The UN special rapporteur for Myanmar, Yanghee Lee has said she is troubled to hear reports of building new bases by Myanmar military in the Rakhine state. Addressing the concluding session of an international conference on the persecution suffered by the Rohingya Muslim minority in New York on ...

DHAKA: The repatriation of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who fled violence in Myanmar will not begin as planned, Bangladesh said Monday, with authorities admitting “a lot of preparation” was still needed. Dhaka had been due to start the huge process on January 23, after ...

The UN independent investigator into human rights in Myanmar has been barred from visiting the country for the rest of her tenure.UN special rapporteur Yanghee Lee in a statement said she had been due to visit in January to assess human rights across Myanmar but Myanmar had now told her it would ...