Where traditional advocacy fails, a more creative approach is giving new life to Rohingya resistance across the globe.
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Hundreds of thousands of minority Muslims fled Myanmar in 2017 amid a government crackdown. Seven years on, they remain in refugee camps.
Six cases are testing international accountability mechanisms and showing how small countries like New Zealand can impact global justice.
While the International Court of Justice lacks enforcement powers, it can issue orders that could heighten international pressure on Israel to curtail some of its offensive in Gaza.
As conflicts last longer, the number of refugees and other displaced people is on the rise.
The International Criminal Court sets a high bar for prosecuting heads of state for crimes committed while they are in power.
Canada’s new Indo-Pacific strategy must include providing assistance to Rohingya women who have suffered sexual violence.
The situation in refugee camps in Bangladesh may offer some lessons for communities hosting Ukrainian refugees.
Myanmar’s democracy figurehead faces up to 100 years in prison.
What began in the 1940s as a revolutionary army created to liberate Myanmar from British colonial rule soon turned repressive. The country has been a military dictatorship on and off since 1962.
Despite having a woman leader, women are largely excluded from key positions of influence and leadership in Myanmar — a situation that helped the country’s military succeed in its recent coup.
The military coup may mark the end of Myanmar’s short-lived and fragile democracy, but it is galvanising growing protest.
The study of the Holocaust, as the ultimate example of genocide, allows teachers to raise the universal message of human rights abuses and mass violence.
The constitutional change needed to further democratise Myanmar is impossible without the military’s consent, so achieving major political transformation through the election alone seems unlikely.
In a country with 135 ethnic minorities, democratic elections have little meaning if the stateless, persecuted Rohingya people continue to be ethnically cleansed.
The International Court of Justice ordered Myanmar to protect its Rohingya minority and preserve any evidence relevant to the genocide charges against it. But compliance is not guaranteed.
Violence against religious minorities around the world prompted the United Nations to mark a day for the victims in 2019. Here is a roundup of some key events around the world.
Dozens of Muslim-majority countries are asking the UN’s International Criminal Court to investigate and prosecute a 2017 massacre in Myanmar that killed an estimated 10,000 Rohingya Muslims.
An estimated 500,000 Rohingya children, refugees from Myanmar, are growing up in Bangladesh in overcrowded camps with no access to formal education.
Equipped with rights, knowledge and skills, the global Rohingya diaspora is poised to be influential against the genocidal regime that seeks to erase their people.
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Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Dundee
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Associate Professor in International & Community Development, Deakin University
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Professor of Social Policy, University of South Wales
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Associate Professor of World Cultures and Languages, Northern Illinois University
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Assistant Professor, Department of Government, Cornell University
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Lecturer in Economics, Newcastle University
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Professor of Medicine, Monash University
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Professor of Law, Conflict and Global Development, University of Reading
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Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of St Andrews
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Research Fellow, Trinity College Dublin
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Pro Vice-Chancellor, University of Tasmania
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Professor and Director of the Centre for Defence and Security Studies, University of Manitoba
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Universitas Indonesia
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Associate Professor in International Development Studies, Dalhousie University
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Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow, Loughborough University