The winners of the 2019 Pulitzer Prizes were announced at Columbia University in New York City on Monday. Pulitzers are regarded as the highest honor a journalist can receive. Reporters and outlets that covered mass shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and[Read More…]
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Myanmar jails 2 Reuters reporters investigating Rohingya killings for 7 years
Two Reuters reporters were jailed on Monday for seven years for violating a state secrets act during their reporting of the Rohingya crisis, a court said, in the case that has drawn outrage for its attack on media freedom. The two journalists were being tried since 2017 for breaching Myanmar’s[Read More…]
UN blames Facebook for spreading hate speech against Rohingya
Geneva: The UN human rights experts have blamed Facebook for playing a key role in spreading hate speech against the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. Marzuki Darusman, Chairman of the UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar, said on Monday that the social media platform had played a “determining role” in Myanmar.[Read More…]
Over 800,000 Rohingya in B’desh in ‘most acute’ situation: UN
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Filippo Grandi has told the UN Security Council that over 800,000 Myanmar Rohingya were probably in the “most acute” situation. Grandi made the remarks about Rohingya refugees, as in comparison to 65 million to 66 million people forcibly displaced in the world, Xinhua news[Read More…]
Crisis in Rakhine reaches beyond Myanmar’s borders, says UN expert
A UN special rapporteur on human rights has urged the Security Council to take decisive action to resolve the crisis in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, noting that the crisis “reaches beyond Myanmar’s borders”. “The crisis in Rakhine state has not only been decades in the making but has for some time[Read More…]
Solution to Rohingya crisis should be found in Myanmar itself: Bangladesh foreign secretary
Bangladesh foreign secretary, Shahidul Haque, on Friday said that the solution to the Rohingya crisis has to be found in Myanmar as it originated there. “Our position is very clear, the problem has been created in Myanmar and the solution has to be found in Myanmar,” Haque said at a[Read More…]
Myanmar allocates additional funds to upgrade Bangladesh border amid Rohingya crisis
Amid ongoing Rohingya crisis, the Myanmar government has allocated additional funds of 20 billion kyats ($14 million) to urgently revamp the spoiled portion of the border with Bangladesh, said an official statement. For 2017-18 fiscal year, over 8 billion kyats had been given for the task, reports Xinhua news agency.[Read More…]