Citizenship is the Right to have RIGHTS
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THE MEANING OF CITIZENSHIP.
In a democracy, the source of all authority — the legitimate basis of all power — is the collective body of the people, the citizens of the polity. There is popular sovereignty of the citizens and thereby government by consent of the governed. A citizen is a full and equal member of a polity, such as a democratic nation-state (Mouffe 1995, 217).
In some states or countries, citizenship, the condition of being a citizen, is based on the place of a person’s birth, which is known as “jus soli” citizenship. In other places, the status of citizen is based on the citizenship of one’s parents, which is known as “jus sanguinis” citizenship. Some countries use both bases for ascribing citizenship. Further, most democratic states have established legal procedures by which people without a birthright to citizenship can become naturalized citizens. (more…)
Press Burma to End Abuses against Muslim Minority
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Kanae Doi, Tokyo director
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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Rohingya Delegate at United Nation (UN) Human Rights Council
Rohingya Delegate at United Nation (UN)Human Rights Council
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People who wander through life and death; Plight of Rohingya in Burma
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Status of Rohingya in Burma
Denial of the rights of citizenship for the Rohingya in Burma
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Neighboring countries should take measures
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2008 Year 12 End, we just ship a few small vessels carrying hundreds of people flooded, alongside the Andaman Islands of India. Most of the people who were on board the Rohingya people from western Burma , Muslims, many of which had been weakened. According to Indian officials told the crew, but the shipwrecked people, including to Thailand, by Thai authorities on a deserted island TwoDays after the arrest had been turned away in the ocean is only incur a few bags of rice and little water. According to the testimony against the Rohingya people told that India, doctors and government officials in the ocean is forced to stop the ship, it was also tortured in Burma from the sailors of the Navy [1] . (more…)
Japan should not close its Heart and Eye to the Rohingyas of Burma
By KMM , 4th November 2009
The Rohingyas are a Muslim minority group who live in the North Arakan State of Burma, adjacent to Bangladesh. They are an ethnic minority of Burma; Due to their racial differences with the Burmans, they were being officially declared by the Illegal Military Regime as non-citizens of Burma, making them stateless people. Burmese military’s officials claim that Rohingyas are “foreigners” in Burma and they have been/are being treated not only as alien but also modern salves.
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In this second part of his two-part series on the plight of the Rohingya, Nicolas Haque reports from Teknaf, on Bangladesh’s border with Myanmar.
Burden from across the border
Khamin takes an in-depth look at the state of Rohingya refugees, whose influx into Bangladesh over the last 30 years, from neighbouring Myanmar, is severely stretching the country’s resources.Mohammad Haseem is a Rohingya, living with his wife and his six-year-old daughter at the Kutupalang refugee camp in Ukhia, Cox’s Bazaar.
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Rohingya forced to build fence
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On Myanmar’s side of the Naf River that marks border with Bangladesh, labourers are hard at work building a fence that will prevent them fleeing persecution.
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Equal Rights Trust Press release 4 January 2010
ORIGINAL SOURCE
The Equal Rights Trust (ERT) has called on the government of Malaysia to grant legal residency to the estimated 30,000 stateless Rohingya ...
Meeting held in the Central Meeting Hall, President House,
Ahlone Road, 8 October 1982.
Translation of the speech by General Ne Win
Provided in The Working People’s Daily, 9 October 1982
ORIGINAL SOURCE: BURMA ...
SOURCE :AFP
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Before there’s more dialogue with General Than Shwe, human rights abuses against
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John ...
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AFP/Kutupalong, Bangladesh
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by Phanida
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