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Meta aims to address human rights impact amid Rohingya genocide row

The 83-page report, covering 2020 and 2021, includes insights and actions from human rights due diligence on products, countries and responses to emerging crises

Rohingyas engaged in arms, drug, big threat to Bangladesh: PM Hasina

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday asked how long could her country bear such a huge burden of more than 1 million Rohingya refugees

Delhi BJP accuses AAP of supporting Rohingya, Bangladeshi immigrants

The BJP's Delhi unit on Sunday passed a resolution condemning the AAP government's "support" to the illegal Rohingya and Bangladeshi immigrants in the city

Jain's arrest, Rohingyas issues to dominate Delhi BJP executive meet

Arrest of Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain, Bangladeshi and Rohingyas issues are expected to figure predominantly in Delhi BJP executive meet which will get underway on June 11.

AAP nervous over demolition drive against illegal Rohingyas in Delhi: BJP

Delhi BJP president Adesh Gupta charged that opposition parties were giving a "political colour to the removal of rioters' encroachments

UN court hearings set to resume in Rohingya genocide case on Feb 21

In August 2017, Myanmar's military launched what it called a clearance campaign in Rakhine state in the country's west in response to an attack by a Rohingya insurgent group

Rohingya refugees sue Facebook for $150 bn over Myanmar violence

Lawyers filed a class-action lawsuit Monday in California saying Facebook's arrival in Myanmar helped spread hate speech, misinformation and incitement to violence

US announces $180 million humanitarian aid for Rohingya refugees

The United States has earmarked an additional USD 180 million to aid more than 700,000 Rohingya refugees from Myanmar.US State Department spokesperson Ned Price said that US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield announced nearly USD 180 million in additional humanitarian assistance for those affected by the Rakhine State/Rohingya refugee crisis in Burma, Bangladesh, and elsewhere in the region."With this new funding, our total humanitarian assistance for this response reaches more than USD 1.5 billion since August 2017, when more than 740,000 Rohingya were forced to flee ethnic cleansing and other horrific atrocities and abuses in Burma's [Myanmar's] Rakhine State to safety in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh," Price said in a press release on Wednesday.The state department lauded humanitarian actors for a strong and well-coordinated humanitarian response, which includes preventing and responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.Myanmar has been in turmoil since the coup on February

Myanmar's great leap back

The coup underlines the limits of quasi-democracy

UN: India searching for Rohingya refugees adrift without food, water

The boat was believed to have left Bangladesh two weeks ago and then broken down at sea

Bangladesh ups security along Myanmar border to prevent influx of Rohingyas

Bangladesh said on Wednesday that it has stepped up security along its border with Myanmar to prevent a fresh influx of Rohingyas

Almost 300 Rohingya found on beach in Indonesia's Aceh; evacuated by army

Almost 300 Rohingya Muslims were found on a beach in Indonesia's Aceh province on Monday and were evacuated by military, police and Red Cross volunteers, authorities said

Once-submerged island ready to house 100,000 Rohingya refugees: Bangladesh

Flood protection embankments, houses, hospitals and mosques have been built on Bhasan Char, or floating island, in the Bay of Bengal, officials said

Suu Kyi to defend Myanmar at The Hague over Rohingya genocide charges

The 74-year-old's international reputation has been tarnished by her silence over the plight of the Rohingya, and her defence of the same generals who once kept her under house arrest.

Myanmar frees soldiers jailed for killing Rohingyas after less than a year

The soldiers were freed in November last year, two inmates said, meaning they served less than one year of their 10-year prison terms for the killings at Inn Din village.

25 Myanmar nationals still lodged in Assam detention centres, say police

This comes after the state police deported seven Myanmar nationals who were living in India since the year 2012

For first time, India deports 7 illegal Rohingya immigrants to Myanmar

The illegal immigrants were detained in 2012 and since then they had been lodged in Cachar Central Jail in Assam's Silchar

SC allows deportation of seven Rohingya immigrants back to Myanmar

Seven Rohingyas were found by the competent court as illegal immigrants and Myanmar had accepted them as its citizens

US House passes resolution condemning 'ethnic cleansing' of Rohingyas

The House passed a resolution on Tuesday, urging immediate restoration of humanitarian access to the Rakhine state where unrest has forced over 600,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee to Bangladesh

SC to hear plea of Rohingyas against deportation on December 5

Two Rohingya immigrants Mohammad Salimullah and Mohammad Shaqir had approached the apex court opposing the Centre's decision.