Asia
Thousands of Children’s Lives at Stake as ‘Indirect Victims’ of Burmese Crackdown On Rohingya Muslims, UN Warns
Sara Perria
Fears are growing for the lives of several thousand children in northwest Burma suffering from severe malnutrition and lack of medical care but...
Activists Push Global Corporates to Help Myanmar’s Rohingyas
Activists this week have sent an open letter asking the major corporate investor conglomerate Unilever, which owns two factories near the capital Yangon, to...
Sold Into Marriage – How Rohingya Girls End Up As Child Brides in Malaysia
The teenager, who is not being named by Reuters because she is still only 13, is like hundreds of Rohingya girls escaping persecution, violence...
Why Is It Proving So Difficult to Supply Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims with Aid?
ELEANOR ROSS
When a ship crammed with 2,200 tons of rice, emergency supplies and aid-workers tried to dock at Yangon port on 10 February, it arrived...
Pope Francis Isssues Stinging Criticism of Myanmar’s Treatment of Rohingya
“They have been suffering for years, they have been tortured, killed simply because they wanted to live their culture and their Muslim faith,” the...