Feb 16, 2019 | News / Article, Refugee, USA
It announced $60m in humanitarian aid at the launch of 2019 UN Joint Response Plan for Bangladesh The United States has called on Myanmar to create the conditions that would allow for voluntary, safe, dignified, and sustainable returns of Rohingyas to their...
Feb 16, 2019 | Bangladesh, News / Article, Refugee
Despite these and other achievements, the Rohingyas remain in an extremely precarious situation. UNHCR underscored that until the root causes of displacement in Myanmar are addressed and refugees can voluntarily return in safety, Bangladesh must be supported to meet...
Nov 14, 2018 | News / Article
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Mike Pence expressed the Trump administration’s strongest condemnation yet of Myanmar’s treatment of Rohingya Muslims on Wednesday, telling leader Aung San Suu Kyi that “persecution” by her country’s army was “without...
Nov 10, 2013 | News / Article
By IRIN Photo: Contributor/IRIN “What talks?” ask people displaced from conflict in Kachin State’s largest IDP camp LAIZA, 7 November 2013 (IRIN) – Eighteen of Myanmar’s ethnic armed groups recently gathered in the rebel-controlled Kachin...
Nov 9, 2013 | News / Article
In an open letter addressed to EU High Reresentative for Foreign Affairs, Catherine Ashton, the General Secretary of UNPO urges EU representatives to devote special attention to the Chin and Rohingya ethnic minorities in Myanmar in light of the upcoming EU-Myanmar...
Oct 21, 2013 | News / Article
By KYAW HSU MON / THE IRRAWADDY RANGOON — British investment in Burma is on the rise, but problems on the ground in the Southeast Asian frontier market have some investors reluctant to commit, UK Ambassador to Burma Andrew Patrick said at a press conference on...
