IRNA Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday that Tehran was ready to help restore security and stability in Myanmar so that displaced Rohingya people could return to their homes.
Receiving credentials of Mukyu Ung, Myanmar's new Ambassador to Tehran, President Rouhani expressed hope that the efforts made by Myanmar's government would ...
Press TV - The UN says new government curbs on aid activities are affecting at least 50,000 peoplein Myanmars beleaguered Rakhine state, where persecuted Rohingya Muslims are mainly based.
Earlier this month, the so-called Rakhine State government blocked non-governmental organizations and UNagencies from travelling to rural areas in northern and ...
Press TV - Myanmars authorities have intercepted a boat with 93 Rohingya Muslims who were fleeing apartheid conditions at internal displacement camps in Rakhine State and heading to Malaysia.
Moe Zaw Latt, director of the government office in the southern coastal town of Dawei, said on Tuesday that Myanmars navy had seized the vessel and detained ...
Press TV - Various human rights activists and observers have roundly denounced Myanmars decision to appoint a commission of inquiry into widespread human rights abuses perpetrated with the states own backing and with the militarys direct participation against the Rohingya Muslim community.
The Myanmarese government said on Monday that it had ...
Press TV - An international group of medical experts says evidence collected from Rohingya Muslims' accounts proves that the highly-persecuted minority is subjected to systematic massacre and rape in Myanmar.
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) said in a report on Friday that the refugees accounts of being shot, hacked and injured by explosives were ...
Iranian Diplomacy- Rohingya Lawyer recently awarded the $1.1m Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity says his people are under serious discrimination just because they are Muslims, Iranian Diplomacys correspondent in Yerevan reports.
This years $1.1m Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity has been awarded to a Rohingya Lawyer. Kyaw Hla Aung was selected ...
Press TV- Myanmar has detained dozens of Rohingya Muslim refugees it claims voluntarily crossed the border back into their home country from Bangladesh over the last four months, pending a decision to pardon them before resettlement.
A total of 58 Rohingya refugees have returned to Myanmar after they could no longer find it tenable to live in ...
Press TV- Myanmars military chief claims that Rohingya Muslim refugees who return to the country will be safe as long as they stay in camp areas and model villages designated for them.
"There is no need to be worried about their security if they stay in the areas designated for them," Senior General Min Aung Hlaing told a United Nations delegation ...
Press TV- The United Nations (UN)s human rights chief has expressed strong suspicion that acts of genocide may have been carried out against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar since August 2017.
Addressing the UNHuman Rights Council on Wednesday, Zeid Raad al-Hussein further said that reports about the bulldozing of sites in Myanmar pointed to a deliberate ...
Press TV- A United Nations (UN) official says the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya Muslim community is continuing in Myanmar, despite denials by the government in Naypyidaw of any violence against the minority Muslims.
More than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled Myanmar since its military launched a bloody campaign against them across the western ...
Press TV- Bangladesh has formally handed over to Myanmar's Home Minister Lieutenant General Kyaw Swe a list of more than 8,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees as Dhaka moves to launch their repatriation under an agreement signed between the two countries last year.
The delivery of the list occurred after officials of the two countries held a meeting ...
Tasnim Myanmars de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi and commander-in-chief Min Aung Hlaing went on trial during a popular court in Tehran for their support for an ethnic cleansing campaign underway against the countrys minority Rohingya Muslims.
During the international symbolic court held at the Imam Sadeq (AS) University in the Iranian capital on ...
Press TV- The United Nations has warned that more than 100,000 Rohingya Muslims in Bangladeshi refugee camps will be in grave danger with the mid-year monsoon season on its way.
Landslide and flood risk hazard mapping reveal that at least 100,000 people are in grave danger from these risks and require relocation to new areas or within the neighborhoods ...
Press TV- The United Nations (UN) has called on Myanmar to grant aid agencies unhindered access to camps that have been built near the border with Bangladesh to house the tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees who face repatriation from Bangladesh.
The Taung Pyo Letwe refugee camp, built by Myanmaroutside the town of Maungdaw in Rakhine ...
IRNA The situation of the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar is very serious, an Iranian diplomat said Sunday urging the global community to solve the crisis and remove the refugees' concerns.
It is necessary that Myanmar, Bangladesh and the global community make an effort to solve the Rohingya crisis, Mohsen Mohammadi, Iran's Ambassador Extraordinary and ...
Press TV- Amnesty International has strongly denounced the first admission by Myanmar's military that its soldiers executed Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state, saying it is just the "tip of the iceberg".
James Gomez, Amnestys regional director for Southeast Asia and the Pacific, said on Thursday that "this grisly admission is a sharp departure ...
FNA- The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) reported that more than 60,000 Rohingya children remain nearly forgotten, trapped in appalling camps in central Rakhine where the shelters teeter on stilts above garbage and excrement.
Partners have identified about 20 children separated from their families during the violence but estimate the total ...
Press TV - Myanmars de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has conspicuously avoided talking about reports of Rohingya Muslim women and girls being raped by military forces and Buddhist militia in the western Rakhine State during a recent meeting with a senior UN official.
UN special envoy on sexual violence in conflict, Pramila Patten, raised the ...
MNA The office of the Permanent representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to New York explained the reason for Irans abstention from voting on the resolution against Myanmar.
The office of the Permanent representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to New York issued a statement concerning Irans abstention from voting on the resolution ...
Press TV - The United Nations General Assembly has called on Myanmar to halt its military campaignagainst Rohingya Muslims.
On Sunday, a resolution forwarded by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) was adopted by a vote of 122 to 10 with 24 abstentions.
It calls for Myanmar to grant aid workers access and to give Rohingya Muslims ...