There is strong evidence that Myanmar’s Rohingya people are facing genocide at the hands of the country’s Buddhist rulers, leaving the ethnic minority group with little choice but to either die at the hands of local persecution, or put their lives in the hands of “people-smugglers” and attempt to flee[…]
A United Nations rights investigator raised concern on Wednesday about whether Myanmar’s election next month could be considered free and fair because dozens of candidates had been disqualified and hundreds of thousands of people denied the right to vote. Yanghee Lee, U.N. special rapporteur on rights in Myanmar, also said[…]
Muslims around the world are observing Ramadaan, and some are fasting under appalling circumstances. The Media Review Network’s Suraya Dadoo looks at some of the most disturbing places: CHINA: Until recently the population of Xinjiang, the largest of China’s administrative regions, was mostly Uighur. Most Uighurs are Muslim, and Islam[…]
A group called Protect the Rohingya has called on South Africans to highlight the plight of the Rohingya by wearing black on Saturday 13th June. According to the UN, the Rohingya in Burma are one of the world’s most persecuted ethnic minorities. Human rights violations against the Rohingya have been[…]
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman held talks here Sunday with visiting Malaysian Prime Minister Mohammed Najib Razak on major international and Islamic issues and explored prospects of expanding cooperation between the two key OIC countries. The two leaders also discussed “the racial discrimination and ethnic cleansing” against[…]
Myanmar brought ashore more than 700 “boat people” it had kept at sea for days aboard a seized vessel, as the United States on Wednesday called on the country to help solve a migrant crisis by recognizing the rights of its Muslim Rohingya minority. U.S. President Barack Obama has sought[…]
The UN refugee agency and Myanmar have sparred over the plight of the Rohingya ethnic minority at a meeting aimed at tackling the Southeast Asian migrant crisis in Bangkok. Representatives from 17 nations are meeting in the Thai capital on Friday for talks on the crisis, which has seen thousands of[…]
Malaysia has said it believes 139 people are buried in graves at remote detention camps used by people smugglers on the Thai border which were discovered on the weekend. Deputy Home Minister Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar said on Thursday that each grave site contained the remains of one person, not multiple[…]
Human rights groups have attacked a controversial new law in Myanmar that will force some women to have children at least three year apart. Khin Lay of the Yangon-based Triangle Women Support Group criticised the move on Monday, saying it would exclusively target the country’s minority Muslim population. “This law[…]
Relatively few people are aware of the Rohingya people who stem from Burma. This group of people face discrimination on a daily basis and have now taken to the sea in order to seek refuge from a country that does not accept them as citizens. The daily struggle for survival[…]
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