refugees



STORY OF THE DAY • Jan 19, 2021 • 2 min read

Refugees ‘Arson’ destroys four UNICEF schools in Rohingya camps

By Agence France-Presse • Jan 19, 2021
Unicef has said four of its schools in a Rohingya camp in Bangladesh's southeast were burnt down in an arson attack, coming just less than a week after hundreds of refugee homes were burnt down

STORY OF THE DAY • Dec 17, 2020 • 6 min read

Migration The Wait: Podcast spotlights the struggles of refugees in Indonesia

By Julia Winterflood • Dec 17, 2020
For decades, Indonesia has served as an open-air prison for thousands of refugees and asylum seekers stuck in limbo awaiting resettlement. Hoping to shed light on their plight, two women have documented their stories for new podcast, The Wait

STORY OF THE DAY • Oct 27, 2020 • 8 min read

Covid-19 Life on hold for region’s refugees as resettlement shrinks during pandemic

By Tara Abhasakun • Oct 27, 2020
An already lengthy process, refugee resettlement has taken a major hit during the pandemic. With the US and Australia announcing further quota cuts in recent weeks, the chance of a new life for many refugees stuck in Southeast Asia looks slimmer than ever

Jul 22, 2020 • 2 min read
Rohingya

Lawyer: Malaysia judge drops Rohingya caning after outcry

The lawyer for 27 Rohingya refugees sentenced to caning for entering Malaysia illegally has said a judge has overturned the decision and slammed it as "inhumane"
By Agence France-Presse • Jul 22, 2020

May 25, 2020 • 10 min read
Tales of the Pandemic

Humanitarian outreach for migrants on the Thai-Myanmar border

Mae Sot, a town on the Thai-Myanmar frontier home to a large Burmese migrant worker and refugee community, was hit hard in February when borders shut and supply routes were interrupted. Wayland Blue of the Shade Tree Foundation was part of an outreach team trying to mitigate these effects through a community outreach programme
By Wayland Blue • May 25, 2020

May 15, 2020 • 4 min read
Cox's Bazar

First Covid-19 case found in Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh

Bangladeshi officials announced on May 15 that a first person tested positive in the Rohingya refugee camps in Cox's Bazar. The world's largest refugee settlement and home to one million people living in overcrowded conditions, fears are that it will rapidly spread
By Shafiqul Alam and Sam Jahan/AFP • May 15, 2020

May 04, 2020 • 4 min read
Vietnamese refugees

Convicted Vietnam refugee fights deportation after 30 years in Hong Kong

Vo Van Hung is one of the last remaining Vietnamese "boat people" in Hong Kong. Three decades after he landed on its shores as a child refugee, he is fighting efforts to deport him to Vietnam now that he has finished a 22-year jail sentence for murder
By Su Xinqi / AFP • May 04, 2020

Mar 19, 2020 • 10 min read
Refugee camps and COVID-19

When social distancing isn’t an option

As the world locks down and social distancing goes into full effect to prevent the spread of COVID-19, Rohingya refugees living in squalid camps in Bangladesh don’t hold such a luxury. What happens if the virus takes hold in the world’s most vulnerable communities?
By Miriam Deprez and Andrew Haffner • Mar 19, 2020

Feb 28, 2020 • 8 min read
Cambodian Refugees

Memories of a refugee childhood

In 1991, sixteen Khmer families from Cambodian refugee camps received asylum in the Netherlands. Chhay Lin Lim's family was among them. Lin Lim was born in the camp in 1986, now he's sharing his early memories of life living as a refugee
By Chhay Lin Lim • Feb 28, 2020

Feb 20, 2020 • 9 min read
Burmese art

A light in the darkness

Maung spent his childhood in the midst of civil war in eastern Myanmar. Now a migrant in Thailand, he uses art to soothe painful memories and shine a light on the ongoing suffering of his people
By Zachary Frye • Feb 20, 2020

Dec 20, 2019 • 8 min read
North Korean refugees

The long way South

Top read: As countries across Southeast Asia prepare to expel all North Korean migrant workers this weekend to comply with UN Resolution 2375, we return to a piece from 2011 looking at the then-growing trend of North Korean refugees fleeing oppression and abject poverty to seek refuge in Thailand
By Jared Ferrie • Dec 20, 2019