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Yasmin Ullah, who founded and runs the Rohingya Maiyafuinor Collaborative Network from Vancouver, Canada, poses during an interview with AFP in Jakarta on April 8, 2026.
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Rohingya activist urges Muslim world to oppose Myanmar junta

Rohingya activist Yasmin Ullah urges Muslim world to oppose Myanmar junta after filing genocide complaint in Indonesia against president-elect.

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08 April, 2026
General view taken at the start of the first hearing at the International Court of Justice in which Myanmar is accused of committing genocide against the country's Muslim minority, the Rohingya, in the Hague on January 12, 2026
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Rohingya 'targeted for destruction' by Myanmar, ICJ hears

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12 January, 2026
Kyaw Tint Swe (L), former Union Minister of Myanmar, attends the ruling of the International Court of Justice in The Hague, on January 23, 2020 in the lawsuit filed by The Gambia against Myanmar in which Myanmar is accused of genocide against Rohingya Muslims.
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Landmark Myanmar Rohingya genocide case to open at UN top court 

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12 January, 2026
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Myanmar junta stages election after five years of civil war

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28 December, 2025
The Rohingya are fleeing genocide in Myanmar
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Boat with Rohingya migrants sinks off Malaysia, hundreds missing

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10 November, 2025
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi gives an interview with reporters in Damascus
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In Sudan, 'never again' has proved untrue: UNHCR chief

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22 September, 2025
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UN warns scenes in Myanmar mirror 2017 atrocities

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02 September, 2025
ASEAN leaders called for inclusive engagement to build trust and peace after years of conflict and political turmoil [Getty]
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ASEAN leaders agree US tariff deals should not harm members 

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27 May, 2025
Amid quake rubble, Myanmar’s Thingyan festival begins in silence [Getty]
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Myanmar quake victims mark new year camped in ruins

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13 April, 2025
People sort through the rubble of a collapsed building in Mandalay on April 5, 2025, following the March 28 earthquake. (Photo by ZAW HTUN/AFP via Getty Images)
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UN calls for Myanmar support as quake death toll reaches 3,354

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05 April, 2025
Rescuers search for survivors trapped in the collapsed Sky Villa Condominium building in Mandalay on March 29, 2025, a day after an earthquake struck central Myanmar. (Photo by SAI AUNG MAIN/AFP via Getty Images)
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Global aid effort begins for Myanmar quake relief

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29 March, 2025
A rescuer carries equipment as a team searches through the rubble of a destroyed building looking for survivors in Mandalay on March 29, 2025, a day after an earthquake struck central Myanmar. (Photo by SAI AUNG MAIN/AFP via Getty Images)
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Myanmar quake toll passes 1,600 as rescuers dig for survivors

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29 March, 2025
This photo shows a building collapsing in Mandalay on March 28, 2025, during an earthquake
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Deaths confirmed as 'mass casualty' quake hits Myanmar, Thailand

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28 March, 2025
One million Rohingya live in refugee camps after escaping a 2017 military crackdown [Getty]
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Funding cuts force WFP to stop aid to one million in Myanmar

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14 March, 2025
The president of the Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK), Maung Tun Khin, (L) and Argentine human rights lawyer Tomas Ojea Quintana are seen outside a federal court in Buenos Aires on December 16, 2021.
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Argentina issues warrants for Myanmar officials over 'genocide'

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15 February, 2025
The CPJ documents Israel has arrested a total of 75 journalists in Palestine [GETTY]
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CPJ finds Israel one of the top three jailers of journalists

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17 January, 2025
Myanmar's junta chief military Min Aung Hlaing arrives to deliver a speech during a ceremony to mark the country's Armed Forces Day in Naypyidaw
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ICC prosecutor Khan seeks arrest warrant for Myanmar junta chief

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27 November, 2024
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Moroccan YouTuber disappears in Myanmar’s Golden Triangle region

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05 June, 2024
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UN urges more international focus on Rohingya refugees

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17 October, 2023
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Rohingya pregnant women and children suffer amid food cuts

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24 August, 2023
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Many Myanmar Rohingya Muslims killed by cyclone: aid group

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16 May, 2023