TEHRAN (IQNA) – Human rights groups on Wednesday called on Southeast Asian leaders to rethink their approach to the Rohingya Muslim refugee crisis ahead of a regional summit in Bangkok this week.
News ID: 3468788 Publish Date : 2019/06/19
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The world must cut off financial and other support for Myanmar’s armed forces, a UN fact-finding mission said on Tuesday, repeating a call for top generals to be prosecuted for abuses against the Rohingya Muslim minority.
News ID: 3468515 Publish Date : 2019/05/14
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani expressed hope that with the establishment of peace and security in Myanmar, Rohingya Muslim refugees can return to the country quickly.
News ID: 3468091 Publish Date : 2019/03/09
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Nearly 600,000 refugees at the Rohingya camps in Cox's Bazar are at high risk of cyclones with only rotting bamboos and shredding plastics to protect them, warned the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC).
News ID: 3467965 Publish Date : 2019/02/19
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Free Rohingya Coalition (FRC) will host an international conference at Barnard College, Columbia University in New York City on Feb. 8 and 9.
News ID: 3467862 Publish Date : 2019/02/03
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A top UN official on Friday urged Saudi Arabia and India not to deport members of the persecuted Rohingya Muslim community to Bangladesh but instead to grant them refugee status.
News ID: 3467792 Publish Date : 2019/01/26
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Indian police on Tuesday arrested 31 Rohingya Muslims stranded on the border after they were denied entry into Bangladesh and border officials failed to agree on what to do with members of the community fleeing a crackdown in India.
News ID: 3467769 Publish Date : 2019/01/22
TEHRAN (IQNA) – More than 720,000 Rohingya Muslims are living in camps in Bangladesh after they were driven out of Myanmar's northern Rakhine state during a military campaign in 2017 that the United Nations has described as ethnic cleansing.
News ID: 3467730 Publish Date : 2019/01/19
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Dozens of Rohingya are being deported from Saudi Arabia to Bangladesh, despite being from Myanmar.
News ID: 3467651 Publish Date : 2019/01/08
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims will be spending their second New Year in Bangladeshi refugee camps as prospects of them returning to Myanmar remain dim.
News ID: 3467566 Publish Date : 2018/12/30
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The international community should put forward concrete plans to resolve the Rohingya crisis, head of a Rome-based human rights group said.
News ID: 3467503 Publish Date : 2018/12/19
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The European Commission has provided an additional 5 million euro which will be used for life-saving food assistance for Rohingya Muslim refugees in Bangladesh.
News ID: 3467438 Publish Date : 2018/12/11
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The CEO of Twitter has faced fierce criticism for promoting Myanmar as a tourist destination in a series of tweets despite hundreds of thousands of Muslim refugees fleeing human rights abuses that the UN says amounts to genocide.
News ID: 3467430 Publish Date : 2018/12/10
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A new exodus of boats carrying Rohingya Muslims fleeing from Myanmar has begun, with at least six boats carrying hundreds of refugees intercepted at sea or washing ashore over the past month.
News ID: 3467390 Publish Date : 2018/12/05
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Authorities in Myanmar seized a boat carrying 93 people, apparently Rohingya Muslims, fleeing displacement camps in western Myanmar’s Rakhine State and hoping to reach Malaysia, an official said on Tuesday.
News ID: 3467314 Publish Date : 2018/11/27
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A United Nations committee on Friday endorsed a resolution turning up the heat on Myanmar over the persecution of its Rohingya Muslim minority.
News ID: 3467235 Publish Date : 2018/11/17
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Southeast Asian nations will call for those responsible for atrocities in Myanmar’s Rakhine state to be held “fully accountable”, according to a statement prepared for a regional summit, reflecting a stronger line being taken within the group.
News ID: 3467209 Publish Date : 2018/11/13
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The United Nations refugee agency on Monday cautioned against returning ethnic Rohingya Muslims to Myanmar from Bangladesh at this time, urging that officials be allowed to assess whether it is safe for them to return.
News ID: 3467206 Publish Date : 2018/11/12
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The governments of Bangladesh and Myanmar are to push ahead with the repatriation of thousands of Rohingya Muslims this week, despite objections by the UN, and against the wishes of the refugees, who spoke of being “terrified” at being sent back.
News ID: 3467193 Publish Date : 2018/11/11
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Saudi Arabia is set to send scores of Rohingya Muslim refugees to Bangladesh, years after they fled persecution in their home country; but have indefinitely been held in the Kingdom’s detention centers.
News ID: 3467172 Publish Date : 2018/11/09
