Regional Focus: Asia Pacific, esp. the Rohingya

Rohingya Crisis:

Event: 

Ending the Rohingya Crisis: What Will It Take?, London, 26 September 2017 [info]
- Will also be livestreamed.

Publications:

The Denied Oppression of Myanmar’s Rohingya People (IRIN, Sept. 2017) [access]
- Scroll down for in-depth coverage.

How Social Media Spurred Violence against Rohingya in Myanmar (Refugees Deeply, Sept. 2017) [text]

Myanmar and Bangladesh: Rohingya Displacement and Protection Crisis (ACAPS, Sept. 2017) [text via ReliefWeb]

Rohingya Crisis: This is What Genocide Looks Like (The Conversation, Sept. 2017) [text]

"Trapped in Statelessness: Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh," International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 14, no. 8 (Aug. 2017) [open access]

"UN Human Rights Chief Points to ‘Textbook Example of Ethnic Cleansing’ in Myanmar," UN News Centre, 11 Sept. 2017 [text]

UN Migration Agency Calls for Coordinated Response as Nearly 400,000 Stream into Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar (IOM, Sept. 2017) [text]
- See also related infographic above.

Update on the Mass Displacement of People from Rakhine State, Briefing Paper for the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) (Forum-Asia & APRRN, Sept. 2017) [text via ReliefWeb]

Who are the Rohingya and Why are They Fleeing Myanmar? (Amnesty International, Sept. 2017) [text]

Other Publications:

Australia Must Intervene to Stop Cambodia Breaching Refugee Convention (APRRN, Sept. 2017) [text]
- For background on the Montagnards, read this related In Focus from the Kaldor Centre.

Examining Human Rights in the Context of ASEAN Regional Migration: Summary Report of Findings from APHR Fact-finding Mission to Malaysia, 3-7 August 2017 (ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights, Sept. 2017) [text via ReliefWeb]

Fourth Meeting of the Asia Dialogue on Forced Migration, Jakarta, 5-7 March 2017 [info]
- Central theme of this meeting was trafficking in persons, but the Global Compacts and the Bali Process were also discussed. Follow link for agenda, briefing papers and a summary of the meeting.

"How to Escape North Korea," Washington Post, 9 Sept. 2017 [text]

*North Korean Refugees Trapped by China’s Expanding Dragnet (Refugees Deeply, Sept. 2017) [text]

"Refugees or Border Residents from Myanmar? The Status of Displaced Ethnic Kachins and Kokangs in Yunnan Province, China," International Journal of Refugee Law, Advance Articles, 13 Sept. 2017  [open access]
- Note: This is the first article to be published open access in the IJRL!

Regional Cooperation on Refugee Protection: The Unanswered Questions (Middle East Institute, Sept. 2017) [text] 

"To be a Global Leader, China Needs a New Refugee Policy," The Diplomat, 22 July 2017 [text]

To Solve Regional Problems, ASEAN Should Include Communities (The Conversation, Sept. 2017) [text]

*UPDATED

Related post:
- Regional Focus: Asia Pacific (7 Sept. 2017)

Tagged Publications and Events & Opportunities.