Two female Nobel Peace Prize laureates break down in tears after hearing the stories of brutalities and atrocities carried out on Rohingyas by Myanmar army in Rakhine.

European Union foreign ministers agree to prepare sanctions against Myanmar generals over the killings of Rohingya Muslims and to strengthen the EU arms embargo, accusing state security forces of grave human rights abuses.

Newly appointed Myanmar Ambassador in Dhaka Lwin Oo meets Bangladesh Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali and discusses various bilateral issues, including Rohingya issue.

It has been exactly six months when the Rohingyas started streaming into Bangladesh to escape the ethnic cleansing in Myanmar and it took exactly the same many months for the world to forget them, to make them truly nobody's children.

The Unicef seeks urgent efforts to help more than 720,000 Rohingya children who are threatened either by the approaching cyclone season in Bangladesh or by ongoing violence and denial of their basic rights in Myanmar.

The atrocities against the Rohingyas in Myanmar and the subsequent crisis are the consequences of a society encouraged to hate and lack of global leadership on human rights, Amnesty International has said in a report titled "The State of the World's Human Rights".

The Myanmar government is bulldozing over the site of a Rohingya mass grave in an effort to destroy evidence of a massacre committed by the military last year, says a rights group.

Norway has laid emphasis on keeping up pressure on Myanmar authorities to create necessary conditions in Rakhine State to make the return of thousands of Rohingyas living in Bangladesh to their homeland 'sustainable'.

The United States assures Bangladesh of its continued political and humanitarian support in addressing huge man-made Rohingya crisis.

The repatriation of Rohingyas was supposed to begin last month as per an agreement signed by Bangladesh and Myanmar, but a pre-condition set at the eleventh hour held up the process.

Bangladesh has urged the UN Security Council to undertake visits to Myanmar and Bangladesh to witness the humanitarian situation of

The United Nations Security Council expresses its commitment to keep the Rohingya situation of Myanmar high on the Council's agenda during its presidencies in the coming months.

A Reuters investigation into the killing of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar and other reports of grave abuses "demand our attention and action," a senior United Nations official tells the UN Security Council.

Fortify Rights, a human rights body in Southeast Asia, urges the United Nations Security Council to refer Myanmar to the International Criminal Court to investigate genocide and atrocities against Rohingyas.

Action will be taken against 16 persons, including 10 members of Myanmar's security forces, in connection with the killing of captured Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state, a government spokesman says.

The United Nations describe the details of a Reuters investigation into the killing of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar as “alarming” and says it showed the need for a thorough probe into the violence in the country’s Rakhine state.

The killings in the coastal village of Inn Din marks another bloody episode in the ethnic violence sweeping northern Rakhine state, on Myanmar’s western fringe.

Swiss President Alain Berset has stressed the need for ensuring socio-economic development in Bangladesh in a “sustainable and inclusive” manner so that nobody is left behind.

Bangladesh is going to complete a “list of a reasonable number of Rohingya families” and set up two repatriation camps within this month as part of the process of sending back the refugees to Myanmar.

Visiting the Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar, Swiss President Alain Berset yesterday said a refugee crisis of this scale put Bangladesh and the international community under enormous pressure to provide shelter and the most urgent services to more than 650'000 people.