Challenges of International Law in Protecting Ethnic Minorities (with reference to Rohingya Ethnicity)

The article is to study and understand the weaknesses and strengths of international law in dealing with challenges ethnic minorities confront. Accordingly, the writers of the article attempt to understand the roots of challenges Rohingya minority of Rakhin face in Myanmar. Some questions are designed in order to accomplish above mentioned goal in which the focal point is to understand why international law was not able to support Rohingya rights in Myanmar. The result of the article emphasizes that the main reason is the ambiguity in defining conditions of Rohingya ethnic group in international law and Meyanmar domestic law. The article also explains how large number of Rohingya ethnic minority are left behind because of deficit in international law to include and support them. The result is based on analysis of treaties, regulations and conventions of international law regarding minority's rights with regard to the conditions of Rohingya ethnic group in Myanmar according international institutions' reports.