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Human Rights Watch (HRW)  expressed concern Monday for Rohingya refugees living in refugee camps in Bangladesh amidst reports of the government’s potential plan to move the refugees to an island. A second statement  from HRW Monday called for Bangladesh to move refugees to safer ground and relocate refugees to areas where they can have more [...]

The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC)  on Wednesday appointed a three-member legal panel to conduct a war crimes probe into the alleged Israeli human rights violations on the Gaza border. The resolution to “urgently dispatch an independent, international commission of inquiry was backed on Friday. Twenty-nine members of the council voted for, 14 members abstained, [...]

The International Crimes Tribunal of Bangladesh (ICTB) sentenced  four people to death on Tuesday for crimes against humanity during the country’s 1971 war of independence  from Pakistan. The convicts, all over the age of 65 at the time the judgment was passed, were charged with committing genocide, murder, abduction and torture from May 7 through [...]

The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar Yanghee Lee  on Wednesday called for  for the Human Rights Council (HRC) to support an investigation by the International Criminal Court (ICC)  into alleged human rights abuses against the Rohingya community. “I strongly recommend the persons allegedly responsible for the violations of international human rights law and [...]

To commemorate World Refugee Day on Wednesday the charity Plan International released a 44-page report detailing the adversity and hardship that adolescent Rohingya girls experience in refugee camps in the Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. While the majority of adolescent girls report feeling safer in the refugee camps than in Myanmar, there remains a substantial fear of [...]

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein condemned the government of Bangladesh on Wednesday for the killing of suspected drug offenders by security forces in the country. The High Commissioner responded to reports that 130 individuals had been killed in three weeks and thousands arrested after the government proclaimed a zero-tolerance policy [...]

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees and the UN Development Programme signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the government of Myanmar on Wednesday that will give the UN agencies access to the Rakhine state. UN officials state that the memorandum will lay the foundation for the safe return of the Rohingya refugees. [...]

The Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Yanghee Lee, on Monday expressed concern over violence against civilians in Myanmar's Kachin State. A reported 10 civilians were killed and several more severely injured and wounded...

Here's the international legal news we covered this week: The foreign secretary of Bangladesh and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Friday to cement their agreement that Rohingya...

The foreign secretary of Bangladesh and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Friday to cement their agreement that Rohingya refugees should be able to voluntarily return to Myanmar...