Around 2.7 billion people live in countries where being gay or lesbian is considered a crime. In many places this ‘crime’ is punishable by the confiscation of citizenship, segregation, denial of rights and decade-long prison sentences....
In 2017, Xchange conducted a cross-sectional survey to obtain first-hand data from migrants aboard the MOAS SAR vessel, The Phoenix, in the Mediterranean Sea. This is what we found....
In this survey, Xchange seeks to understand a critical component of this unprecedented exodus that has largely been overlooked: what the Rohingya understand about the proposed repatriation processes, and what they desire and fear as individuals and as a community....
February 25, 2018 marked the six-month anniversary of intensified flight from northern Rakhine State. On August 25 last year, Myanmar’s military launched renewed ‘clearance operations,’ ostensibly in response to attacks on police posts by Rohingya insurgents. Since then, 671,000 Rohingyas have fled across the border...