Rohingya crisis one year on: Q & A
August 23, 2018
Saturday 25th August marks the first anniversary of the beginning of a pre-planned military offensive against the Rohingya population in Burma, using the pretext of attacks by a small armed...
Myanmar authorities must be brought before International Criminal Court, say Southeast Asian lawmakers
August 23, 2018
Press Release from ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights JAKARTA More than 130 lawmakers from across Southeast Asia today demanded the international community bring officials in Myanmar to justice for atrocity...
Rohingya crisis one year on: Business as usual for EU
August 20, 2018
By Mark Farmaner, Director of Burma Campaign UK When Min Aung Hlaing, head of the Burmese military, launched his military offensive against Rohingya civilians in August 2017, there was international outrage....
UN Security Council Members must refer Burma to the International Criminal Court – Karen communities worldwide
July 30, 2018
Karen communities worldwide join the call from Kachin and other ethnic people of Burma for the United Nations Security Council to refer Burma to the International Criminal Court. As long...
Now or Never – Is Time Running Out For Rohingya to get Citizenship?
July 23, 2018
The denial of citizenship to the Rohingya people is one of the foundation stones which underpins prejudice and violence against the Rohingya. Their right of citizenship is one of the...
Jeremy Hunt needs to conduct a wholesale review of British policy on Burma
July 12, 2018
By Mark Farmaner, Director, Burma Campaign UK Following the military offensive against the Rohingya in October 2016, in which around 80,000 Rohingya fled to Bangladesh and there were credible reports...
The refugee’s right to return home
June 26, 2018
By Paul Sztumpf Refugee researcher, Burma Campaign UK `The right of return’ is a fundamental right of all refugees, to voluntarily return to their country of origin or of citizenship and...
Burma Government Must Address Root Causes of Decades-long Civil War Before Discussion of IDP Return
June 25, 2018
Statement by Ei Tu Hta IDP Supporting Committee Statement in Burmese here. The decades-long offensives waged against ethnic nationalities by the Burmese military has created a humanitarian crisis in Burma....
Questions hang over the UN’s secret Rohingya deal with the government of Burma
June 8, 2018
By Mark Farmaner, Director, Burma Campaign UK Serious questions and doubts hang over the new MOU signed between the United Nations and the government of Burma on a supposed framework...