

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.

High-Level Conference Highlights Significant Challenges Facing Resolution of Rohingya Refugee Crisis

THE | DIPLOMAT
By Sebastian Strangio
October 02, 2025

A safe and voluntary repatriation of refugees to Rakhine State remains unlikely for the foreseeable future. Is it time for a new approach?

Rohingya rights advocate Wai Wai Nu addresses the High-Level Conference on the Situation of Rohingya Muslims and Other Minorities at the U.N. General Assembly in New York, Sept. 30, 2025. Credit: X/Wai Wai Nu

On Tuesday, top U.N. and government officials warned of the critical situation facing Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar, due to funding shortfalls and the unstable political conditions inside Myanmar.

The High-Level Conference on the Situation of Rohingya Muslims and Other Minorities in Myanmar was convened at the United Nations General Assembly in New York to mobilize global support for Rohingya refugees and formulate a coordinated plan for the resolution of their return to Myanmar’s Rakhine State.

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.

New York Declaration on Rohingya Rights and Protection

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“Night is dark for us”: Rohingya refugees need protection before repatriation

MNESTY INTERNATIONAL
30 September 2025

By Joe Freeman, Myanmar Researcher at Amnesty International, and Carolyn Nash, Asia Advocacy Director at Amnesty International USA

This story was originally published by The New Humanitarian

Thirteen-year-old Nasima is scared of the dark.

But the Rohingya girl’s fears are not imaginary.

For her, the monsters are real: criminal gangs that stalk her refugee camp at night.

“After 7pm, we turn off the light in fear of the robber,” she said. “At nighttime, we cannot go out, even to go to the toilet.”

“Night is dark for us.”

Rohingya plight in Myanmar, a ‘test for humanity’

UNITED NATION
By Vibhu Mishra
30 September 2025

“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.

The United States expresses its support for Rohingya and other Myanmar minorities

United States Mission to
the United Nations
September 30, 2025

Charles Harder
Special Envoy for Best Future Generations
New York, New York

AS PREPARED

Thank you, Chair. Thank you, to the President of the General Assembly, and all speakers today.

The United States expresses its support for Rohingya and other Myanmar minorities who have been victims of repression and violence. Survivors of that persecution are here with us today. I commend their bravery in speaking out.

Rohingya Noticeably Absent From U.N. Conference

FP
Foreign Policy
Alexandra Sharp,
September 30, 2025,

Rohingya refugees gather to listen United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres during his visit to a refugee camp in Ukhia, Bangladesh, on March 14. Munir Uz Zaman/AFP via Getty Images

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at U.N. efforts to address the Rohingya crisis, an internet blackout in Afghanistan, and the collapse of one of Indonesia’s oldest Islamic schools.

HRW calls on UN to support protection and justice measures for Rohingya

Mizzima
September 30, 2025

Human Rights Watch (HRW) press release on 29 September calls on United Nations member states to commit to urgent action on 30 September meeting on the plight of the Rohingya in Myanmar. HRW says Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, Bangladesh and across Asia in need of protection from persecution and violence. The text of the press release continues below.

(Part 2) High-level Conference on the Situation of Rohingya Muslims and Other Minorities in Myanmar - General Assembly, 80th session

United Nation
30 Sep 2025

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