Discrimination/violence against women: reports of violations in Arakan (Rakhine) State

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Description: ":ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်တွင်းက ကျေးရွာတချို့မှာ ဒီဇင်ဘာလအတွင်း ထူးခြားဖြစ်စဉ်များ ဆက်တိုက်ဖြစ်လာပြီး လူမျိုးရေး ပဋိပက္ခပုံစံ ဦးတည်တဲ့ အခြေနေမျိုးတွေ ဆက်တိုက်ဖြစ်လာတာတွေ့နေရတယ်လို့ ရက္ခိုင်အမျိုးသားအဖွဲ့ချုပ် ထုတ်ပြန်ချက်မှာတွေ့ရပါတယ်။ ဒီဇင်ဘာလ ၉ ရက်နေ့ မြောက်ဦးမှာ ညအချိန် မီးတိုက်ဖျက်ဆီးခဲ့ပြီး အဲ့ဒီနေ့မှာပဲ မြောက်ဦး လောင်းကြက်ရွာနား ရိတ်သိမ်းထားတဲ့ စပါးတွေကို တမင်သက်သက် မီးရှို့ဖျက်ဆီးတာတွေ ပြုလုပ်လာတယ်လို့ဆိုပါတယ်။ ဒါအပြင် ဒီဇင်ဘာလ ၁၁၊ ၁၂၊ ၁၃ နဲ့ ၁၄ရက်နေ့တွေမှာ ကျေးရွာတချို့ မုဒိန်းမှုနဲ့ မီးတိုက် ထူးခြားဖြစ်စဉ်တွေ ဆက်တိုက်ဖြစ်ပွားခဲ့တယ်လု့ိသိရပါတယ်။ ဒီလို ထူးခြားဖြစ်စဉ်တွေ ဆက်တိုက် ဖြစ်ပွားနေတာကြောင့် ကျေးရွာ မြို့များရှိ လူငယ်များအနေနဲ့ ပြည်သူ့အသက်အိုးအိမ် စည်းစိမ် လုံခြုံရေးနဲ့ မီးဘေးအန္တရာယ်ကင်းဝေးဖို့အတွက် လူစိမ်းအဝင်အထွက်များ သတိထားစောင့်ကြည့်ဖို့ ရက္ခိုင်အမျိုးသားအဖွဲ့ချုပ်က တိုက်တွန်းထားပါတယ်။..."
Source/publisher: United League of Arakan
2021-12-17
Date of entry/update: 2021-12-18
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Topic: atrocity crime – Myanmar – International Crime Tribunals – Rohingya – culture of impunity
Topic: atrocity crime – Myanmar – International Crime Tribunals – Rohingya – culture of impunity
Description: "What instruments and mechanisms are available to harness the ‘political will’ to pursue justice for the allegations of ‘atrocity crime’ in Rakhine, Myanmar? Analysing country’s ratification trend, declarations upon ratification on relevant global instruments, and interactions with the un on human rights issues, this paper reveals the ‘mind’ of Myanmar and its obligations. Exploring the mechanism of four International Crime Tribunals (icts), it outlines the pathways to pursue justice. Revealing the inadequacies of current actions by key state actors resulting in invidious outcomes that privilege impunity for atrocity crimes, the paper suggests ways to harness the political will to pursue justice. This paper contends that the establishment of an ict for the trial of atrocity crimes in Rakhine (ictm-R) would be best facilitated by: a consensus mandate to prosecute individuals and not the state; precisely defined jurisdiction; and provisions to integrate the host nation’s apparatus, buttressed by the advocacy of the right groups and media..."
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Source/publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers (Netherlands)
2019-00-00
Date of entry/update: 2021-04-16
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Description: " At least 15 women and children drowned and more than 50 others were missing after a boat overloaded with Rohingya refugees sank off southern Bangladesh as it tried to reach Malaysia Tuesday, officials said. Some 138 people — mainly women and children — were packed on a trawler barely 40 feet long trying to cross the Bay of Bengal, a coast guard spokesman told AFP. "It sank because of overloading. The boat was meant to carry maximum 50 people. The boat was also loaded with some cargo," another coast guard spokesman, Hamidul Islam, added..."
Source/publisher: "CBS News" (New York)
2020-02-11
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-14
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Description: "Two women, one pregnant, were killed and seven other people were wounded when shells hit a Rohingya village in Myanmar's Rakhine state. The army rejected accusations from a local lawmaker, a villager and the Arakan Army (AA), a rebel group, that the Myanmar military was responsible for the shelling at Kin Taung, two days after the United Nations' highest court ordered Myanmar to protect the Rohingya. Maung Kyaw Zan, a member of the national parliament for Buthidaung township in northern Rakhine state, said shells fired from a nearby battalion hit Kin Taung village in the middle of the night. "There was no fighting, they just shot artillery to a village without a battle," he told Reuters by phone, adding it was the second time this year that civilians had been killed. Soe Tun Oo, a Rohingya villager living a mile from the village, told Reuters by phone that two houses were destroyed. A military statement confirmed the deaths, but blamed the AA, a Rakhine ethnic rebel group which has been fighting for greater autonomy in the state for more than a year. Two military spokesmen did not answer calls seeking comment. "AA terrorists committed firing at Bengali villages with the use of heavy weapons and planting mines," the statement said. The Arakan Army said in a statement on its website that there was "ample evidence" that the army committed the killings without giving specific details. It accused Myanmar's forces of "deliberate, false and misleading lies" aimed at discrediting the group. Reuters was unable to independently confirm the details of the incident. At a press conference on Feb 3, the army objected to the story about the deaths that Reuters had published on Jan 25, saying the account was biased. It referred specifically to the headline on the story, which blamed the army for the deaths, citing the member of parliament. It said it had filed a complaint to the Myanmar Press Council (MPC), which adjudicates disputes between authorities and news media..."
Source/publisher: "CNA" ( Singapore)
2020-02-04
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-04
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Description: "Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, has a population of around 51 million people. The Burman ethnic group constitutes around two-thirds of this figure and controls the military and the government. But there are also more than 135 ethnic groups in the country, each with their own culture. Many of them have become internally displaced by government moves to exploit land, provoking long-standing friction. In fact, the conflict between Myanmar's ethnic minorities and the ruling Burmese majority represent one of the world's longest ongoing conflicts. One group, the Muslim Rohingya, are not recognised as an ethnic nationality of Myanmar, so they suffer from arguably the worst discrimination and human rights abuses of all. The Rohingya population is somewhere between one and two million and they are living mainly in Rakhine State in the north of the country. In this film, Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent Salam Hindawi goes to Myanmar to investigate the situation surrounding the Rohingya. Myanmar has been tightly controlled for decades and Hindawi has enormous difficulties gaining access to certain areas of the country that the government simply doesn't want anyone from outside to see..."
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Source/publisher: Al Jazeera English
2017-08-13
Date of entry/update: 2019-07-29
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Description: ''A few days after starting this job, in September 2017, I went to Diffa in Niger, on the border with Nigeria, a place to which huge numbers of people, most of them women and girls, had fled from the Boko Haram terrorists who were wreaking havoc in their homelands. I met a woman called Achaitou, and her four young children. They were living under a plastic sheet. Achaitou was terrified of violence, especially fearful that she and her daughters might be abducted by armed men roaming over the border. To protect them, she took her children into the bush every night, risking disease and snakebites. A few weeks later I was in Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh, listening to the stories of women who had fled the violence of the Myanmar authorities in Rakhine. Stories of being forced to watch as their husbands, sons and fathers were killed. And then being themselves subject to the most extreme forms of rape and sexual violence. A few months later, I met Monga Albertine and her children, in a camp near the shores of Lake Tanganyika in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Her husband had been killed in tribal fighting, and she fled to try to save her children. She was trying to survive under a plastic sheet on a wet, slippery hillside, with not enough to eat, no school for the children and no way of making a living. And two months after that, I met a woman called Fatima in another camp in South Kordofan, in Sudan. She described the risks she took every day, gathering firewood in an area where women are frequently assaulted and raped. Most people caught up in humanitarian crises round the world are just like this. The majority are women and girls – although there are many men and boys too. Most of them are caught up in conflict. And the thing that makes it hardest to help them is how the men with guns and bombs behave in those conflicts. The world’s humanitarian agencies do a good job in saving lives and reducing suffering among people caught up in conflict. But we do not do a good enough job for women and girls. In my dozens of visits to countries caught up in crisis, the stories of women and girls have stuck with me more than any others. Stories of escape from violence and terror. Stories of barbaric acts committed against them. Stories of fear for their children and loved ones. But, stories also of resilience and hope. Women and girls defiant...''
Source/publisher: reliefweb
2019-02-22
Date of entry/update: 2019-02-24
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Language: English
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Description: SUBMISSION TO THE COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN (CEDAW) For the Examination of the combined 2nd and 3rd periodic State party Reports (CEDAW/C/MMR/3) -MYANMAR-....."...Rohingya women and girls suffer from the devastating consequences of brutal government policies implemented against their minority group but also from socio-religious norms imposed on them by their community, the combined impact of which dramatically impinges on their physical and mental well-being, with long-term effects on their development. a) State-sponsored persecution: The 1982 Citizenship Law renders the Rohingya stateless, thereby supporting arbitrary and discriminatory measures against them. Their freedom of movement is severely limited; they are barred from government employment; marriage restrictions are imposed on them; they are disproportionately subject to forced labour, extortion and other coercive measures. Public services such as health and education are appallingly neglected. Illiteracy is estimated at 80%. The compounded impact of these human right violations also results in household impoverishment and food insecurity, increasing the vulnerability of women and children....Rohingya women and girls are also subject to serious gender-based restrictions due to societal attitudes and conservative interpretation of religious norms in their male-dominated community. The birth of a son is always favoured. Girls? education is not valued and they are invariably taken out of school at puberty. Women and adolescent girls are usually confined to their homes and discouraged from participating in the economic sphere. They are systematically excluded from decision-making in community matters. Divorced women and widows are looked down upon, exposed to sexual violence and abandoned with little community support..."
Creator/author: Chris Lewa
Source/publisher: The Arakan Project
2008-10-00
Date of entry/update: 2009-01-30
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Language: English
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