カテゴリー: Myanmar
Brewer’s parent company, Kirin, provides foreign currency to military accused of genocideAustralian craft beer brewer Lion Little World has faced international criticism over a business partnership with the Myanmar military, which is accused of genocid…
General assembly’s vote in favour of resolution also calls on Myanmar to urgently combat incitement of hatredThe United Nations general assembly has approved a resolution condemning human rights abuses against Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims and other minor…
This year world leaders struggled to manage the fallout from the erratic tenant in the White House – as China flexed its imperial muscles. We look back at the events that created the most turbulenceClick here for 2019’s reasons to be cheerful A year of…
The Bangladeshi government is making life hard for young people trying to document levels of hardship in the world’s largest refugee settlementFor Azimul Hassan, 19, life before he entered the world’s largest refugee settlement was always busy.He would…
Criticism of Aung San Suu Kyi’s defence of her country must not overshadow the issue at the heart of the case at the international court of justice: the ongoing suffering of Rohingya MuslimsAung San Suu Kyi’s decision to personally defend Myanmar in th…
Leader’s silence ‘says far more than your words’, lawyer says during genocide hearingAung San Suu Kyi has been told her silence over allegations of sexual violence and rape carried out against Rohingya people in Myanmar “says far more than your words”,…
Leaders in refugee camps says justice will be delivered based on the evidence they have provided of Myanmar atrocitiesRohingya refugees have hit back at Aung San Suu Kyi’s claims at the international court of justice in testimony on Wednesday after she…
Myanmar leader tells court in The Hague that civilian deaths were not genocide, but part of a civil warShe might have been saving her best defence for the highest stage of all. But the arguments advanced by Aung San Suu Kyi at The Hague to allegations …
Aung San Suu Kyi has dismissed allegations of state violence against Rohingya Muslims at The Hague. Speaking on the second day of hearings at the International Court of Justice in the genocide case against Myanmar, the country’s de facto prime minister…
De facto PM defends actions of government, saying attacks were initiated by insurgentsThe Nobel peace prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has defended Myanmar’s government against accusations of genocide at the international court of justice, calling the a…
Humanitarian agencies say Rohingya people displaced by violence in Rakhine state are forced to live in squalid conditionsThe UK has broken ranks with the UN and will keep funding “closed” Rohingya camps inside Myanmar despite fears that doing so may en…
World’s failure to act over Myanmar is ‘stain on collective conscience’, UN court toldAung San Suu Kyi has sat impassively through graphic accounts of mass murder and rape perpetrated by Myanmar’s military at the start of a three-day hearing into alleg…
Peace prize winner will lead her country’s defence against claims at court in NetherlandsA momentous legal confrontation will take place at the UN’s highest court this week when the Nobel peace prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi appears in person to defend …
With rape and domestic abuse endemic in the lawless refugee camp, safe spaces have been set up to help the women affectedIn a small, dark hut within the world’s largest refugee settlement, a fan hums quietly as Faizal speaks. He says that last month hi…
Burmese leader will lead delegation to international court of justice next monthAung Sang Suu Kyi will travel to The Hague to defend Myanmar against allegations of genocide, her office has announced.The Burmese leader, once an icon of democracy but now…