KUNA BRUSSELS – The EU Foreign Affairs Council, Monday, welcomed and endorsed a “Comprehensive Framework” consisting of priorities for the European Union’s policy and support in the next three years to Myanmar/Burma.”This Framework sets...
DHAKA: ARAB NEWS Hundreds of thousands of the Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar living in the Kingdom, who had received Bangladeshi passports in 1978-79 to flee Buddhist persecution in the Burmese state of Arkan, have been urged by Dhaka to forgo Bangladeshi...
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC STATEMENT Thailand: Ensure access to justice and protection for Rohingya asylum-seekers Thai authorities must ensure the investigation into the alleged rape of a Rohingya asylum- seeker from Myanmar is impartial and that all those...
By Reuters Muhammad Muslim, 52, fled Myanmar in 1988 when the junta brutally suppressed a pro-democracy movement in the country then known as Burma. As a Rohingya from western Rakhine state, he had no passport. Myanmar’s government does not grant citizenship to the...
By Agence France-Presse Yangon. Activists on Tuesday urged Myanmar President Thein Sein to “turn his words into action” after the former general promised to free all political prisoners by the end of the year. “I guarantee to you that by the end of this year there...
By Reuters Anti-trafficking campaigners have produced mounting evidence of the widespread use of slave labor from countries such as Myanmar on Thai fishing boats, which face an acute labor shortage. Fishing companies buy Rohingya men for between 10,000 baht ($320) and...
