The “Bangladeshi Rohingya” framing has become a central weapon in anti-immigrant narratives through systematic disinformation ...
Scenes of shocking deprivation played out in the darkness. DANG KHALI SAUR, Myanmar -- The original version of this story appeared on Sky News. We have witnessed scenes of shocking deprivation and ...
BANGKOK — The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees urged the international community not to forget the plight of ethnic Rohingya refugees from Myanmar in the midst of many other world crises on Tuesday ...
A human rights group urged the United Nations (UN) on Wednesday to impose an arms embargo on Myanmar’s de facto junta rulers amid continued persecution of the country’s Muslims, Anadolu Ajansi ...
Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh said on Saturday they would not return to Myanmar to “be confined in camps” after making their first return visit as part of efforts to encourage their voluntary ...
The policeman manning the barbed-wire roadblock at the entrance to Bhumi quarter in Sittwe spells out the rules: if the Rohingya try to leave without a permit, they are apprehended and taken back to ...
Imagine life in a sprawling, makeshift city of tents and shacks surrounded by fencing to keep people penned in, with no access to education or any way to earn a living, dependent entirely on ...
If the situation in Myanmar’s Rakhine state does not instill confidence in the Rohingya refugees, voluntary repatriation would be impossible. Rohingya children gather sticks at a refugee camp in Cox’s ...
Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, government restrictions on movement in Myanmar have been widespread, but certain people have been more affected than others. On January 6, Myanmar police detained 99 ethnic ...
Tom Andrews, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, made the call at the conclusion of his ...
Matthew Smith is CEO and co-founder of Fortify Rights and a Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. Follow him on Twitter @matthewfsmith. Andrew Riley is a ...
An airstrike by Myanmar ’s military destroyed a hospital in an area controlled by a leading rebel armed force, killing 34 ...