Rohingya ‘camping out’ at UNHCR office

Rohingya ‘camping out’ at UNHCR office

(Mizzima) – Hundreds Rohingya men, women and children from Burma are living virtually on the doorstep of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) at Vasant Vihar, India, seeking refugee status. A Rohingya child lives in harsh conditions at the...
MYANMAR: What next for the Rohingyas?

MYANMAR: What next for the Rohingyas?

BANGKOK, 29 March 2012 (IRIN) – As Myanmar gears up for a by-election on 1 April, experts and community leaders are divided over what the ongoing reforms may hold for the Rohingya people, a stateless Muslim ethnic group living in the country’s Northern Rakhine...