Search Results  for : "MYANMAR"

Launching the report on human rights in Myanmar, UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk said, “We are faced here with a system of ruthless repression designed to coerce and subjugate its people and to erode a society so that the narrow interests of a kleptocratic elite are preserved.” UNTV CH

Cutting food loss and waste while increasing income — this has proven possible in Thailand, thanks to some simple technical innovations in the processing of germinated brown rice. FAO

Top UN-appointed independent rights experts maintained at the UN Human Rights Council that serious international crimes continue to be inflicted against the people in Myanmar by the country’s military junta and affiliate militias, while armed conflict has intensified substantially. UNTV CH

Executive Director of Education Cannot Wait, Yasmine Sherif, said that an illiterate nation can never recover from war, manage climate change, end extreme poverty, or provide basic services. UNIFEED

UN chief António Guterres commended ASEAN’s vital role in building bridges of understanding all over the world, reiterating that “we need it in a world that is increasingly multipolar” and that requires strong multilateral institutions based on equity, solidarity, and universality. ASEAN SUMMIT HOST BROADCASTER

UN Human Rights Office spokesperson Jeremy Laurence said that the enormity of online scam trafficking in Southeast Asia is difficult to estimate because of the clandestine nature and gaps in the official response. UNTV CH

Marking the six years since the forced mass displacement of Rohingya people and other communities from Myanmar’s Rakhine State, spokesperson Florencia Soto Nino-Martinez noted that “Rohingya people remain displaced domestically and abroad, including around one million Rohingya in Bangladesh.” UNIFEED

Some members of the Security Council called again for the full implementation of UN Security Council resolution 2669 and underlined their commitment to “using all tools at the Council’s disposal to support ASEAN’s efforts to find a peaceful solution” to the crisis in Myanmar. UNIFEED

Against the odds of displacement, fires burning down learning centres, and Cyclone Mocha’s wrath, classrooms in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh are filling up with children excited about the first day of school. UNICEF

The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) today said that Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar are facing hunger after the latest ration cuts, informed a UN spokesperson. UNIFEED / FILE