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
TEHRAN (IQNA) - United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon said Saturday that saving the lives of migrants stranded at sea in Southeast Asia should be a "top priority" as the region battles with an exodus of boat people fleeing persecution and poverty.
News ID: 3306693 Publish Date : 2015/05/23
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) - A mass grave believed to contain the remains of migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh has been discovered at a human-trafficking camp in southern Thailand, security sources say.
News ID: 3248330 Publish Date : 2015/05/04
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) - Thousands of Myanmar's displaced Rohingya Muslims, who are camping across several states in India, are grappling with a dire situation there
News ID: 2614908 Publish Date : 2014/12/03
TEHRAN (IQNA) - Myanmar’s government is forcing the minority Rohingya Muslims to leave the country, says a rights activist.
News ID: 2613327 Publish Date : 2014/11/30
Thousands of Rohingya boat people who have left Myanmar in the past month have yet to reach their destinations, say relatives and an advocacy group for the persecuted minority, raising fears their boats have been prevented from reaching shore.
News ID: 1473891 Publish Date : 2014/11/17
More than 200 boat people held in southern Thailand will be pushed back out to sea, police said on Monday, despite calls by rights group to stop a policy that puts would-be asylum seekers at risk.
News ID: 1472029 Publish Date : 2014/11/11
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
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
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
Buddhist politicians, monks and community leaders in Myanmar's Rakhine State called for the creation of an “Arakan National Defense Army” against the region's persecuted Muslim Rohingya community.
News ID: 1404522 Publish Date : 2014/05/07
