First global pledge to end cholera by 2030
Health officials from around the world are meeting in France to commit to preventing 90% of cholera deaths by 2030. The disease, which...
BBC News
Oct 3, 2017
Death threats against journalists by Hindu nationalists
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Indian authorities to identify and prosecute those responsible for the many death threats...
Reporters without Borders 1
Oct 3, 2017
Tracking Conflict Worldwide - September 2017
Trends and Outlook In Asia, the continuing security crackdown in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine State prompted over half a million Rohingya...
International Crisis Group 1
Sep 30, 2017
Foreign Secretary Shahidul: The Rohingya are forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals, not refugees
'Rohingya people have taken shelter in Bangladesh in terror of their lives. But, we do not want to call them refugees. We have a strong...
Bilkis Irani
Sep 29, 2017
The Burmese Military is Committing Crimes Against Humanity
In Bangladesh’s overflowing and squalid camps for the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya fleeing the Burmese army’s campaign of ethnic...
Washington Post
Sep 27, 2017
'Take Myanmar to UN court for crimes against humanity’
Bangladesh’s National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) called on the international community on Tuesday to take the government of...
Anadolu Agency
Sep 27, 2017
Culpability through denial and inaction
A Rohingya refugee cries as he holds his 40-day-old son, who died as a boat capsized in the shore of Shah Porir Dwip while crossing the...
Daily Star
Sep 24, 2017
‘Safe Zones’ for Rohingya Refugees in Burma Could Be Dangerous
When Bangladesh’s prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, spoke at the United Nations General Assembly this week, she focused on the humanitarian...
Human Rights Watch
Sep 23, 2017
Afghan President Speaks Out for Human Rights at UN
Afghanistan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai addresses the 72nd United Nations General Assembly at U.N. Headquarters in New York,...
Human Rights Watch
Sep 21, 2017
Myanmar Keeps Quiet, But Bangladesh Must Speak Out
Rohingya refugees wait for sacks of rice to be distributed on September 10, 2017 in Whaikhyang, Bangladesh. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)...
Forbes
Sep 20, 2017
Myanmar Rohingya exodus exposes abject failure of world leaders to deliver solution to refugee crisi
As almost 400,000 refugees flee ethnic cleansing in Myanmar, world leaders meeting at the UN General Assembly should hang their heads in...
Amnesty International
Sep 18, 2017
Violence in Myanmar shows the world needs to stop romanticising Buddhism
People dont generally associate Buddhists with violence, especially not the type of violence that sees houses set on fire and gunfire...
Charis Chang | New Zealand Herald
Sep 17, 2017
