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Gambia will open its case against Myanmar before the UN’s top court in December accusing the mainly Buddhist state of genocide against its Rohingya Muslims, the tribunal said Monday.The small, majority-Muslim African country will ask the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to make an emergency injunction to protect the Rohingya, pending a decision on whether to deal with the wider case.Gambia’s case at the ICJ accuses Myanmar of breaching the 1948 UN Genocide Convention through a brutal mili
Myanmar faced accusations of genocide in a landmark lawsuit filed by Gambia at the United Nation’s top court on Monday over the Southeast Asian nation’s treatment of Rohingya Muslims, Gambia’s government said.Gambia said it was acting on behalf of the 57-nation Organisation of Islamic Cooperation in bringing the case against Myanmar before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague.The lawsuit accuses mainly Buddhist Myanmar of breaching the 1948 UN Genocide Convention through a br
The State of Global Islamic Economy Report 2018/2019 states that fashion consumption among Muslims across the world is currently valued at US$270 billion and is projected to continue to increase at a growth rate of five percent.
Muslim countries led by Saudi Arabia want the United Nations to denounce serious rights abuses in Myanmar and demand an end to the military campaign against the Rohingya, according to a draft resolution seen by AFP on Wednesday.In one of the worst refugee crises in decades, more than 600,000 Muslim Rohingya have fled an army crackdown in Myanmar's Rakhine state since late August.The draft resolution introduced this week to the General Assembly's human rights committee said UN member
