TEHRAN (IQNA) – The United Nations on Friday said its human rights envoy for Myanmar will probe escalating violence in the country, including a military crackdown on Rohingya Muslims, when she visits next week.
News ID: 3461878 Publish Date : 2017/01/07
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Dozens of Nobel laureates and global leaders have criticized Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi for failing to protect the basic human rights of Rohingya Muslims in the country's Rakhine State.
News ID: 3461841 Publish Date : 2017/01/02
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Myanmar’s home affairs minister said on Friday that a “food flotilla” that a Malaysian Muslim organization plans to send to restive northern Rakhine state to help ethnic Rohingya affected by communal violence is “an insult.”
News ID: 3461822 Publish Date : 2016/12/31
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A special envoy of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has proposed for Malaysia to establish a special registration system to identify and record all Rohingya Muslim refugees’ arrival in the country.
News ID: 3461790 Publish Date : 2016/12/27
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Human Rights Watch group says high-definition satellite images show 820 newly identified structures destroyed this month in five Rohingya Muslim villages in the Myanmar's troubled Rakhine state.
News ID: 3461481 Publish Date : 2016/11/22
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Hundreds of buildings in Rohingya villages in western Myanmar have been torched, according to new satellite images released on Sunday as fresh fighting flared in the strife-torn region.
News ID: 3461412 Publish Date : 2016/11/14
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Rohingya Observatory for Human Rights said at least 23,000 Muslim families are now living without shelter after they have been displaced from their homes since October 9.
News ID: 3461332 Publish Date : 2016/11/05
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Myanmar Security forces carried out raids and arbitrary incursions campaign against Rohingya homes in a number of neighborhoods of north Maungdaw city of Arakan state, and continued to campaign for seven hours since seven in the morning until noon the agency correspondent said.
News ID: 3461288 Publish Date : 2016/10/31
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Myanmar authorities recently issued orders to remove barriers and fences that protect Rohingya homes of repeated attacks by Buddhists in northern Maungdaw city of Arakan state.
News ID: 3461272 Publish Date : 2016/10/30
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Rohingya advocacy groups worldwide are calling for an international push to allow humanitarian aid to get through to western Rakhine State and stem what they refer to as the mass starvation of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim community, Anadolu Agency reported.
News ID: 3461260 Publish Date : 2016/10/29
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Human rights advocates have reported claims from members of the stateless Rohingya minority that Myanmar’s army is moving into their villages and treating all men and boys as suspected militants.
News ID: 3461165 Publish Date : 2016/10/18
TEHRAN (IQNA) -Myanmar’s ethnic Rohingya Muslims, who have fled persecution in their home country and resettled in India, face the threat of eviction from the camps they are living in.
News ID: 3358890 Publish Date : 2015/09/07
TEHRAN (IQNA) - The UN has issued a warning over an expected surge of mostly Rohingya and Bangladeshi refugees heading out for southeast Asia by the end of the month.
News ID: 3354206 Publish Date : 2015/08/31
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) - Escaping the violence and the poverty of their homeland hundreds of improvished women from Myanmar some only teenagers, are being forced into marriage.
News ID: 3338732 Publish Date : 2015/08/04
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) - Istanbul is currently hosting a photo exhibition by award-winning photographer Greg Constantine at Galata Fotoğrafhanesi.
News ID: 3327875 Publish Date : 2015/07/14
TEHRAN (IQNA) - Nobel Peace Prize winner and educational activist Malala Yousafzai urged world leaders on Monday, June 8, to stop Burmese persecution of the Rohingya Muslim minority.
News ID: 3312993 Publish Date : 2015/06/13
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Hollywood actor Matt Dillon became the first celebrity to put a spotlight on the plight of Burma's (Myanmar’s) long-persecuted Rohingya Muslims, paying a visit to a hot, squalid camp for tens of thousands displaced by violence.
News ID: 3310451 Publish Date : 2015/06/02
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
