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On May 19, 2023, as a civil society member, Wai Wai Nu spoke at the United Nations Security Council Arria-Formula Meeting on Myanmar before Member States of the Council, ASEAN, ASEAN Dialogue Partners, and bordering countries.
I thank the United Kingdom for convening this Arria-Formula (...)
Cyclone Mocha left a trail of devastation in the Bangladesh refugee camps and Rakhine State according to a press conference held today by Women’s Peace Network, and led by members of the affected communities in Bangladesh’s Kutupalong refugee camp and Rakhine State’s Maungdaw and Sittwe townships. (...)
One year ago, the United States made a historic determination: the atrocities committed against the Rohingya by the Burmese military constitute genocide and crimes against humanity. Secretary of State Antony Blinken made this announcement in front of Rohingya and Holocaust survivors at the (...)
The Rohingya community is facing a deteriorating situation in Myanmar and across South and Southeast Asia, according to a new report by Women’s Peace Network (WPN): “We are targeted for being Rohingya in Myanmar and everywhere.”
The report’s launch marked the one-year anniversary of the United (...)
U Nay San Lwin is the co-founder of the Germany-based Free Rohingya Coalition, but better known on social media as Ro Nay San Lwin. Known for his Rohingya activism, he has described the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) as criminals who kill their own kind. U Nay San Lwin talked recently to (...)
A Chinese-backed power plant that forms an important part of the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor (CMEC) scheme in Myanmar’s western Rakhine State opened this week, signaling that Beijing is moving forward with its projects in post-coup, conflict-torn Myanmar.
The US$180-million, gas-fired (...)
Despite the efforts of Myanmar’s military regime to expedite the development of the Kyaukphyu Special Economic Zone (KPSEZ) and deep sea port in western Myanmar’s Rakhine State, the project is facing significant delays due to local protests and the impact of last year’s coup.
Spanning 4,300 (...)
India’s foreign minister S Jaishankar defended his country’s ties with Myanmar’s military regime last month, arguing that a working relationship with the junta is needed because of issues such as organized crime, COVID-19 and Indian insurgents based in Myanmar.
The minister told an audience at (...)
Today, we, Women’s Peace Network, welcome the International Court of Justice’s ruling on the preliminary objections from The Gambia v. Myanmar. The Court’s decision to reject these objections marks a momentous step towards the justice that Rohingya, as well as other ethnic and religious minority (...)
‘There is no way the personal data of nearly a million European people would ever be treated like this.’
I saw this coming, and I wish I had been wrong.
Back in 2017, I wrote here of the risks of the UN’s refugee agency, UNHCR, collecting biometric registration data from Rohingya refugees, (...)
Rakhine communities say Myanmar’s shadow civilian National Unity Government’s (NUG) policy on Rohingya does not represent Rakhine people.
The NUG, formed by elected lawmakers in mid-April to rival the military regime, on June 3 said it will replace the 1982 Citizenship Law with legislation (...)
Int’l community must share responsibility, it says
The United Nations has urged the international community to step up and share responsibility, noting that recent developments in Myanmar make the prospects of voluntary repatriation of the Rohingyas to Myanmar in the short term more (...)
In honour of human rights and human dignity and also to eradicate the conflicts and root causes in the Union, the National Unity Government aims to build a prosperous and federal democratic union where all ethnic groups belonging to the Union can live together peacefully. This objective is (...)
Rakhine State’s voters and some senior party members have questioned the convictions of the Arakan National Party (ANP), the largest ethnically Rakhine party, as it begins to cuts ties with Myanmar’s regime three months after taking a seat on the military’s governing council.
ANP policy (...)
Myo Min outlines the potential and limitations of anti-coup protesters’ solidarity with the cause of the Rohingya.
In the aftermath of Myanmar’s military coup on 1 February 2021, hundreds of thousands of people from almost every ethnic group, including people from the Rohingya community, have (...)
Myanmar’s military regime removed the ethnic armed group, the Arakan Army (AA), from its list of terrorist groups on Wednesday with the approval of the military’s governing body, the State Administrative Council (SAC).
The Central Committee for Counterterrorism on March 23, 2020, declared the (...)
Protests against the 1 February military coup, which ousted Aun San Suu Kyi, continue in Myanmar despite an increasingly brutal crackdown. At the same time there are signs that widespread public resentment against the country’s Muslim Rohingya minority may be softening. Dominik Muller reports. (...)
Abstract
Myanmar emerged as the promising state in the twentieth-century as it not only released Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest but ushered into political and economic reforms. The adoption of the 2008 Constitution and political and economic reforms brought an end to the military junta (...)
The 1 February coup by the military State Administration Council has caused protest and confusion in Myanmar and around the world. In this commentary, Kyaw Lynn puts in context the complexity of factors, personal as much as institutional, that preceded the military takeover during a difficult (...)
Myanmar’s second national election since its transition from military rule, scheduled for 8 November 2020, is critical for the young democracy. In Rakhine state, an inclusive and fair election matters for preventing any further alienation among a people already beset with deep doubts about the (...)
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