Rape against Rohingya Muslim Women: Unresolved Violation against International Law

Ubaiyana, Nikki Leres Mulyati

2018

Abstract

The history of human rights violations against Rohingya Muslims, believed to have started since 1784. Rohingya ethnic conflict is a conflict based on discriminatory treatment because of ethnic and religious differences. Based on Amnesty International's report, this prolonged conflict is fuelling the issue of Rohingya Muslims who are not considered and recognized as citizens based on Myanmar law. This was proven by the issuance of the Myanmar Citizenship Regulation (1982 Burma Citizenship Law), Myanmar has removed Rohingya from the list of 8 main ethnicities. During this time, in its handling, rape became one of the indications and evidence of the lack of protection of women's human rights from sexual violence. It should be emphasized, however, that the true international law and regional law in Southeast Asia actually provides a legal basis that affirms that they have the right to protect themselves against rape even by the government. Using a statutory approach and case approach, this study analyzes the compliance of Myanmar's state in applying international law and regional law to meet and protect the rights of Muslim Rohingya women. Ultimately, the study found evidence of disobedience by the Burmese government that violated the prohibition of rape against Muslim Rohingya.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Ubaiyana. and Mulyati N. (2018). Rape against Rohingya Muslim Women: Unresolved Violation against International Law.In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI, ISBN 978-989-758-458-9, pages 898-904. DOI: 10.5220/0009919608980904

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icri18,
author={Ubaiyana and Nikki Leres Mulyati},
title={Rape against Rohingya Muslim Women: Unresolved Violation against International Law},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,},
year={2018},
pages={898-904},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009919608980904},
isbn={978-989-758-458-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,
TI - Rape against Rohingya Muslim Women: Unresolved Violation against International Law
SN - 978-989-758-458-9
AU - Ubaiyana.
AU - Mulyati N.
PY - 2018
SP - 898
EP - 904
DO - 10.5220/0009919608980904