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Rohingya refugees and humanitarians have faced unprecedented challenges in 2023, including fires, cyclones, and ongoing threats of monsoon-related disasters, putting their resilience to the test. Photo: IOM

IOM Calls for Increased Support, Sustainable Solutions for Rohingya Refugees

Aug 25, 2023 | World: Southeast Asia

Geneva/Cox rsquo;s Bazar ndash; As the Rohingya crisis marks its sixth year in Bangladesh, the plight of nearly ...

Aug 22, 2023 | World: Southeast Asia

Thailand's former Prime Minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, was on Tuesday jailed upon returning to the country after 15 years ...

Jun 24, 2023 | World: Southeast Asia

Geneva, 24 June 2023: Press Emblem Campaign, the global media safety and rights body, while expressing its concern over ...

Jun 22, 2023 | World: Southeast Asia

In an escalating international concern, Hoang Thi Minh Hong, a renowned climate activist and scholar of the Obama Fo ...

Jun 22, 2023 | World: Southeast Asia

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has issued a strong call for Philippine authorities to expedite their pur ...

Jun 16, 2023 | World: Southeast Asia

According to a recent report by the World Health Organization (WHO), approximately one in six individuals aged 60 or ...

Jul 25, 2022 | World: Southeast Asia

France on Monday strongly condemned the execution of four political prisoners in Myanmar, calling the killings a majo ...

Feb 28, 2022 | World: Southeast Asia

With the escalation of the Myanmar military's attacks on several civilian areas in Chin state, there have been reports o ...

Dec 6, 2021 | World: Southeast Asia

Myanmar's military rulership pardoned to two years a four-year jail term it had given earlier in the day to ousted lea ...

Oct 20, 2021 | World: Southeast Asia

Myanmar has adopted standardised packaging (or plain packaging) of all tobacco products. Plain packaging is among th ...

Oct 20, 2021 | World: Southeast Asia

Myanmar has adopted standardised packaging (or plain packaging) of all tobacco products. Plain packaging is among th ...

Apr 11, 2021 | World: Southeast Asia

A military crackdown on protesters in Myanmar is continuing with reports of at least 80 people killed in ongoing violenc ...

Apr 4, 2021 | World: Southeast Asia

French energy giant Total will not halt gas production in coup-hit Myanmar, its CEO said Sunday, despite growing calls f ...

Mar 30, 2021 | World: Southeast Asia

The death toll in the Myanmar military's crackdown against protesters has passed 500, as armed rebel groups on Tuesday t ...

Feb 15, 2021 | World: Southeast Asia

Growing number of civil society networks for peace, health and human rights from around the world are unifying their cal ...