At a time when the western mainstream media is focused on refugees from Ukraine in Europe, are longer-standing refugee crises being neglected?
Our latest story, about plans to move 100,000 Rohingya refugees to an island in the Bay of Bengal, reminds us that more than a million people who fled Myanmar in search of safety are still living in overcrowded camps, waiting to restart their lives.
Subjected to marginalisation, exclusion and violence for decades in Myanmar, the Rohingya Muslims fled across the border to Bangladesh in great numbers after a further crescent of violence in 2015.
The UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights has described more than a million Rohingya people trapped in refugee camps as “the world’s biggest refugee crisis” and “a textbook example of ethnic cleansing.”
Below is a series of seven stories, from the detrimental environmental effects of mass migration to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, illustrating both the human rights violations against the Rohingya people and their struggle to survive and build new lives…
Bhasan Char: Prison island or paradise? Are Rohingya refugees being denied their right to freedom of movement?
The government of Bangladesh plans to move 100,000 Rohingya refugees to the island of Bhasan Char. Our authors explore the issues on the island and beyond.
“Never again”: The defiant Rohingya of Bradford
In Bradford, we meet the founding members of the British Rohingya Community speaking from the first office used and run by a Rohingya-led organisation anywhere in the world.
Finding the right words: Translating the Covid-19 pandemic in Rohingya refugee camps
How do you convey vital health messages when the terms simply don’t translate? Jennifer Chance finds Translators Without Borders are biking across refugee camps with loudspeakers.
MOVE: A Rohingya child dances for hope in the world’s largest refugee camp
This creative story about a Rohingya child forced to flee her home, won the undergraduate prize in our 2020 Warwick Law School writing competition.
Will Covid strip what few rights the Rohingya refugees have left?
Confronted by a global pandemic and the prospect of being banished to an island for quarantine, will the Covid crisis strip the last remaining rights of the Rohingya people?
In pictures: The human and environmental toll of mass Rohingya migration
In Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh, photojournalist Gabriele Cecconi is struck by both the human suffering and environmental degradation.
The price of silence in Myanmar: Who is to blame for the plight of the Rohingya?
As Myanmar’s Rohingya crisis grows Kirsten McConnachie takes a critical approach, arguing Aung San Suu Kyi isn’t the only one responsible for their persecution.
