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A Burmese national security advisor told diplomats in Copenhagen that a proposal to review the 1982 Citizenship Law, that effectively renders the Rohingya stateless, could not be implemented.
The petition is the latest indication of the challenges ahead for Bangladesh and Burma as they try to engineer the return of up to 655,500 refugees.
Burma will not allow those Rohingyas who have recently fled the country to return unless they can show proof of Burmese citizenship, said National Security Advisor Thaung Tun.
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“It’s important to work on granting citizenship to the Muslim community, which has been deprived of citizenship for many years,” Grandi told reporters in Bangkok.
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ANP accuses regional immigration chief of issuing a national ID card to a “Bengali” woman who was born to non-Burmese parents.
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A programme targeting displaced Rohingya communities in Arakan has been launched.
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Burma does not consider the Rohingya citizens, rendering them effectively stateless, while denying it discriminates against them or that they are fleeing persecution.
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Arakan representatives spoke of their frustrations at the close of the day’s parliamentary proceedings.
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The non-binding draft resolution, co-sponsored by the US and other Western states, was adopted by consensus at a UN General Assembly human rights forum.
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Some of the world’s most influential voices on Burma participated in an urgently organised conference on the Rohingya migrant crisis in Oslo on Tuesday.
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At a meeting with a US delegation in Naypyidaw, govt leaders say they will take back Rohingya boat people – but only if they can prove Burmese citizenship.
The UN has adopted a resolution urging Burma to grant citizenship to its Rohingya Muslim minority, ramping up pressure on Naypyidaw to scrap a controversial identity plan. The measure was[…]
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DVB speaks to Dr. Aye Maung following his appointment as RNP chairman. He discusses the recent RNP conference and the party’s policies, as well as addressing the status of Rohingyas (or Bengalis) in Arakan State.
Burma has granted citizenship to 209 Muslims displaced by communal violence in Arakan State, according to Reuters citing immigration officials. Some 40 of that number were reported to be Rohingyas,[…]
About 170 appeals for citizenship have cleared Arakan State immigration and await Union-level approval, officials from the western state said. Just over 1,000 stateless Muslims living in a displacement camp[…]
Four journalists and the CEO of Unity Weekly are due in court in Monday charged with revealing state secrets; meanwhile an Italian town awards them honorary citizenship for “exceptional and humanitarian reasons”.
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A programme to register stateless Muslim IDPs to determine whether they are eligible for citizenship is continuing at Myebon camp in Arakan State.
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A pilot programme aimed at verifying the citizenship of Muslim residents in Arakan State was carried out in in Myebon Township.
In his New Year’s message, Monsignor Charles Bo called for unity between the “different souls” of “this wonderful nation” and said those born in the country should be granted citizenship.
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The UN General Assembly’s human rights committee passes a resolution urging Burma to give the stateless Rohingya minority equal access to citizenship and to crack down on Buddhist violence against them and other Muslims in the country.
Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has called for a review of Burma’s controversial 1982 citizenship law, which renders the Muslim Rohingya stateless, during a trip to Japan this week
The United Nations humanitarian coordinator Ashok Nigam spoke to DVB about the IDP camps, aid and citizenship in Arakan state.
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations cannot pressure Burma on the issue of Rohingya citizenship, but should step up humanitarian assistance to Arakan state, Secretary-General Surin Pitsuwan has said.
Aung San Suu Kyi and the NLD must play a leading role in repealing the authoritarian 1982 citizenship law that rendered the Rohingya stateless in Burma, a group of human rights organisations urged on Monday
Democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi has called for “precise laws on citizenship” and “uncorrupted border vigilance” to address ongoing sectarian strife
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Thousands of Muslim migrant workers from Burma risk being fined and deported from Thailand after June 30, under a new law that campaigners say may increase abuse and trafficking.
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The UN and Bangladesh have started formally registering hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees who have fled a military crackdown in Burma.
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With 1.2 million refugees originating from Burma and tens of thousands more uprooted inside the country, the Southeast Asian nation was the source of the fourth-largest population of displaced people worldwide at the end of 2017, a new report by the UN refugee agency.
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Aung San Suu Kyi has told the UN “time and patience” is needed to resolve divisions between Muslim and Buddhist communities in Arakan State.
