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...
New survey highlights protection issues and everyday struggle of Rohingya refugees ahead of potentially deadly rains (COX’S BAZAR, March 14, 2018)—Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh face unemployment and restrictions on access to education for children, raising protection concerns, according to data from a survey that forms the...
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...
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...
The six richest countries host only 8.8% of the world’s refugees, according to an Oxfam report. The United States, China, Japan, Germany, France and the United Kingdom constitute almost 60% of the global economy; yet only host 2.1 million refugees collectively. While Jordan, Turkey, Pakistan, Lebanon, Palestine, and South...
The rate at which people are fleeing war and persecution has soared from 6 per minute in 2005 to 24 per minute in 2015, according to a new report released today by the UN Refugee Agency. The picture given by the UN agency appears dire and worsening. Wars...
Turkey will miss an end of June deadline to meet the EU’s conditions for securing visa-free travel throughout the Schengen zone. This was confirmed by the European commission following the issuing of a progress report on the controversial migration deal. The next report is due...
One in every ten respondents in a global survey said they would welcome refugees in their homes, while 80% overall said they would want their country to provide shelter. [caption id="attachment_5786" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Photo: Moas.eu/ Jason Florio[/caption] Respondents in China, Germany and the UK emerged as overall...