28 Jun Environmental-migration: A moving reality
The headlines are daunting: “Environmental migrants up to 1 billion by 2050”. The impact of accelerating climate change on the planet and those who live on it are increasingly inescapable....
18 Sep Falling Through the Policy Gaps – The Rohingya Diaspora in Asia
In the wake of the exodus of Rohingya from Rakhine State, Myanmar, the community has become increasingly dispersed across nearby Asian countries and beyond. With limited earning opportunities and consequently limited means for travel, the destinations for fleeing Rohingya tend to be a balance between...
30 May Rohingya Refugee Voices: “I think I will be here for a long time…”
Yasmine is a single mother of four young children living in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Now in her early thirties, Yasmine arrived in Bangladesh in October 2017, having been forcibly displaced from Myanmar as a result of the ongoing mass violence committed against the Rohingya by the country’s security forces....
28 Nov ODI “Dignity and the Displaced: Rohingya in Bangladesh” – Investigating Understandings of Dignity in a Humanitarian Displacement Crisis.
The Overseas Development Institute (ODI), recently published a working paper entitled “Dignity and the Displaced: Rohingya in Bangladesh” documenting their research findings regarding how different groups understand the concept of dignity, within the context of mass displacement of Rohingya. ...
14 Sep Asia Refugee Policy Analysis
The most recent chapter in a decades-long series of Rohingya refugee crises, which erupted in August 2017, has reignited discussion over the policies and legal structures, or lack thereof, to protect the rights of refugees and asylum seekers in Asia. Policy and binding legal frameworks...
28 Aug ‘The Rohingya Amongst Us’: Bangladeshi Perspectives on the Rohingya Crisis Survey
August 25, 2018 marks one year since the beginning of an aggressive Myanmar military “crackdown”, a disproportionate and indiscriminate campaign in response to coordinated attacks by Rohingya insurgents. The military’s self-described “clearance operations” drove an estimated 706,000 Rohingya Muslims en masse across the border from...
22 Aug Human Rights Watch Latest Report Examines the Hardships Rohingya Refugees Face Living in Bangladesh
The latest report from Human Rights Watch “Bangladesh Is Not My Country: The Plight of Rohingya Refugees from Myanmar” examines the deteriorating conditions Rohingya refugees face living in camps in Bangladesh after hundreds of thousands fled from their homes in Rakhine State, Myanmar after the...
25 Jul India’s home minister pledges aid to Rohingya refugees after meeting with Bangladesh PM
Following a three-day visit to Dhaka and an official meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, India's Home Minister, Rajnath Singh, has pledged further relief materials to over 750,000 Rohingya refugees living in Cox’s Bazar region in Bangladesh. The meeting between the two officials focused on...
25 Jun Rohingya girls face a life of limited opportunities, even in the refugee camps, a charity report finds
The ‘Adolescent Girls in Crisis: Voices of the Rohingya’ report by Plan International, wanted to understand the perspectives and quality of life of refugee girls between the ages of 10 and 19. Through 300 interviews, the report identified issues surrounding food security, access to water and...
11 Jun Four hundred Rohingya women and girls have used their thumbprints to sign a legal submission to the International Criminal Court.
The document calls on the ICC to investigate recent crimes and atrocities committed against Rohingya. Human rights lawyers and prosecutors are using an unconventional technicality of human rights law which states that human rights abuses are still being committed against Rohingya in Bangladesh, by virtue of...