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This report by the Public International Law & Policy Group (PILPG) is based on 1,024 interviews with Rohingya refugees conducted in March and April 2018 in the refugee camps and settlement areas in Eastern Bangladesh. PILPG, a global pro bono law firm, conducted an extensive legal analysis of the factual findings and this report makes the …
Bangladesh risks creating a “new crisis” for Rohingya refugees if it goes ahead next month with plans to relocate 23,000 refugees to an uninhabited island prone to cyclones, a United Nations human rights envoy has warned. According to Al Jazeera, Yanghee Lee, the UN special rapporteur who visited Bhasan Char recently, told the Human Rights Council that she was …
JOINT STATEMENT FRANCE: ENSURE UN SECURITY COUNCIL REFERS THE SITUATION IN BURMA/MYANMAR TO THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT 84 Rohingya, Kachin and Karen Groups worldwide call on the French government to ensure UN Security Council refer the situation in Burma/Myanmar to the ICC for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. March 5, 2019 We, the …
Burma Campaign UK today described the UN Special Envoy’s support for the National Verification Card (NVC) process being imposed on Rohingya in Burma as “appalling” and urged her to reconsider her position on the process. In a statement on January 29th following her recent visit to Burma, the UN Special Envoy, Christine Schraner Burgener, issued …
PRESS RELEASE FROM BURMESE ROHINGYA ORGANISATION UK (BROUK) ROHINGYA DENIED ACCESS TO EDUCATION IN MYANMAR AND BANGLADESH A whole generation of Rohingya children are being denied the opportunity to shape their own future as they face extremely limited access to education in both Myanmar and in refugee camps in Bangladesh, the Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK) said …
The Rohingya have been described by the UN as Burma’s most persecuted ethnic group. The government of Burma has policies targeting the Rohingya on the basis of their ethnicity and religion, which are applied almost exclusively to them. In 2017, thousands of Rohingya were killed, and 700,000 were forced to flee their homes. A UN report has …
As Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh refuse to return to dangerous and volatile conditions in Rakhine State, Burma Campaign UK’s director Mark Farmaner called Burma’s pledge to bring back 150 Rohingya a day a charade. He told the Guardian it would mean repatriation of the million refugees in the camps would take almost twenty years. “Myanmar has …
Our Director Mark Farmaner in his capacity as Director of Justice4Rohingya, in a meeting with Afzal Khan MP, Labour MP for Manchester Gorton and Shadow Home Office Minister for Immigration.
With Burma’s general election exactly two years away, the next 12 months may be the last chance to reform the law, give the Rohingya their long overdue citizenship rights, and help create conditions for the safe return of a million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. Mark Farmaner, director of Burma Campaign UK, writes in the London …
Burma Campaign UK’s Director, Mark Farmaner, spoke at an event entitled “How to achieve justice for Rohingya”, organised by Justice4Rohingya yesterday at the London Central Mosque.