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How can you make your university take action to end genocide? Students and faculty have an honorable tradition of organizing to uphold human rights. By organizing to persuade your university to enact a policy to end genocide, you are following in the footsteps of similar campaigns, such as the South Africa anti-apartheid movement (1980s), Free … Read more
International Campaign for the Rohingya has joined fifteen NGOs on an open letter to the UN Secretary General following the publication of the inquiry into UN operations in Myanmar. The letter calls on the Secretary General to learn from the UN’s past failures in Myanmar and take bold action to strengthen support for human rights … Read more
How can you make your university take action to end genocide? One way would be to press your university to use the power of its investments. Educational institutions invest trillions of dollars, primarily through their endowments. As shareholders, universities are partial owners of thousands of publicly traded companies. Through those ownership stakes, unviersities can put … Read more
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Maryland Delegate Bilal Ali (Baltimore City – District 41) has introduced an historic new bill to ensure that Maryland spends and invests taxpayers’ money in a manner that reflects Maryland values of upholding human rights and opposition to genocide and crimes against humanity. The Maryland End Genocide Bill (HB 1787) will require … Read more
By Simon Billenness, Executive Director, International Campaign for the Rohingya We have an honorable American tradition of our cities and states upholding human rights. Now is the time for us to demand that our taxpayer dollars don’t contribute to genocide. During the American Revolution, town meetings adopted resolutions calling for a boycott of British-made goods. … Read more
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ARSA Ambush No Excuse For Further Violence Against Rohingya January 7, 2018 International Campaign for the Rohingya condemns the ambush on January 5, 2018, by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) of a military vehicle in Burma’s Rakhine State, which wounded five members of the Burmese security forces. Today, ARSA issued a … Read more
PRESS RELEASE November 7, 2017 International Campaign for the Rohingya (Malaysia) petitions Petronas to withdraw from Myanmar Petronas urged to withdraw to protest Myanmar’s repression and violence against the Rohingya Kuala Lumpur: The International Campaign for the Rohingya (ICR) has sent a petition to PETRONAS, calling for the company to stop operations or investments in … Read more
November 2, 2017 The Honorable Rex Tillerson Secretary of State U.S. Department of State 2201 C Street NW Washington, DC 20520 The Honorable Steven Mnuchin Secretary of the Treasury U.S. Department of the Treasury 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20220 Re: Burma and Targeted Sanctions Dear Secretaries Tillerson and Mnuchin, The US government urgently … Read more
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Stakeholders press energy companies doing business with Myanmar to address Rohingya crisis Investors with more than $53 billion in assets sign letters calling for an end to ‘business as usual’ in light of military crackdown Falls Church, Va., 10/23/17 — A group of investors and stakeholders has called on energy companies … Read more
On January 19, Malaysia hosted the Organization for Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Kuala Lumpur for an Extraordinary Session on the situation of the Rohingya. Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak urged the government of Myanmar to end the humanitarian tragedy and subsequently pledged US$2.2 million to aid the minority group. In a final communiqué, the OIC … Read more