Jul 4, 2008 | Latest
By LALIT K JHA / NEW YORK IRRAWADDY NEWS Thursday, July 3, 2008 The UN Security Council will take up the political impasse in Burma this month, the US Ambassador to the United Nations, Zalmay Khalilzad, said on Wednesday. No agreement on...
Jun 22, 2008 | Latest
Says UN secy general Staff Correspondent Published On: 2008-06-21 Sarwar Nipa and Mahmuda Akter read out excerpts from a novel titled 'Sonajhara Din', the Bengali version of 'A Golden Age' by Tahmima Anam, at a programme marking the World Refugee Day...
Jun 10, 2008 | Latest
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.
Jun 4, 2008 | Latest
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...
Jun 3, 2008 | Latest
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...
Jun 3, 2008 | Latest
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...
