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...

As a new government takes over, political tensions chafe in Myanmar's ethnically divided westernmost state [caption id="attachment_5624" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Rohingya children at Say Tha Mar Gyi IDP camp, near Sittwe, Myanmar, on May 26, 2015 (Alex Bookbinder).[/caption] A new civilian president was sworn into office in Myanmar on March...

The end of ‘emergency rule’ and limited returns by displaced Rohingyas are positive developments in Myanmar’s restive Rakhine State – but the core issues remain unaddressed [caption id="attachment_5579" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] A woman and two young children walk on the outskirts of Say Tha Mar Gyi IDP...