The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) recently released their “Desperate Journeys” report which looks at the treacherous journeys that migrants take to reach Europe via the Mediterranean. Despite the decrease in arrivals over the past few years via the Central Mediterranean Route, sea arrivals continue to rise in Spain and Greece. Between January and June this year,...
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...
Marzhan is a Rohingya mother who has lived in Kutupalong expansion site in Bangladesh since 2017. Marzhan watches her youngest son, Jorin, playing in the dust with a battered toy car, under their shelter constructed of navy plastic sheets and bamboo poles. 37-year-old Marzhan is one...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...