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...
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...
What happened to the Rohingya refugees after arriving in Bangladesh, what do their households look like, how are they surviving and what kinds of challenges do they face? These are just some of the questions we shared with MOAS as last year’s Rohingya Survey launched. What...
A new report highlights the experiences of Rohingya children in the refugee camps, six months on from their arrival. ‘Childhood Interrupted’ was conducted by Save the Children, World Vision and Plan International and it outlines the abuses and fears young refugees face on a daily basis....
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...
“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...