TEHRAN (IQNA) - A UN rights expert warned Thursday of turmoil in Myanmar if next week's landmark elections fall short of expectations for a credible vote.
News ID: 3421606 Publish Date : 2015/10/31
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Myanmar's upcoming elections risk further the country's slide away from the much-touted democratic success story.
News ID: 3383447 Publish Date : 2015/10/10
TEHRAN (IQNA) - A senior Muslim member of Myanmar’s National League for Democracy (NLD) says the opposition party has totally excluded Muslims from its electoral list.
News ID: 3358714 Publish Date : 2015/09/07
TEHRAN (IQNA) - Myanmar election authorities have banned a Rohingya Muslim member of parliament from running in a Nov. 8 poll that will be seen as a test of the country’s fledgling reform process.
News ID: 3351286 Publish Date : 2015/08/25
Tehran (IQNA)- The visiting UN special rapporteur on Myanmar has been barred from meeting the country’s long-persecuted Rohingya Muslims.
News ID: 3340150 Publish Date : 2015/08/09
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The refugee disaster that recently gripped Southeast Asia has waned, as countries in the region have taken in thousands of the migrants who had been abandoned at sea by smugglers.
News ID: 3330292 Publish Date : 2015/07/20
TEHRAN (IQNA) - Myanmar Buddhist nationalists vowed to protest against international pressure on the country to help boat people, a prominent monk said Tuesday, as humanitarian efforts to rescue desperate migrants stir festering anti-Muslim animosity.
News ID: 3308273 Publish Date : 2015/05/27
Myanmar's president has signed off a law requiring some mothers to space their children three years apart despite objections by rights activists.
News ID: 3307069 Publish Date : 2015/05/24
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Thousands of Myanmar refugees have been left abandoned as other countries in Southeast Asia turn boats carrying hundreds of people away.
News ID: 3303913 Publish Date : 2015/05/15
TEHRAN (IQNA) – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday urged Myanmar to address the citizenship status of Rohingya Muslims in the country’s western Rakhine state ahead of a general election scheduled to be held later this year.
News ID: 3202589 Publish Date : 2015/04/25
TEHRAN (IQNA) - The situation in Rakhine State in Myanmar remains "dire" and conditions of camps of internally displaced Muslims are "abysmal," a UN expert warned on Monday.
News ID: 3000083 Publish Date : 2015/03/17
TEHRAN (IQNA) - The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Special Envoy to Myanmar, Tan Sri Syed Hamid Albar, is in the United States to meet up with officials in efforts to mobilize support for the OIC initiatives to resolve the Rohingya issue.
News ID: 2986290 Publish Date : 2015/03/15
TEHRAN (IQNA) - Hundreds of protesters led by Buddhist monks rallied in Myanmar on Friday to denounce a visit by a human rights envoy of the United Nations, which has urged the government to grant citizenship to persecuted Rohingya Muslims.
News ID: 2718117 Publish Date : 2015/01/17
TEHRAN (IQNA) - New research documents abuses against Rohingya Muslims by Thai authorities, who should take action against camps in southern Thailand used for trafficking Rohingyas and punish officials complicit in abuse.
News ID: 2695212 Publish Date : 2015/01/11
TEHRAN (IQNA) - The United Nations (UN) has called on Myanmar to provide “full citizenship” to its Rohingya Muslim minority and grant it the same rights as those of other people in the country.
News ID: 2652312 Publish Date : 2014/12/30
TEHRAN (IQNA) - A twenty-nine year old Muslim youth in Arakan has been arrested and put in jail after Burmese authorities arrested him for being a computer expert.
News ID: 2616108 Publish Date : 2014/12/07
The United Nations has called on Myanmar to continue reforms to ensure credible elections next year and to step up efforts to protect ethic and religious minorities.
News ID: 1475982 Publish Date : 2014/11/23
Rights groups say thousands of Rohingya Muslims have been forced to leave Myanmar in the last three weeks due to a new controversial government plan.
News ID: 1470872 Publish Date : 2014/11/08
The United Nations is set to vote on a new draft resolution urging Myanmar’s government to abandon its plans to force Rohingya Muslims to identify as “Bengali” - a term used to brand the minority as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.
News ID: 1466612 Publish Date : 2014/11/02
Unprecedented numbers of Muslim Rohingya have been leaving Myanmar on boats for Thailand and Malaysia following a campaign of arrests, a leading NGO said Friday.
News ID: 1463320 Publish Date : 2014/10/25
