The Stateless Rohingya Blog

Rohingya that the World Forget On April 24, 2012, Professor Dr. Amara Phongsaphit, Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission of Thailand was invited by the Thai Public Broadcasting Service (Thai PBS) to be a resource person in a seminar, ‘Rohingya that the World Forget,’ convened by the Thai PBS’ Social Capital Network Division, Social Capital Bureau, at Building A, Thai PBS Headquarters in Bangkok with an objective to build up awareness on the existence of Rohingya people through seminar and public media, and to look for solutions to problems faced by this people together.

Maungdaw, Arakan State:  Two Rohingya dead bodies -struck by thunder- were not allowed to bury by police without paying money to them on April 21 in Maungdaw Township, according to village administration office member.

Muslims living in Maungdaw Township in western Burma’s Arakan State have been allowed to travel freely within their own township without prior approval starting from 21 April.

စစ္ကိုင္းတိုင္း မုံရြာခ႐ိုင္ ဆားလင္းႀကီးၿမိဳ႕နယ္အတြင္းရွိ ေၾကးနီစီမံကိန္း ဧရိယာ၌ ပါ၀င္သည့္ လယ္ေျမဧက ၇၈၀၀ ေက်ာ္ကုိ အာဏာ ပိုင္မ်ားက အဓမၼသိမ္းယူထားၿပီး လယ္ပိုင္ရွင္မ်ား ေနထိုင္ေသာ ေက်းရြာမ်ားကိုလည္း ေျပာင္းေရႊ႕ခိုင္းေနေၾကာင္း သိရ သည္။

Fourteen human rights groups have called on the Asean Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) to take the necessary steps to ensure the process of drafting the Asean Human Rights Declaration (AHRD) is transparent and fully consultative with civil society organizations in the Asean region.

( Mizzima ) – Aung San Suu Kyi took the Burmese Parliament’s oath of office on Wednesday, marking another step in her amazing journey from political detainee to the most prominent member of Burma’s newly formed lawmaking body. Aung San Suu Kyi takes the oath of office for members of the Burmese Parliament in Naypyitaw. Photo: MIzzima

Burma plans to conduct its first census in 31 years, a key step in political reforms that could have a big impact on the country’s marginalized minorities. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday in a press conference with Aung San Suu Kyi. Photo: Mizzima Burma's minister of immigration and population Khin Yi signed a letter confirming his government's commitment to conduct the nationwide census by 2014.