Rohingyas keep coming
Rohingya refugees from Myanmar's Rakhine State are still crossing into Bangladesh though the two countries are expected to start the...
How Iran’s President Rouhani Can Turn Crisis into Opportunity
Manifold reasons lie behind Iran’s ongoing protests, but the immediate trigger appears to be widespread disgruntlement over the country’s...
International Crisis Group 1
Jan 4, 2018
Rohingya Children Facing ‘Massive Mental Health Crisis’
By Hannah Beech Jehora Begum was a fast runner, racing through rice paddies and splashing through canals. But how can a 12-year-old...
New York Times 1
Jan 2, 2018
Rohingya crisis: A postscript
THE year 2017 will be remembered for many reasons but the most significant of these is perhaps the Rohingya crisis. Because of its...
Daily Star
Jan 1, 2018
The Battle for Iran
Protest movements in the Middle East face enormous repressive hurdles and rarely have happy endings. Even when protesters “succeed” in...
Karim Sadjadpour | The Atlantic
Dec 31, 2017
Rohingya Muslim refugees face fresh misery as Bangladesh welcome runs out
After a year that has seen them subjected to a brutal Burmese military crackdown described as “ethnic cleansing” by the UN and US,...
The Independent
Dec 31, 2017
Authorities’ Greed of Bribe Set Sea Route Free for Human Traffickers
Burmese Authorities greed for bribe set the sea route for Human traffickers in trafficking Rohingyas to Malaysia in villages of Phauktaw...
Rohingya Vision
Dec 29, 2017
Gays Hide, Flee Ex-Soviet Republics As LGBT Crackdowns Turn Brutal
BAKU -- Niko, a 27-year-old gay epileptic from Baku, recalls being beaten, tortured with electric shocks, and raped by four police...
Why the opposition?
The opposition to the resolution adopted by the UN General Assembly on Myanmar is perplexing. The proposal was put forth by the OIC...
Daily Star
Dec 27, 2017
Aung San Suu Kyi ‘avoided’ discussion of Rohingya rape during UN meeting
Aung San Suu Kyi avoided discussing reports of Rohingya women and girls being raped by Myanmar troops and police when she met a senior UN...
The Guardian
Dec 27, 2017
Myanmar Rohingya crisis: Reuters reporters stay jailed
Two Reuters journalists working on coverage of the Rohingya crisis in northern Myanmar have been remanded in custody for two more weeks....
BBC News
Dec 27, 2017
‘Jews out’ and ‘toasting the Holocaust’ daubed on Jewish buildings in Odessa, Ukraine
Anti-Semitic graffiti and slogans painted onto the city’s synagogue, Holocaust museum and community centre Unidentified individuals...
The Times of Israel
Dec 27, 2017
