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...
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...
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 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...
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...
