A United Nations women's rights panel called on Myanmar on Tuesday to report within six months on rapes and sexual violence against Rohingya women and girl... READ MORE›
Rohingya refugees line up to get food aid from a local NGO after arriving from Myanmar at the Balukali refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh... READ MORE›
Pope Francis has delivered a keynote speech in Myanmar, demanding respect for each ethnic group but without referring specifically to its Muslim Rohingya community... READ MORE›
Bangladesh's main opposition party criticised the government for selling itself to the Myanmar government in order to get an agreement to remove the Rohingya... READ MORE›
Pope set for key Myanmar speech and meeting with Aung San Suu Kyi... READ MORE›
Pope Francis Arrives in a Myanmar Tarnished by Rohingya Crackdown... READ MORE›
Francis is also due to meet the country's civilian leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, and army chief Min Aung Hlaing... READ MORE›
Pope Francis has arrived in Myanmar as the country grapples with the Rohingya crisis... READ MORE›
Rohingya refugees who return to Myanmar following a Bangladesh-Myanmar repatriation agreement will initially have to live in temporary shelters or camps, Dhaka said Saturday... READ MORE›
The agreement was inked following a meeting between Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi and Bangladesh's Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali in Naypyitaw, Myanmar's capital... READ MORE›
-- Lotte Leicht LotteLeicht1 November 19, 2017 Aung San Suu Kyi, in her first public statement, had backed the military for their handling of the Rohingya crisis... READ MORE›
More than 600,000 Muslim Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh since late August driven out by a military clearance operation in Buddhist majority Myanmar's Rakhine State... READ MORE›
More than 600,000 Muslim Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh since late August driven out by a military clearance operation in Buddhist majority Myanmar's Rakhine State... READ MORE›
More than 600,000 Muslim Rohingya have fled to neighboring Bangladesh since late August, driven out by a military clearance operation in Buddhist majority Myanmar's Rakhine State... READ MORE›
Meanwhile, Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi's various Rohingya commissions are continuing their work... READ MORE›
Over 6,00,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh from predominantly Buddhist Myanmar's Rakhine state since late August after large-scale violence... READ MORE›
For the Rohingya at Ah Lei Than Kyaw, some 5 km south of the mouth of the Naf River, the beach is a kind of purgatory... READ MORE›
As the influx of Rohingya pouring into Bangladesh from Myanmar continues, UNHCR press officer Vivian Tan looks at ways of addressing the most desperate situation... READ MORE›
One of the places Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi visited during her day trip to northern Rakhine was Taung Pyo, on the border with Bangladesh... READ MORE›
In Rakhine they did not go to family planning clinics, fearing the Myanmar authorities would give medicine that harms them or their children, Sultana said... READ MORE›
AP Photo Across the churning black water, Alam Jafar could see his frantic seven-year-old son gasping for breath, his arms flailing just above the ocean's surface... READ MORE›
Sitting in his hillside grocery shop in a Bangladesh refugee camp, Rohingya Muslim Momtaz-ul-Hoque takes a break to listen to an audio recording on his mob... READ MORE›
Nurij, 65, an exhausted Rohingya, receives water after she is carried to a port in Teknaf, Bangladesh, after crossing from Burma, on Oct. 25... READ MORE›
I would almost say 100 per cent are suffering from dehydration, heat exhaustion, heat stroke, says Dr. Nabiha Islam on treating Rohingya refugees... READ MORE›
Britain will spend an additional ?12 million on emergency food, shelter, and hygiene measures in response to the nightmare refugee crisis unfolding on the Bangladesh-Burma border... READ MORE›
So did most Rohingya and most of Burma, which is also called Myanmar. Suu Kyi's party won in a landslide... READ MORE›
Rohingya Muslims represent the largest percentage of Muslims in Myanmar, with the majority living in Rakhine State... READ MORE›
Four Rohingya refugees were trampled to death by an elephant in a makeshift camp in the Cox's Bazaar area of Bangladesh on Saturday morning... READ MORE›
With support from Bangladesh Army personnel, Habiba's tent has already been set up in a camp in Cox's Bazar district near the border... READ MORE›
Since the 1970s, only 34,000 Rohingya have been registered with the UN in Bangladesh, Tan said, with estimates of unregistered refugees in the hundreds of thousands... READ MORE›
Meanwhile, Bangladesh has proposed joint military operations with Myanmar against Rohingya fighters in Rakhine state... READ MORE›
Numbering about 1.1 million, there are now estimated to be more than 400,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh... READ MORE›
In recent days, tens of thousands of Rohingya have crossed into Bangladesh to escape mass killings they say are being perpetrated by Myanmar forces... READ MORE›
Thousands of Rohingya Muslims escaping violence in Myanmar were trapped at the border with Bangladesh as new fighting erupted in restive Rakhine state... READ MORE›
On Wednesday, the Bangladesh foreign ministry summoned Myanmar's ambassador to express deep concern over the military operation in northern Rakhine state... READ MORE›
Zeid Raad Al Hussein urged Myanmar to end the cruel military operation in Rakhine state... READ MORE›
'I am Rohingya' follows the journey of a young woman from her home in Myanmar to a refugee camp in Bangladesh... READ MORE›
It was the fast-flowing river that doomed the inhabitants of Tula Toli... READ MORE›
On arrival at Sittwe, the Rakhine state capital, we were given instructions... READ MORE›
Selfie-style video filmed by border guard police shows officers kicking, punching and slapping Rohingya men... READ MORE›
The Rohingya crisis has not dampened Aung San Suu Kyi's popularity at home... READ MORE›
Antonio Guterres 'deeply concerned' by reports of security crackdown which killed hundreds of Rohingya Muslims... READ MORE›
READ MORE 'Fire and destruction ' as Myanmar army targets Rohingya Most of Myanmar's estimated one million Rohingya Muslims live in northern Rakhine state... READ MORE›
Myanmar officials blamed the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army ARSA for the torching of homes in Rakhine State... READ MORE›
Izhar was driven to Penang Island, where her husband was working on a building site... READ MORE›
Bangladesh's border region, home to around 12,000 Rohingya refugees that fled Myanmar, faced the brunt of the storm... READ MORE›
Rohingya refugees who have escaped a military crackdown in Myanmar are accusing the army of raping women and girls... READ MORE›
The latest round of violence in Myanmar's Rakhine State began last month when Rohingya fighters attacked about 30 police posts and army bases, prompting a military crackdown... READ MORE›
Thousands of Rohingya people displaced as violence in Burma erupts again... READ MORE›
The ceasefire announced on Saturday in a statement by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army ARSA is scheduled to start on Sunday... READ MORE›
Myanmar's suu kyi skips un assembly amid criticism over rohingya crisis... READ MORE›
More than half of the 400,000 refugees who have fled Myanmar for Bangladesh since late August are children, and hundreds came without parents, Unicef said... READ MORE›
Boat packed with at least 31 people reportedly chased by a Myanmar army speedboat as it tried to reach Bangladesh... READ MORE›
Aung San Suu Kyi's government has angrily dismissed many of the claims as fabrications ... READ MORE›
In recent weeks, more than 10,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh amid a military crackdown on insurgents in Myanmar's western Rakhine state... READ MORE›
About 164,000 Rohingya Muslims have poured into Bangladesh from Myanmar's Rakhine state since violence erupted two weeks ago... READ MORE›
Rakhine-based Rohingya fighters, who emerged in October last year, say they have no ties to any 'terrorist group'... READ MORE›
The plan targets 1.2 million people, including all Rohingya refugees, and 300,000 Bangladeshi host communities over the next six months, he said... READ MORE›
But with Suu Kyi's continued reluctance to speak out on the Rohingya's plight and the ensuing human rights crisis, her star has begun to dim... READ MORE›
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