In China, Aung San Suu Kyi Finds a Warm Welcome (and No Talk of Rohingya)
By Jane Perlez Daw Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar with President Xi Jinping of China, in Beijing last year. She arrived for another visit on...
New York Times 1
Nov 30, 2017
Japan Forces Sterilization on Transgender People
The Japanese government has taken some positive steps to improve the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. But...
Human Rights Watch
Nov 29, 2017
Violence against women in South Sudan is occurring at twice the global average rate
The country’s civil war has killed more than 50,000 people, forced more than two million to flee abroad and plunged parts of the country...
The Independent
Nov 29, 2017
Bangladesh: Mass Death Sentences Confirmed
Members of the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) are summoned for a hearing before a special court in Dhaka, July 12, 2010. © 2010 Reuters The...
Human Rights Watch
Nov 28, 2017
Turkish Woman In Symbol Photo: These Red Crosses Mean That Alevis To Be Killed
The anxiety of the Alevis, whose houses were marked with a red cross in Turkey's Malatya province, has come to the agenda with this...
Stockholm Center for Freedom
Nov 26, 2017
US ‘Ethnic Cleansing’ Charge Won’t Help Govt Solve Rakhine Issue, President’s Office Says
The US decision to label the Myanmar Army’s counter-insurgency operation in northern Rakhine as “ethnic cleansing” is “unhelpful” for...
Irrawaddy
Nov 24, 2017
Uganda’s Slow Slide into Crisis
Executive Summary Uganda suffers from inefficient patronage politics and a downward spiral of declining governance, poor economic...
International Crisis Group 1
Nov 21, 2017
Myanmar: Rohingya trapped in dehumanising apartheid regime
The Rohingya people in Myanmar are trapped in a vicious system of state-sponsored, institutionalised discrimination that amounts to...
Amnesty International
Nov 21, 2017
Children Will Continue to Die of Starvation in Besieged East Ghouta
Children walk past a hole in the ground caused by strikes in the rebel-held town of Douma in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta region, on November...
Maram Haddad | News Deeply
Nov 21, 2017
‘He stuck a knife into my side’: Burmese army accused of gang-raping women and girls
By Emma Richards An exhausted Rohingya refugee woman pours water on her head from a paddy field as she waits to be taken to a refugee...
Asian Correspondent
Nov 17, 2017
Rohingya crisis unprecedented
Temporary shelters at Kutupalong Rohingya refugee camp near Cox's Bazar yesterday. Photo: Reuters Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday...
Daily Star
Nov 15, 2017
Myanmar: two foreign journalists could get three years on drone charge
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urges the authorities in Myanmar’s capital, Naypyidaw, to abandon the absurd proceedings against two...
Reporters without Borders 1
Nov 15, 2017
