The Myanmar brutal regime has viciously persecuted the Rohingya Muslims. The Myanmar regime does not even recognize Rohingya Muslims as legal citizens of Myanmar. They cannot travel without a permit. At the time of marriage they must give written assurance that they will not have more than two children. They are subjected to forced labor, as they have to work one day at any military or national project and one…

On Tuesday 12th May, the Malaysian and Indonesian governments announced that they would be refusing entry to boatloads of desperate and hungry Rohingya and Bangladeshi men, women and children fleeing persecution in Myanmar or dire poverty in their lands. Tan Kok Kwee, First Admiral of Malaysia’s Maritime Enforcement Agency said, “We won’t let any foreign boats come in” and that the navy would provide “provisions and send them away.”

On Monday, 18/05/2015 inside the Bermoral City Court of Sverdlovsk County, the verdict was passed in the case of “the call for Muslims not to celebrate non- Islamic holidays”. The court sentenced Elvira Sultana Khamitova to 120 hours of forced labor for spreading a leaflet in social networks regarding the prohibition of Muslims celebrating the traditional Russian festival of the New Year.

At the end of her visit to Sudan, the Special Rapporteur of the United Nations on Violence against Women, Rashida Manjoo, gave a press statement, and in it she expressed her appreciation to the Government of Sudan for inviting her for this visit. And she said that despite the laws, policies and programs, violence against women is still a worrying issue, a large number of women and girls living in…