A humanitarian catastrophe is imminently threatening the lives of nearly 1 million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh as they face the onset of the monsoon and cyclone seasons.
A Rohingya Refugee Describes His Flight from Violence in Myanmar
Mayyu Ali is one of the tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees who now live in camps along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border.
UN Security Council Must Take Action during Rohingya Visits
Refugees International urges the United Nations Security Council to use its visits to Bangladesh and Myanmar to demand humanitarian access in Rakhine State and accountability for the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya.
The Bangladesh-Myanmar Agreement on Rohingya Repatriation
With the news that Myanmar and Bangladesh have reached an agreement on the return of the 600,000 Rohingya, Refugees International underlines several significant concerns about the terms of repatriation.
Rohingya Crisis: GBV Policy and Advocacy Task Team Inter-agency Briefing Paper
The Policy and Advocacy Task Team of the Gender-based Violence Area of Responsibility (GBV AoR) recognizes the continuing generosity of the government and people of Bangladesh in keeping their borders open to the hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing conflict and violence in Myanmar.
Bearing Witness to Crimes Against Humanity
Following the violent expulsion of some 400,000 Rohingya in Myanmar in the course of three weeks (now more than 500,000), Refugees International (RI) President Eric Schwartz and Senior Advocate for Human Rights Daniel Sullivan traveled to Bangladesh to assess the situation and bear witness. This policy brief is based on that mission, which involved interviews…
USA Today: Aung San Suu Kyi, Understand This: Ethnic Cleansing is Going on in Your Myanmar
Why are the Rohingya fleeing in such numbers to Bangladesh? Ask any of the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya whose villages have been burned.
Bearing Witness to the Rohingya Crisis
Over a three decade career, I’ve been on dozens of humanitarian and human rights missions, but I don’t remember choking up on any of them — until this current trip to Bangladesh.
Sounding the Alarm on the Rohingya Crisis
What I am about to write is staggering: it is estimated by the United Nations and others that, over the past several weeks, the government of Myanmar and its military have driven nearly 300,000 Rohingya from their homes and out of Myanmar (also known as Burma).
World Leaders Must Act on Rohingya Crisis
Refugees International is outraged by the deplorable actions of the Myanmar military over the past several days.