{"id":29234,"date":"2020-07-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csw-yeo.1wp.site\/press\/csw-joins-over-50-organisations-calling-for-us-state-department-action-on-4738\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T18:58:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T17:58:30","slug":"csw-joins-over-50-organisations-calling-for-us-state-department-action-on-4738","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/press\/csw-joins-over-50-organisations-calling-for-us-state-department-action-on-4738\/","title":{"rendered":"CSW joins over 50 organisations calling for US State Department action on Rohingya crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/8226fa8fc261500065b555b722c5ffe8.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>CSW has joined over 50 organisations in signing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.refugeesinternational.org\/call-it-genocide\">petition<\/a> urging United States (US) Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to formally and publicly declare crimes against Burma\u2019s (Myanmar\u2019s) Rohingya people as genocide.<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.refugeesinternational.org\/call-it-genocide\">petition<\/a>, co-ordinated by NGO Refugees International, states: \u201cA U.S. government determination of genocide and crimes against humanity would subject Myanmar and its military to much needed international scrutiny at a time when the military continues to target Rohingya and other civilians in Myanmar. In the midst of a COVID-19 pandemic that is the predominant focus of governments around the world, a determination would also help to ensure continued international attention on the plight of the Rohingya.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In August 2017 the Myanmar army launched attacks on Rohingya villages and civilians which resulted in over 700,000 people fleeing to Bangladesh, thousands killed and hundreds of villages burned. Reports of the atrocities of mass violence perpetrated during this period include the burning of homes, schools and mosques, the deliberate burning of people to death inside their homes, mass rape, torture, execution without trial and the blocking of aid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The UN Special Rapporteur for human rights in Burma has said that the violence against the Rohingya has the \u201challmarks\u201d of genocide, and the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission established by the UN Human Rights Council claims to have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/2018\/08\/28\/presionar\/4061\/article.htm\/\">documented evidence<\/a> of genocide. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/2020\/01\/23\/presionar\/4535\/article.htm\/\">January 2020<\/a> the International Court of Justice ordered Burma to take immediate \u201cprovisional measures\u201d to prevent genocide against the Rohingya, and to preserve evidence of alleged crimes against the Rohingya, after charges were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/11\/gambia-rohingya-genocide-myanmar-un-court\">brought to the Court<\/a> by The Gambia in November 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CSW\u2019s Chief Executive Mervyn Thomas said: <b><i>\u201cIt has now been nearly four years since the Burmese military launched its horrific campaign of violence against the Rohingya people and yet international action remains insufficient and inadequate. Little has been done to hold the perpetrators of these crimes to account for their actions. Hundreds of thousands of Rohingyas remain forcibly displaced from their homes and the military continues to target these and other religious and ethnic minorities across the country. Today, CSW joins over 50 organisations in calling on the US State Department to declare the crimes against Rohingya as genocide as an important step towards further international attention and action on the issue.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Notes to editors:<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1.<span style=\"font-variant-east-asian: normal\"><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.refugeesinternational.org\/call-it-genocide\">Click here<\/a> to read the petition, also available in Burmese, and as an audio translation in Rohingya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2.<span style=\"font-variant-east-asian: normal\"><\/span>A full list of signatories to the petition is as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1.<span style=\"font-variant-east-asian: normal\"><\/span>21Wilberforce<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2.<span style=\"font-variant-east-asian: normal\"><\/span>Action Corps<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3.<span style=\"font-variant-east-asian: normal\"><\/span>ALTSEAN-Burma<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4.<span style=\"font-variant-east-asian: normal\"><\/span>Americans for Rohingya<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">5.<span style=\"font-variant-east-asian: normal\"><\/span>Arakan Rohingya National Organization<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">6.<span style=\"font-variant-east-asian: normal\"><\/span>Arakan Rohingya Society for Peace and Human Rights<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">7.<span style=\"font-variant-east-asian: normal\"><\/span>Bethany Christian Service<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">8.<span style=\"font-variant-east-asian: normal\"><\/span>Burma Campaign UK<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">9.<span style=\"font-variant-east-asian: normal\"><\/span>Burma Human Rights Network<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">10.<span style=\"font-variant-east-asian: normal\"><\/span>Burma Rohingya Organization UK<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">11.<span style=\"font-variant-east-asian: normal\"><\/span>Burma Task Force<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">12.<span style=\"font-variant-east-asian: normal\"><\/span>Burma Rohingya Association of North America<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">13.<span style=\"font-variant-east-asian: normal\"><\/span>Burmese Rohingya Association of Japan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">14.<span style=\"font-variant-east-asian: normal\"><\/span>Burmese Rohingya Community in Denmark<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">15.<span style=\"font-variant-east-asian: normal\"><\/span>Canadian Burmese Rohingya Organization<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">16.<span style=\"font-variant-east-asian: normal\"><\/span>Canadian Rohingya Development Initiative<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">17.<span style=\"font-variant-east-asian: normal\"><\/span>Christian Reformed Church Office of Social Justice<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">18.<span style=\"font-variant-east-asian: normal\"><\/span>Christian Solidarity Worldwide<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">19.<span style=\"font-variant-east-asian: normal\"><\/span>European Rohingya Council<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">20.<span style=\"font-variant-east-asian: normal\"><\/span>Fortify Rights<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">21.<span style=\"font-variant-east-asian: normal\"><\/span>Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">22.<span style=\"font-variant-east-asian: normal\"><\/span>Global Witness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">23.<span style=\"font-variant-east-asian: normal\"><\/span>HIAS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">24.<span style=\"font-variant-east-asian: normal\"><\/span>Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">25.<span style=\"font-variant-east-asian: normal\"><\/span>Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention at Binghamton University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">26.<span style=\"font-variant-east-asian: normal\"><\/span>International Campaign for the Rohingya<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">27.<span style=\"font-variant-east-asian: normal\"><\/span>International Interfaith Peace Corps<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">28.<span style=\"font-variant-east-asian: normal\"><\/span>International State Crime Initiative, Queen Mary University of London<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">29.<span style=\"font-variant-east-asian: normal\"><\/span>Jewish World Watch<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">30.<span style=\"font-variant-east-asian: normal\"><\/span>Justice4Rohingya UK<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">31.<span style=\"font-variant-east-asian: normal\"><\/span>Kaladan Press Network<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">32.<span style=\"font-variant-east-asian: normal\"><\/span>Karen Organization of America<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">33.<span style=\"font-variant-east-asian: normal\"><\/span>Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">34.<span style=\"font-variant-east-asian: normal\"><\/span>Never Again Coalition<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">35.<span style=\"font-variant-east-asian: normal\"><\/span>Partners Relief and Development<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">36.<span style=\"font-variant-east-asian: normal\"><\/span>Progressive Voice<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">37.<span style=\"font-variant-east-asian: normal\"><\/span>Queensland Rohingya Community Inc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">38.<span style=\"font-variant-east-asian: normal\"><\/span>Refugees International<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">39.<span style=\"font-variant-east-asian: normal\"><\/span>Restless Beings<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">40.<span style=\"font-variant-east-asian: normal\"><\/span>Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">41.<span style=\"font-variant-east-asian: normal\"><\/span>Rohingya Action Ireland<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">42.<span style=\"font-variant-east-asian: normal\"><\/span>Rohingya Human Rights Monitoring Network<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">43.<span style=\"font-variant-east-asian: normal\"><\/span>Rohingya Human Rights Network<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">44.<span style=\"font-variant-east-asian: normal\"><\/span>RohingyaKhobor<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">45.<span style=\"font-variant-east-asian: normal\"><\/span>Rohingya Post<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">46.<span style=\"font-variant-east-asian: normal\"><\/span>Rohingya Refugee Network<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">47.<span style=\"font-variant-east-asian: normal\"><\/span>Rohingya Student Network<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">48.<span style=\"font-variant-east-asian: normal\"><\/span>Rohingya Student Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">49.<span style=\"font-variant-east-asian: normal\"><\/span>Rohingya Women Empowerment Initiative<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">50.<span style=\"font-variant-east-asian: normal\"><\/span>Rohingya Youth for Legal Action<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">51.<span style=\"font-variant-east-asian: normal\"><\/span>STAND: The student-led movement to end mass atrocities<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">52.<span style=\"font-variant-east-asian: normal\"><\/span>Step Ahead<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">53.<span style=\"font-variant-east-asian: normal\"><\/span>Unitarian Universalist Service Committee<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">54.<span style=\"font-variant-east-asian: normal\"><\/span>US Campaign for Burma<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">55.<span style=\"font-variant-east-asian: normal\"><\/span>Witness<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CSW has joined over 50 organisations in signing a petition urging United States (US) Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to formally and publicly declare crimes against Burmas (Myanmars) Rohingya people as genocide.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":43371,"template":"","categories":[],"regions":[129,128],"class_list":["post-29234","press","type-press","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","regions-burma-myanmar","regions-east-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/29234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/29234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39818,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/29234\/revisions\/39818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29234"},{"taxonomy":"regions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regions?post=29234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}