Myanmar refuses access to UN Special Rapporteur
The Government of Myanmar has informed UN Special Rapporteur Yanghee Lee that all access to the country has been denied and cooperation...
Genocide Watch
Dec 20, 2017
Myanmar bars UN probe as mass grave found in Rakhine
The UN's investigator into human rights in Myanmar has been barred from entering the country. Yanghee Lee had been due to visit in...
BBC News
Dec 20, 2017
Can Peacekeepers Break the Deadlock in Ukraine?
What’s the issue? In September 2017, Moscow proposed the deployment of UN peacekeepers along the line dividing Ukrainian from separatist...
International Crisis Group 1
Dec 15, 2017
MSF estimates more than 6,700 Rohingya killed in Myanmar
At least 6,700 Rohingya were killed in the month after violence broke out in Myanmar in August, Med The Myanmar military blames the...
BBC News
Dec 14, 2017
Myanmar’s Rohingya Actions May Be Genocide, U.N. Official Says
Rohingya refugees arriving in Bangladesh in September. CreditAdam Dean for The New York Times Myanmar came under renewed international...
Nick Cumming-Bruce | The New York Times
Dec 5, 2017
Time for Concerted Action in DR Congo
What’s the issue? President Joseph Kabila’s apparent determination to remain in power threatens to prolong the Democratic Republic of...
Genocide Watch
Dec 4, 2017
U.N. seeks report from Myanmar on rapes, deaths of Rohingya women
A United Nations women's rights panel called on Myanmar on Tuesday to report within six months on rapes and sexual violence against...
Reuters
Nov 28, 2017
Rohingya still fleeing Myanmar despite repatriation deal
Newly arrived Rohingya refugees wait to receive permission from the Bangladeshi army to continue their way after crossing the...
Dhaka Tribune 1
Nov 27, 2017
Ratko Mladić convicted of war crimes and genocide at UN tribunal
The former Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladić, nicknamed the ‘butcher of Bosnia’, has been sentenced to life imprisonment after being...
The Guardian
Nov 22, 2017
RSF hails new UN resolution on journalists’ safety
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) welcomes a new UN General Assembly resolution on the safety of journalists and the issue of impunity for...
Reporters without Borders 1
Nov 22, 2017
Rape is an act and a weapon of Genocide
FILE: A baby in a basket is one of 1.2 million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. Picture: @UNICEF/Twitter. A senior United Nations...
Reuters
Nov 12, 2017
UN Security Council: Refer Burma to the ICC
A Rohingya refugee family cross the Naf River at the Bangladesh-Myanmar border in Palong Khali, near Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh November 1,...
Human Rights Watch
Nov 3, 2017
