Rights: Suu Kyi

rights: Suu Kyi's government has so far resisted those calls, which came from a special UN commission chaired by former secretary general Kofi Annan, according to CTV. Farida Deif, Canada director for Human Rights Watch, urged Trudeau to use the meeting with Suu Kyi on Parliament Hill to specifically push her to accept the UN call. But a major international human rights watchdog and groups representing Burmese refugees in Canada called on Trudeau to push Suu Kyi to allow an independent international investigation into allegations of widespread human rights abuses against the Muslim ethnic Rohingya minority in the western state of Rakhine. The prime minister should make clear that Myanmar's full co-operation with this independent and impartial investigation is expected by Myanmar's international donors and friends, said Deif. But during their meeting, Trudeau encouraged her to work with the UN, said his spokesman. Trudeau made no mention of the Rohingya situation during a brief public photo-op with Suu Kyi as the two exchanged pleasantries in his office. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.