The Unwanted: A portrait of the Rohingya refugee crisis
By Fiona Irvine-Goulet Since August 25, 2017, more than 600,000 Rohingya refugees have fled violence in Myanmar. Most are women and children; many have been beaten, tortured, raped, or have seen their homes and villages burned to the ground. Their loved ones have been...
Voice from the field: A UNHCR emergency response coordinator in Bangladesh
UNHCR Emergency Response Coordinator Joung-ah Ghedini-Williams is currently on assignment in Bangladesh, where an estimated 607,000 refugees have streamed across the border from Myanmar. Here is her personal account of a day in the Kutupalong refugee camp and...
Unifor Social Justice Fund donates $50,000 for Rohingya refugees
TORONTO — Mohamad Alsadi says the images of fire-ravaged homes and villages in Myanmar and Rohingya refugees forced to flee to Bangladesh were too much to bear. “The forced migration that took place in (Myanmar) is absolutely difficult to look at, to...