Stateless Rohingya continue to struggle for survival in Myanmar
By Reuben Lim Wende in Sittwe, Myanmar Five years after 700,000 Rohingya fled to Bangladesh, and a decade after intercommunal violence rocked Rakhine State, those who remain live in a state of limbo. Over the course of her life, Za Beda, a 27-year-old Rohingya woman...
Rohingya boy learns language of photography
By Kristy Siegfried and Amos Halder | 25 August 2022 Five years after a Pulitzer-Prize winning photo made him the face of the Rohingya refugee crisis, a young refugee has taken up a camera himself. Mohammad Hasson has no words to describe his terrifying flight from...
‘I am you and you are me’: UNHCR staff draw on first-hand knowledge of displacement
By UNHCR Staff On World Humanitarian Day, we talked to three colleagues whose own experience of being forced to flee their homes inspires and informs their work. Mohamed Alkalifa Ag Mohamed knows that a few simple questions can mean the difference between hope and...