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- How the Global Refugee Crisis Has Transformed Europe
- Rohingya Women Request ICC Probe Into Genocide
- Rights Groups Warn of New Whitewash as Myanmar Military Vows to Investigate Rohingya Campaign
- Syrian Refugees Use Precedent Set in Rohingya Case to Try to Bring Government Officials before the International Criminal Court
- Some Rohingya refugees prefer death in Bangladesh over repatriation to Myanmar
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How the Global Refugee Crisis Has Transformed Europe
Find out how the aftermath of the refugee crisis is still upending politics across Europe—when you subscribe to World Politics Review (WPR). As the nationalist, anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats claimed their best result yet in Sweden’s parliamentary elections in September, the nation’s newspapers went bold with their headlines. “Chaos,” read the front pages, in all caps, […]
Rohingya Women Request ICC Probe Into Genocide
Female Rohingya refugees have created a support group called Shanti Mohila (peace women) in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district. None of these women knew each other before fleeing Myanmar more than a year ago but grief and trauma brought them together leading them to meet frequently in refugee camps. “Our fathers and brothers shot, our sisters […]
Rights Groups Warn of New Whitewash as Myanmar Military Vows to Investigate Rohingya Campaign
The Myanmar military has created a three-member investigative panel to probe the conduct of the armed forces during a 2017 crackdown on Rohingya Muslims in northern Rakhine state that left thousands dead and forced more than 740,000 to flee to Bangladesh, the country’s commander-in-chief’s office announced Monday. The campaign of violence by security forces included […]
Syrian Refugees Use Precedent Set in Rohingya Case to Try to Bring Government Officials before the International Criminal Court
SYRIAN ACTIVISTS AND lawyers are testing the bounds of international law, making two new attempts to bring the government of Bashar al-Assad before the International Criminal Court. Syrian refugees in Jordan, through London-based lawyers, sent communications to the office of the ICC prosecutor, asking her to exercise jurisdiction over Syria based on a precedent set last […]
Some Rohingya refugees prefer death in Bangladesh over repatriation to Myanmar
COX’S BAZAAR, Bangladesh (RNS) — When 60-year-old Dil Mohammad found out in November that he was on a list of some 2,000 Rohingya refugees to be sent back to Myanmar, he grabbed the bottle of rat poison and poured it down his throat. His wife forced him to vomit and rushed him to the nearby […]
He fled to New Zealand to find refuge. He was shot and killed in his house of worship.
Afghan native Daoud Nabi settled in New Zealand in 1977.Daoud Nabi sought asylum in New Zealand more than 40 years ago after fleeing Afghanistan with his two sons.Christchurch, the place he’s called home since 1977, offered hope and safety for him and his family.Authorities have not released details and information on the victims, but his […]
Rohingya ‘tusk force’ keeps refugees safe from deadly elephants
Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh – At least once a year, the Asian elephants living in southern Bangladesh migrate eastwards, passing through the forest that straddles the border with Myanmar. Because this area is sparsely populated, the elephants usually encounter little trouble beyond a few run-ins with local farmers when their crops are trampled. Now, however, the world’s largest refugee […]
Rohingya Repatriation: Doubt lingers as conflict flares up in Myanmar
Uncertainty over Rohingya repatriation is likely to stay as conflict between the Myanmar military and the Arakan Army in Rakhine has escalated since early January, say experts. The situation poses challenges for Bangladesh in handling the one million refugees in Cox’s Bazar, especially as tension between the host communities and the Rohingyas, and the risk […]
UN rights expert calls for end to ‘purgatory’ of ‘international inaction’ facing Myanmar’s remaining Rohingya
A humanitarian crisis fuelled by the suppression of basic human rights is continuing across Myanmar’s Rakhine state, a UN Human Rights Council-appointed expert said on Monday, in an appeal for alleged atrocities there to be referred to the International Criminal Court (ICC). Presenting her latest report to the 47-Member body in Geneva, Yanghee Lee, Special Rapporteur on […]
No money offered to Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh
The embassy official was asked to comment on a video posted online by a Rohingya NGO that showed Chinese delegates meeting with refugees in southeastern Bangladesh, and offering families money to return to their homeland. Bangladeshi officials and Rohingya leaders confirmed the meeting and the offer to BenarNews, an RFA-affiliated online news service, on Tuesday. […]Recent Posts
Find out how the aftermath of the refugee crisis is still upending politics across Europe—when you subscribe to World Politics Review (WPR). As the nationalist, anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats claimed their best result yet in Sweden’s parliamentary elections in September, the nation’s newspapers went bold with their headlines. “Chaos,” read the front pages, in all caps, […]
