How does the Rohingya refugee community keep itself going and what support do the Rohingya need? These are questions that Xchange is busy looking into for our new Snapshot Survey, in Unichiprang and Shamlapur refugee camps, Bangladesh. In this guest podcast, MOAS tries to answer these questions by...
A plan to repatriate the more than 650,000 Rohingya men, women and children from Bangladesh to Myanmar has been delayed. Bangladeshi officials postponed the process within hours of it beginning, citing concerns over its logistics and readiness. The Myanmar Government had originally announced that Rohingya refugees...
“The military came to my village and started shooting at the people. They [the military and Rakhine] took away 53 people; one was my husband. The military killed my husband by shooting him and he fell near a river.” - Azara, 19, Pan Kaing (Rathedaung) Azara's story is...
To find out more about life in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh, listen to a recent podcast by Gordon Watson of MOAS. He interviewed Xchange's GIS Analyst and Bangladesh team leader, Pablo Gallego, about his time conducting surveys in the camps. For more information on...
Since August 25, more than half a million Rohingya have fled to neighbouring Bangladesh to escape killings and other mass atrocities being conducted in Rakhine State, Myanmar. Xchange has a dedicated field team currently in Bangladesh collecting data in new Rohingya settlements, to document crimes...
MCP • Migration Country Profiles [ Click on the picture to access the portal ] The Migration Country Profiles project aspires to contribute to a better understanding of migratory trends across Africa and the Middle East towards Europe. The project focuses specifically on...
When ISIS was defeated in Sirte in December 2016, dozens of women and children held hostage by the terrorist group thought their nightmare was over. Some of the enslaved women had managed to escape during the terror group’s almost two-year reign in Libya’s central coastal...
Migrants face “cruel and violent treatment” at the hands of Hungarian officials. A scathing report issued by Human Rights Watch (HRW) reveals that migrants are severely beaten by authorities before being sent back across the border to Serbia. “I haven’t even seen such beating in the movies,”...
