Australia-ASEAN Summit: Turnbull Government Shouldn’t Mince Words with Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi
PRESS RELEASE [16 March 2018, Sydney] Australia will host a summit for leaders from the 10-country Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) this weekend. Among the attendees will be Burma’s de-facto civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Nearly 700,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh in the face of mass atrocities by the […]
Mass Atrocities against Rohingyas Require Urgent Action for Accountability Mechanism
PRESS RELEASE [Geneva, 12 March 2018] We, Rohingya and Burmese civil society organizations, strongly support High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein’s recommendation that the Human Rights Council ask the General Assembly to establish a new independent and impartial mechanism to prepare criminal proceedings against those responsible for the atrocities in Rakhine […]
ROHINGYA ACTIVISTS HIGHLIGHT IMPORTANT ROLES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
BRUSSELS: Attending the round-table discussion on “the Rohingya Crisis: the EU’s role to prevent ethnic cleansing and stateless” in European Parliament, Brussels, Rohingya activists raised the steps that the EU needs to take in stopping the atrocities being perpetrated on Rohingya by Myanmar Military since August 25, 2017. “Today is an important opportunity to […]