Human Rights Watch (HRW) has warned that Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims could face permanent segregation if a new government policy to designate them as Bengali moves ahead.
News ID: 1456792 Publish Date : 2014/10/04
A radical monk who heads a movement accused of stirring violence against Muslims in Myanmar has announced a partnership with a hardline Buddhist group in Sri Lanka to defend their religion.
News ID: 1455881 Publish Date : 2014/09/30
Myanmar's national government has drafted a plan that will give around a million members of the persecuted Rohingya Muslim ethnic minority a bleak choice: accept ethnic reclassification and the prospect of citizenship, or be detained.
News ID: 1454663 Publish Date : 2014/09/28
The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Iyad Ameen Madani met with the Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon in Bali on 29 August 2014 at the sidelines of the Sixth Global Forum of UN Alliance of Civilization.
News ID: 1444797 Publish Date : 2014/08/31
Buddhist leaders in Arakan, Myanmar, are set to meet in the coming days in the Arakan State capital, Sittwe, regarding a proposal that would see Rohingya Muslims detained in camps unless they can provide proof of their citizenship.
News ID: 1443222 Publish Date : 2014/08/26
Myanmar's downtrodden Rohingya Muslims have been denied citizenship, targeted in deadly sectarian violence and corralled into dirty camps without aid.
News ID: 1440466 Publish Date : 2014/08/18
Rohingya Muslims continue to live under extremely harsh conditions in Myanmar, with tens of thousands now facing severe shortages of food, water and medical care in refugee camps.
News ID: 1437034 Publish Date : 2014/08/08
The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Iyad Ameen Madani, has appointed Tan Sri Dato Seri Syed Hamid Albar, former Foreign Minister of Malaysia, as his Special Envoy for Myanmar.
News ID: 1405637 Publish Date : 2014/05/11
Grand Imam of al-Azhar and president of al-Azhar University Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayeb has urged the world community to stand up for the rights of the oppressed Muslims in Myanmar.
News ID: 1399472 Publish Date : 2014/04/26
Myanmar state and central government officials have committed crimes against humanity, according to a report by a South-east Asia-based human rights organization released Tuesday.
News ID: 1380201 Publish Date : 2014/02/26
Unprecedented political reforms in Myanmar have been widely celebrated, but these achievements are marred by increasing religious extremism and horrific levels of violence aimed at the region's Muslims.
News ID: 1368908 Publish Date : 2014/02/01
United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay stated on Friday that Myanmar must inquire into the killing of at least 48 Rohingya Muslims in recent attacks reported in the country's conflict-ridden Arakan (Rakhine) state.
News ID: 1365693 Publish Date : 2014/01/25
The Myanmar military is busy in preparation to get rid of Rohingya Muslim minority within a short time in upcoming days before completion of Myanmar census 2014 that will be carried out from March 30 to April 10.
News ID: 1364525 Publish Date : 2014/01/24
Iyad Ameen Madani, the Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the OIC, has expressed deep concern regarding the recent events of 14th January, 2014 in which looting, raping and killing of Rohingya Muslim civilian citizens in southern Maungdaw, Rakhine State of Myanmar took place.
News ID: 1360576 Publish Date : 2014/01/18
A Buddhist mob rampaged through a town in an isolated corner of Myanmar, hacking Muslim women and children with knives, a villager and a rights group reported, saying Friday that more than a dozen people may have been killed.
News ID: 1360152 Publish Date : 2014/01/18
Western- and even Muslim world- media are so much preoccupied with terrorism and bombings these days that they seem to have forgotten the troubles of Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims.
News ID: 1351042 Publish Date : 2014/01/05
Rohingya Muslims who flee their homes to escape persecution in Myanmar are being sold to human traffickers in Thailand.
News ID: 1333983 Publish Date : 2013/12/07
Thousands of displaced Rohingya Muslims of Myanmar currently face harsh living conditions at refugee camps in India, Press TV reports.
News ID: 1325032 Publish Date : 2013/11/29
A group of extremist Buddhists in Myanmar have set fire to a mosque dating back to over 2 centuries ago.
News ID: 1322368 Publish Date : 2013/11/25
A group of Buddhist mobs have attacked the last standing mosque in Arakan’s Kyauk Phyu city, damaging the worshipping house severely and destroying its minaret.
News ID: 1319954 Publish Date : 2013/11/20
