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Myanmar: ‘Outrageous’ denial of access to top UN official
Reacting to the news that the Myanmar authorities have denied access to UN Special Rapporteur Yanghee Lee, James Gomez, Amnesty International’s Director for Southeast Asia and the Pacific, said the…
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UN Security Council: End disgraceful inaction on Myanmar’s Rohingya crisis
Japan should use its United Nations Security Council presidency to end three and a half months of deadlock in the face of ongoing crimes against humanity targeting the Rohingya in…
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Press Release
House Passes Resolution Condemning Myanmar Military’s Atrocities Against Rohingya
Today the House passed a resolution calling on the Myanmar military to cease its ethnic cleansing campaign against the Rohingya and to allow humanitarian aid groups to access northern Rakhine…
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Update
Board letter to McConnell re Rohingya
December 5, 2017 Senator Mitch McConnell Majority Leader S-230 Capitol Building Washington, DC 20510 Re: Amnesty International USA Urges Senate to Pass the Burma Human Rights and Freedom Act (S.…
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UN: China fails to scupper resolution on Myanmar’s persecution of Rohingya
Responding to the failed attempt by China, Philippines and Burundi to vote down a UN Human Rights Council resolution on the situation of the Rohingya and other minorities in Myanmar,…
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Update
Human Rights on Capitol Hill: November 2017
In this edition of Human Rights on Capitol Hill: (1) Rohingya: Secretary Tillerson condemns Myanmar military’s atrocities against the Rohingya as ethnic cleansing, but Congress needs to pass legislation to ensure…
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Bangladesh: Rohingya refugees must not be relocated to uninhabitable island
The Bangladesh government must abandon all plans to relocate more than 100,000 Rohingya refugees on to an uninhabitable island, Amnesty International said today.
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Pope’s visit in Myanmar highlights horrific crimes against Rohingya
Reacting to the remarks by Pope Francis during his visit to Myanmar today, Ming Yu Hah, Amnesty International’s Deputy Campaigns Director for South East Asia and the Pacific, said the…
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Rohingya returns in Myanmar unthinkable until apartheid system is dismantled
In response to news that the governments of Myanmar and Bangladesh have signed an agreement to return close to a million Rohingya refugees currently in Bangladesh, Amnesty International’s Director for…
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State Department Acknowledges Ethnic Cleansing in Myanmar
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called the sustained and systemic attacks on the Rohingya population by the Myanmar military “ethnic cleansing” today in a long-overdue acknowledgment of the nature of…
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Report
Myanmar: Rohingya trapped in dehumanizing apartheid regime
The Rohingya people in Myanmar are trapped in a vicious system of state-sponsored, institutionalized discrimination that amounts to apartheid, said Amnesty International today as it publishes a major new analysis…
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Press Release
Amnesty International Responds to Tillerson’s Myanmar Meetings
In response to Secretary Tillerson’s meetings with government and military officials in Myanmar, Joanne Lin, national director of advocacy and government relations at Amnesty International USA, issued the following.
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