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Iran edge Myanmar at Women’s Olympic Football Tournament Round 1 06 Apr 2023

Iran edge Myanmar at Women’s Olympic Football Tournament Round 1

Iran edged Myanmar 1-0 in their Women’s Olympic Football Tournament Paris 2024 Asian Qualifiers Round 1 Group B opener on Wednesday at the Thuwunna Stadium in Yangon, Myanmar.

UN Called for New Solutions for Rohingya Crisis 22 Aug 2020

UN Called for New Solutions for Rohingya Crisis

The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, called Friday for renewed solutions for displaced and stateless Rohingya communities inside and outside Myanmar.

Myanmar security forces possible war crimes 21 Jan 2020

Myanmar security forces possible war crimes

Myanmar security forces committed war crimes in operations that led more than 700,000 members of the country’s Muslim Rohingya minority to flee to neighboring Bangladesh.

UN Resolution against Abuse of Rohingya Muslims 28 Dec 2019

UN Resolution against Abuse of Rohingya Muslims

TEHRAN (Iran News) – The UN approved a resolution strongly condemning human rights abuses against Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims and other minorities, including arbitrary arrests, torture, rape, and deaths in detention. The 193-member UN on Friday voted 134-9 with 28 abstentions in favor of the resolution which also calls on Myanmar’s government to take urgent measures […]

Saudi Torturing Rohingya Detainees to End Hunger Strike 18 Apr 2019

Saudi Torturing Rohingya Detainees to End Hunger Strike

Scores of stateless Rohingya refugees detained inside a Saudi detention center have gone on hunger strike to demand an end to their indefinite detention in the kingdom.

Myanmar wants to ‘work closely’ with Bangladesh 10 Jan 2019

Myanmar wants to ‘work closely’ with Bangladesh

Myanmar President Win Myint has expressed his interest in working closely with Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to address the common challenges of both countries. “Notwithstanding the challenges facing our two countries, I believe that, through our joint efforts based on genuine goodwill and good neighborliness, the bonds of friendship and cooperation between Myanmar and […]

Rights Group Welcomes EU’s Myanmar Decision 12 Dec 2018

Rights Group Welcomes EU’s Myanmar Decision

The Burma Human Rights Network (BHRN) welcomed on Wednesday the European Council’s recent decision to adopt additional sanctions against Myanmar’s senior military and border guard officials for human rights violations. In a written statement, the London-based human rights agency said: “With atrocities continuing against the Rohingya and other Burmese minorities, these sanctions are an important […]

Horrendous year for Rohingya refugees worsened by intl. inaction 02 Sep 2018

Horrendous year for Rohingya refugees worsened by intl. inaction

 It has been one year since Rohingya Muslims were forced to leave Myanmar following brutal crackdown by Myanmar military with tacit support from the government. As per conservative estimates, there are around 905,000 Rohingya refugees presently in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar, although some human rights bodies have put the figure higher. The exodus of persecuted Rohingya […]

Myanmar rejects UN probe on Rohingya abuses 29 Aug 2018

Myanmar rejects UN probe on Rohingya abuses

Myanmar rejected Wednesday the findings of a UN probe alleging genocide by its military against the Rohingya, in a strident government response to a damning report on the crisis. Myanmar has come under immense pressure this week over last year’s military crackdown that pushed more than 700,000 of the Muslim minority into Bangladesh. Monday’s report […]

Resilient and resourceful, Rohingya diaspora carve out new lives 23 Aug 2018

Resilient and resourceful, Rohingya diaspora carve out new lives

Driven from Myanmar over decades, Rohingya Muslims have been labelled the most persecuted people on earth. But resilience and ingenuity have led members of the stateless community to forge new lives — everywhere from refugee camps in Bangladesh to the hospitals of Switzerland. Many fled Myanmar as children. Some have been granted refugee status, others […]