Rohingya Muslims

UN special rapporteur for Myanmar says the country's de facto leader could be tried for crimes against humanity or genocide.

A visiting Myanmar minister said his country is "ready" to accept the ethnic Rohingya Muslims who had fled Rakhine state.

Three nominees for each of the eight photo contest categories, and – for the first time – a shortlist of six nominees for the World Press Photo of the Year.

Soldiers systematically disfiguring murdered Rohingya villagers with acid to deny culpability in war crimes, says Human Rights Watch.

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte feels "pity" about the situation Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi finds herself in regarding the Rohingya criticism.

The so-called "widow's camp" at Balukhali Rohingya refugee settlement consists of 50 red tents where no men or boys over the age of 10 years old are allowed.

Myanmar finally allowed the world's media in to Rakhine state to show they are ready to welcome back some of the Rohingya Muslims who fled the country.

The Myanmar military has admitted killing 10 Rohingya people whose bodies were found in a mass grave in Inn Dinn village.

Myanmar pledged that Rohingya Muslims who fled to Bangladesh by the hundreds of thousands would start their journey home later this month. However, few believe that will happen.

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Aisha, a 20-year-old mother, wants to educate her daughter but added that she "does not even know what will happen in the future".

The reporters had been working on stories about Mynamar's military crackdown on the Rohingya Muslim minority that has caused almost 650,000 people to flee to Bangladesh.

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Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is showcasing a new film, Human Flow, about 21st century refugees

Award-winning photojournalist Allison Joyce met Rohingya rape survivors at refugee camps in Bangladesh. IBTimes UK shares their harrowing stories.

Child marriage is common at Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh, where marrying off a young daughter means one less mouth to feed.

Pope Francis met a group of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh and pronounced the word he had so assiduously avoided only days earlier in Myanmar.

Pope's comments mark his first public denunciation of the military's "persecution" of Rohingya Muslims.

In his first public Mass in Myanmar, Pope Francis urged the country's long-suffering ethnic minorities to resist the temptation to exact revenge for the hurt they have endured.

The "will he or won't he?" issue has dominated debate before Francis' trip, which began Monday and ends with a youth rally in Dhaka on Dec. 2.

UN Migration Agency IOM estimates nearly one million Rohingya Muslims have so far taken refuge in makeshift settlements in different parts of Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar area.

Rohingya Muslims are being raped, dispossessed, killed in Myanmar. One cannot hear their stories without red rage.

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Rohingya Muslims live in segregated conditions in the Buddhist-majority Myanmar, where they are regarded as stateless people and unwelcome migrants from Bangladesh.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson blamed Myanmar's security forces and "local vigilantes" for what he called "intolerable suffering" by the Rohingya.

Rohingya live in segregated conditions in the Buddhist-majority Myanmar, where they are regarded as stateless people and unwelcome migrants from Bangladesh.

Award-winning photojournalist Kevin Frayer has returned to Bangladesh to document the hardships faced by the refugees, 60% of whom are children.

Wang Yi's visit follows talks with Bangladesh over the refugee disaster that has displaced 600,000 Muslims.

Rohingya Muslims who were injured while fleeing ethnic violence in Myanmar's northern Rakhine state showed their wounds to Reuters photographer Jorge Silva at refugee camps in Cox's Bazar.