UNHCR aids Myanmar cyclone victims

By air and by road, The UN refugee agency has sent in tonnes of shelter materials to help the estimated one million people made homeless by cyclone Nargis.  

Tin Soe: Striving for democracy in Myanmar

Features News – Wednesday, June 04, 2008 A. Junaidi, The Jakarta Post, JakartaTin Soe knows how difficult it is to be a minority Burmese Muslim — suffering discrimination and insecurity — as well as a journalist working in an authoritarian country...

A Case for Crimes against Humanity

By WAI MOE The Burmese military regime’s failure to respond effectively to Cyclone Nargis, its refusal to allow foreign relief workers access to the affected areas and its forcible eviction of refugees from shelters and health facilities amounts to crimes...
UNHCR’s double standards

UNHCR’s double standards

Udatta Bikash, Human Rights Practitioner, Dhaka Photo: www.msf.org. The UN Refugee agency, UNHCR has been playing a discriminatory role against the Rohingya refugees from Myanmar in Bangladesh.The agency has been supporting around 30,000 Rohingya refugees staying in...