Regional Focus: Asia

Opportunity:

Call for applications: 2019 Short Course on Refugee Rights and Advocacy, Bangkok, 25-29 November 2019 [info]
- Apply by 15 September 2019.

Blog posts & media:

Between Policy and Reality: On the Challenges of Being a Refugee in Asia (Völkerrechtsblog, Aug. 2019) [text]
- Focuses on the Rohingya.

"Caught in Sri Lanka’s Anti-Muslim Backlash, Evicted Refugees Search for Safe Homes," The New Humanitarian, 29 July 2019 [text]

"Coming Home to Conflict: Why Afghan Returnees Say They Were Better Off as Refugees," The New Humanitarian, 1 Aug. 2019   [text]

Human Rights in Southeast Asia: The Rohingya Crisis in Focus (RI Blog, July 2019) [text]

The Necessity to Develop a Regional Refugee Framework for South Asia (Völkerrechtsblog, April 2019) [text]

Reports:

Beyond Limbo, Building Lives: Livelihood Strategies of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Java, Indonesia, RLI Working Paper, no. 38 (Refugee Law Initiative, July 2019) [text]

Impacts of the Rohingya Refugee Influx on Host Communities (UNDP, July 2019) [text via ReliefWeb]

Mapping Conditions in Rakhine State (Australian Strategic Policy Institute, July 2019) [text]
- See also related Reuters article.

Participation of Rohingya Enumerators in Data Collection Activities: Findings of a Pilot Assessment in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, April 2019 (REACH, April 2019) [text via ReliefWeb]

A Survey of the Afghan Returnees 2018 (Asia Foundation, May 2019) [text via ReliefWeb]

Related post:
- Regional Focus: Asia (18 July 2019)

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