Rohingya

Regional Rifts in Southeast Asia Stall Action on Myanmar as Atrocities Soar

• June 19, 2022

Among governments and international organizations worldwide there is a refrain that the catastrophic collapse of Myanmar is a regional problem to be solved primarily by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. The 10-member group, known as Asean, remains deeply split, however, and the fissure seems to be hardening. On one side of the arguments …

Asia, General Assembly, Secretary-General

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WORLDVIEWS

How Global Sanctions Can Be Better Targeted to End Sexual Violence in War

Daniel Salazar and Robert Nagel

• June 14, 2022

With the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict approaching on June 19, it is time for governments to push harder to impose targeted global sanctions against perpetrators of sexual violence in conflict. Conflict-related sexual violence is gaining renewed attention amid reports of sexual violence by Russian forces in Ukraine. While …

Gender Violence, Security Council, WORLDVIEWS

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Is Burma’s Army in Trouble? Yes, Says a Top Former UN Adviser on the Country

Barbara Crossette

• April 19, 2021

For more than a decade, from 2004 to 2017, Vijay Nambiar was a special adviser to United Nations secretaries-general Kofi Annan and Ban Ki-moon, charged with following events in Burma, which the military generals renamed Myanmar in 1989. A former deputy national security adviser to the government of India and Indian ambassador to the …

Human Rights, Myanmar

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WORLDVIEWS

Myanmar, Still Escaping the Shackles of the Past

Alan Doss

• February 9, 2021

GENEVA — In May 2016, Kofi Annan, the former United Nations secretary-general, received an unexpected request from a fellow Nobel peace laureate, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s civilian leader and state counselor. She asked him to lead a commission to advise the government on the stability and development of Rakhine State, a region …

Myanmar, WORLDVIEWS

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GEOPOLITICS

Rohingya Refugees Look to Washington and Find a Vacuum

Tino Calabia

• July 30, 2018

This August marks a year since a military crackdown forced at least 700,000 Rohingya to flee Myanmar for Bangladesh, joining hundreds of thousands of Rohingya who had already taken refuge there, totaling 1.1 million people encamped in Cox’s Bazar, according to a Bangladesh count done this July. But you would never know from the …

Asia, Geopolitics, Refugees, US Foreign Relations

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UN to Rohingya: You Can’t Go Home Safely Any Time Soon

Barbara Crossette

• July 15, 2018

Among refugee advocates there has been a growing concern that recent agreements among regional governments and the United Nations on a framework for mitigating the Rohingya crisis could prompt at least some of the million-plus people who have fled the deadly military pogrom in Myanmar to consider risking a return to try to rebuild …

Asia, Gender Violence, Human Rights, Refugees

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Religious Intolerance Surges Worldwide, US Studies Confirm

Barbara Crossette

• August 15, 2016

Burmese Buddhists attack Muslims and Christians. Indian Hindu zealots kill Muslims and Christians and trash their places of worship. In the Central African Republic, Muslims are driven from the country by Christians. The Middle East and parts of North Africa are aflame with sectarian violence, and religious minorities are the most vulnerable to persecution, …

Human Rights, Refugees

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As US Warms Up to Burma, Burmese Respond in Kind

Dulcie Leimbach

• May 24, 2013

Burma’s major moves toward liberalization and release from the vise of its military grip signal huge strides toward democracy, yet nothing in this long-isolated, mineral-endowed country is assured. Even as the nation branches out from its dependence on China and advances cordial relations with the United States — including a visit by President Thein …