ESSAY: WITHOUT SCHOOL, A ‘LOST GENERATION’ OF ROHINGYA REFUGEE CHILDREN FACE UNCERTAIN FUTURE
In an article first published on The Conversation, RUBAYAT JESMIN, a doctoral student at Binghamton University, State University of New York, looks at the risks facing Rohingya children living in refugee camps in Bangladesh…
Myanmar must give Rohingya ‘pathway to citizenship’ – UN investigator
LondonThomson Reuters Foundation Myanmar must grant citizenship to stateless Rohingya with roots in the country, a senior UN investigator said on Wednesday, as she urged the country’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi to “be the democrat she once told us she was”. Buddhist-majority Myanmar does not recognise the Muslim Rohingya as citizens despite a long […]
Festival or refugee camp? Music events test emergency aid
LondonThomson Reuters Foundation When inventor Virginia Gardiner wanted to test-drive a toilet aimed at providing safe sanitation in the developing world, she knew just where to turn – a British music festival. Her firm Loowatt, which turns waste into fertiliser and energy, is among a growing number of organisations using revellers at European summer festivals […]
Rohingya have no future in Bangladesh camps, says campaigner
Dhaka, BangladeshThomson Reuters Foundation There is no future for the 900,000 Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh, a leading campaigner said on Wednesday, likening the camps to zoos and calling for a proper repatriation strategy. Rohingya lawyer Razia Sultana said there was a lack of hope among the refugees from the mainly Muslim minority, who fled […]
Ethiopia allows almost a million refugees to leave camps and work
Thomson Reuters Foundation Ethiopia passed a law last week giving almost a million refugees the right to work and live outside of camps, in a move praised for providing them with more dignity and reducing reliance on foreign aid. Home to Africa’s second largest refugee population after Uganda, Ethiopia hosts more than 900,000 people who have fled […]
DISPLACED PEOPLE: TOO SCARED TO RETURN HOME, MYANMAR REFUGEES IN THAI CAMPS FACE AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE
RINA CHANDRAN, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from the Thai-Myanmar border…
ESSAY: REFUGEES FROM VENEZUELA ARE FLEEING TO LATIN AMERICAN CITIES, NOT REFUGEE CAMPS
In an article first published in The Conversation, ROBERT MUGGAH, of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, looks at the trend for refugees – in South America and elsewhere – to head for cities rather than camps…
Poets and models star at world’s first refugee camp TEDx event in Kenya
Thomson Reuters Foundation Refugees turned poets, film-makers, models and teachers sought to shatter stereotypes and inspire a global audience on Saturday by sharing their stories of perseverance through suffering in the world’s first TEDx event to be hosted in a refugee camp. TEDx events – devoted to spreading ideas through short presentations covering everything from […]