Children Killed in Yemen Airstrikes: Daily Brief
Children killed in Yemen airstrikes; World Bank silent on Burma; Cambodia to return refugees to Vietnam; No justice for Bosnia sexual violence victims; Refugee children face abuses; Italy pays for lack of legal immigration channel; Australia's gay marriage plebiscite; Hate crimes against LGBT people in UK.
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A third of Burma's Rohingya population (370,000 people) have fled the country in three weeks. This chilling statistic gives a startling sense of the magnitude of the apparent ethnic cleansing happening within Burma, and the danger faced by those who remain.
The Saudi-led coalition has carried out apparently unlawful airstrikes against family homes in Yemen, killing at least 26 children since June. Such attacks carried out deliberately or recklessly are war crimes.
The World Bank is staying woefully silent as Burma’s security forces are committing rampant atrocities against the Rohingya Muslim population. The institution's President Jim Yong Kim should denounce the Burmese government’s abuses, and highlight how this attack runs roughshod over the government’s commitments to advance social and economic development.
And while the number of Rohingya Muslims who fled Burma since late August has reached 370,000, Bangladesh's prime minister has urged Burmese authorities to take them back.
The Cambodian government has threatened to imminently return a group of ethnic Montagnards to Vietnam. But according to the UNHCR, they are refugees with a well-founded fear of persecution if sent back.
More than two decades after the end of the war, more than 20,000 victims of wartime sexual violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina are still being denied justice and the support they need, according to a new report by Amnesty International.
A new report by IOM and UNICEF reveals that up to three quarters of migrant and refugee children and youth traveling along the Central Mediterranean route experience abuse, exploitation, and practices which may amount to human trafficking.