Analysis: Why civil registration matters in Asia

HIGHLIGHTS• Two-thirds of children in South Asia unregistered at birth• Unregistered are open to exploitation• Harnessing technology to fight child marriages in Bangladesh BANGKOK, 1 February 2013 (IRIN) – Stronger civil registration systems are needed in Asia,...

Desperation drives more Rohingya onto smugglers’ boats

COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh, January 22 (UNHCR) – They sail in search of safety, education, a better life, a future. But many die along the way. Those who survive face the prospect of detention, bonded labour or furtive lives as undocumented workers in an alien...

A Rohingya boy’s escape story

NARATHIWAT _ He was 10 years old, but Rohingya Nu Rahasim decided to set a journey to the sea for a better life after his parents were killed by Myanmar soldiers. The migrant, his fate now in the hands of Thai officials and international diplomats, was one of 139...
The Final Solution In The Modern Era

The Final Solution In The Modern Era

How Myanmar Is Rewriting History (part of The Darkness Visible series) (Victims of Ethnic Cleansing)   For all of written history the Rohingya people have lived in the are now belonging to the Burmese government known as the Rakhine or Arakan state. Their...
Waiting For Hope

Waiting For Hope

A Look At The Blockades’ Affects (part of The Darkness Visible series) (December 03, 2012 Rohingya Children Starving in Burma) In Burma the blockades still stand. Living testaments to the savagery of a government dedicated to the annihilation of the Rohingya,...

The ICC: Protection for the Rohingya?

Posted on January 6, 2013 by iclrmp     Written by: Regina Paulose In November 2012, the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) of the ICC released its Report on Preliminary Examination Activities 2012, which examines situations in various countries for acts...