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...
A senior rights group says it has ‘credible’ evidence of crimes against the Rohingya and names those responsible. Amnesty International has released a report based on 400+ interviews and a body of forensic, photographic and audio materials which show the coordination of attacks on Rohingya people. They...
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...
In 2017, Xchange conducted a cross-sectional survey to obtain first-hand data from migrants aboard the MOAS SAR vessel, The Phoenix, in the Mediterranean Sea. This is what we found....
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 Central Mediterranean Sea is host to the most active of the three known major migratory routes into Europe. Last year, it was recorded that of the total reported migrant and refugee entries into Europe, 80% of them took place across the Sicilian channel between Libya...
The Myanmar Government are urged to comply with an UN investigation into the military’s part in sexual violence against Rohingya women and girls, a joint press release says. Human Rights Watch and Fortify Rights submitted an 11- page joint report on cases of rape and sexual...
Xchange Press Release New Xchange survey highlights failings in Repatriation process caused by the exclusion of Rohingya refugees from negotiations. Xchange launches its Repatriation Survey on Wednesday 23rd May 2018. This MOAS funded survey, conducted over the one-month period in April and May 2018, is the latest in...
In this survey, Xchange seeks to understand a critical component of this tragedy that has largely been overlooked: what the Rohingya understand about the proposed repatriation processes, and what they desire and fear as individuals and as a community....
