Inter-Parliamentary Union in its 137th Assembly calls upon the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) and Human Rights Council to urgently intervene and halt the human tragedy affecting the Rohingya minority of Myanmar.

Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali today said the international community is much closer to Bangladesh than ever before over the Rohingya issue which, he thinks, is an outcome of its diplomacy.

Myanmar security forces killed hundreds of men, women and children during a systematic campaign to expel Rohingya Muslims, Amnesty International says in a new report that calls for an arms embargo on the country and criminal prosecution of the perpetrators.

The global parliamentary community yesterday condemned the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya minority in the Northern Rakhine state

Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali will visit Myanmar next month to attend the 13th Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) to be held in the country's capital.

The UN World Food Programme withdrew a critical report revealing desperate hunger that the persecuted Rohingya population had been living with in Rakhine State of Myanmar, as its government demanded it be taken down.

The poor's share in the national income eroded further in the past six years, with the richer segment of the population having bigger stakes.

Amid fresh waves of Rohingya influx, the UN has urged the international community to come together to support the October 23 pledging conference to meet the life-saving needs of the displaced Myanmar nationals and to promote their safe return home. Three UN-led aid bodies have appealed for $434 million over six months (Sept 2017 to Feb 2018) to help up to 1.2 million people, including some 400,000 Rohingyas already in Bangladesh before the latest crisis began in late August.

The UN Refugee Agency is concerned about the humanitarian condition of thousands of new arrivals who are stranded near the Bangladesh-Myanmar border.

Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury urges the international community to play an effective and sustainable role in resolving the Rohingya crisis which created a humanitarian crisis in Bangladesh.

Senior United Nations officials are urging the international community to come together in support of a 23 October pledging conference to “send a strong message to Rohingya refugees and their generous hosts in Bangladesh that the world is there for them in their greatest time of need.”

World Food Programme (WFP) of the United Nations has withdrawn its critical report revealing recently desperate hunger among the persecuted Rohingya people after the Myanmar government demanded it be taken down, reports The Guardian.

At least 288 villages are partially or totally destroyed by fire in northern Rakhine State of Myanmar since August 25, 2017, according to new satellite images released by Human Rights Watch.

Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali will visit Myanmar next month to attend the 13th ASEM Summit to be held in Myanmar's capital.

At least 12 people drowned and dozens remained missing after a boat carrying Rohingyas sank in the Naf River yesterday, as more than 30,000 Myanmarese nationals joined half a million others who crossed over into Bangladesh since late August. The dead include seven women and four children aged between one and four. Fifteen boat people have been rescued.

The European Union has said it will suspend invitations to Myanmar military commanders over the “disproportionate” use of force that has driven more than half a million Rohingyas out of the country.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says the Rohingya crisis can be resolved in line with the five-point proposal she placed in the UN General Assembly session in New York in September.

In a major foreign policy decision, the European Union and its Member States decide to review all practical defence cooperation with Myanmar.

The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) has included the Rohingya issue as the top "emergency item" as proposed by Bangladesh while its 137th assembly is underway in Russia's St. Petersburg, officials say.

Malaysia and other Asean countries will jointly create pressure on Myanmar government to speed repatriation of Rohingya people who fled persecution in Myanmar and took refuge in Bangladesh, the deputy prime minister of Malaysia says.