Plight of Palestinians, Syrians, Kashmiris, Turkish Cypriots, Uighurs and Rohingya Muslims figures high in Turkish FM Mevlut Cavusoglu's speech at the annual OIC gathering in New York.
The event is the latest in a series of incidents where shells have exploded in Bangladesh, but the first to cause a fatality.
As Rohingya mark 5th anniversary of exodus to Bangladesh, UN chief notes "the unflagging aspirations for an inclusive future" for the minority, who face widespread discrimination in Myanmar.
UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet has met with Rohingya community members during a tour of their camps in Bangladesh and said they had expressed hope that they would be able to go back to their homes.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, during an official visit to Bangladesh, pledged to work continuously to resolve the Rohingya crisis.
War crimes investigators have been working secretly to compile evidence they hope can be used to secure convictions in an international criminal court.
The decision paves the way for hearings that will examine evidence of alleged atrocities against minority Rohingya Muslims in a Buddhist-majority country.
The rights group says that 135,000 Rohingya and Kaman Muslims have been detained arbitrarily and indefinitely in the Rakhine State camps for ten years.
At least 450 Rohingya celebrating the end of Ramadan were detained by Bangladeshi authorities in the latest clampdown against refugees in the country.
Police are investigating the cause of a riot at a detention centre in northern Malaysia after more than 500 refugees escaped.
The measures come as Washington increasingly punishes the military both for the February 2021 coup that ousted Aung San Suu Kyi and violence against the Muslim Rohingya minority.
Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh say path to take action by the international community against Myanmar military has opened up because of the US declaration.
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