The US government is investigating alleged atrocities committed against the Rohingya Muslims. The State Department led enquiry includes over a thousand interviews with Rohingya men and women in Bangladesh camps between March and April this year. ‘The purpose of this investigation is to contribute to justice processes,...

The first reported family to be returned to Myanmar wasn’t repatriation, Bangladesh says. According to a Facebook post by the Myanmar government, a family of five were returned home from the border regions between both countries. The post shows images of five ‘Muslim’ people being given...

Migrant Offshore Aid Station talks to Xchange Senior Research Advisor, Maria Jones, and Research Analyst, Ioannis Papasilekas about the findings of the Snapshot Survey 2018. Using the Shamlapur and Unchiprang camps as a starting point, the team’s been able to explore the daily lives and...

Young Rohingya girls are being trafficked into prostitution, a new investigation finds. BBC News has revealed that women and teenage Rohingya girls between the ages of 13 and 17 are finding themselves drawn into prostitution and forced labour. An undercover team interviewed numerous women and children who...

A list of over 8,000 Rohingya refugees has been given to Myanmar officials marking an important step in Rohingya repatriation. The official exchange between the Bangladeshi Home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal and his Myanmar counterpart Kyaw Swe took place during a meeting of their delegations in...

  Mass graves containing Rohingya villagers has been confirmed by the Associated Press News Agency. Through interviews with over twenty survivors and relatives along with satellite pictures and verified video evidence gathered from mobile phone footage in the aftermath, AP has been able to uncover five mass...

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...