Rizoan Alam and Sahana Akter, two siblings from the Rohingya community in Carlow have received places to study medicine at University College Cork (UCC). Both will begin the five-year medicine MB,BCh,BAO (Hons) at the same medical school next month. Rizoan and Sahana have completed their Leaving Certificate with excellent results at St. Mary’s Academic CBS and St. Leo’s College Carlow…
“On behalf of Rohingya Action Ireland, I would like to extend our condolences to Dr. Anita Schug, Dr. Ambia Perveen and Dr. Yasmin Haroon on the very sad passing of their mother, Jamila Begum. Mrs Begum has been witness to so many hardships and witness to the human rights abuses of the Rohingya. Jamila believed in the power of education…
As students across Ireland mark the end of their secondary school years, four Rohingya students celebrate their remarkable journey from being born in refugee camps to completing their secondary schools in excellent forms. The students were between the ages of four and six when they were resettled in Carlow and Dublin in 2009. All of them were born in Kutupalong…
Rohingya Action Ireland is extremely saddened to hear the news of Gary Kilgallen’s passing on April 9. Gary was a life-long campaigner of human rights, peace, justice and accountability. His decades of activism had brought human rights abuses across the world into the spotlight. Through Burma Action Ireland, Gary had spent over twenty years lobbying and campaigning for democracy and…
Rohingya girls and women from Rohingya Action Ireland opened a henna tattooing parlour to raise fund for the education of Rohingya children in refugee camps in Bangladesh. The parlour session which lasted for six hours at Fairgreen Shopping Centre on March 26, has brought many people of diverse backgrounds from Carlow, aided with the wonderful warm weather. Rohingya girls and…
Joint statement on Myanmar UN Security Council open briefing New York, 24 January 2022 We, the undersigned 286 organizations stress the need, at an absolute minimum, to convene an open meeting of the UN Security Council to address the deteriorating humanitarian situation and urgent civilian protection concerns in Myanmar as a matter of extreme urgency. As we approach one year since the…
Civil Society organizations reject UN Special Envoy’s proposal of “power sharing” Raise alarm at her misinterpretation that the “military are in control” 247 civil society organizations reject UN Special Envoy, Dr Noeleen Heyzer’s proposal that those defying the military must negotiate a power sharing as a solution to the current political, human rights and humanitarian crisis created by the terrorist military junta.…
Irish Government needs to use its influence to exercise pressure on Bangladesh to reverse disastrous decision of closure of community schools for Rohingya refugee children By Anthony Hannon On International Day of Education, spare a thought for the Rohingya community living in refugee camps and the decision by the Bangladesh government, in December 2021, to close community schools. Unless this…
JOINT STATEMENT September 30, 2021 Probe into the gruesome killing of refugee leader Mohammed Mohibullah demanded We are extremely saddened and shocked at the killing of Mr Mohammed Mohibullah, President of the Arakan Rohingya Society for Peace and Human Rights (ARSPH), on 29th September 2021, by a group of gunmen in his office in the world largest refugee camps at…
Rohingya Action Ireland urges Ireland to use its seat on the security council to pressurise UN member states to monitor the actions of the Myanmar military Press Release The latest coup from the Myanmar military indicates yet another abuse of power. Seizing power by force and arresting elected leaders is a threat to democracy. The coup has…