Regional Focus: Asia Pacific - Pt. 1

Opportunities:

Job announcement: Associate Protection Officer, UNHCR Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok [info]
- Apply by 3 August 2020.

Blog posts & press:

"Behrouz Boochani Granted Refugee Status in New Zealand," The Guardian, 23 July 2020 [text]

Covid-19 and Refugees in India: A Tale of Exclusion and Counter-Exclusion (Border Criminologies Blog, July 2020) [text]

"COVID-19 Fuels Tensions between Rohingya Refugees and Bangladeshi Hosts," The New Humanitarian, 27 July 2020 [text]

Hong Kong Activists Now Face a Choice: Stay Silent, or Flee the City. The World Must Give Them a Path to Safety (The Conversation, July 2020) [text]

*'Learning' to be Self-reliant: What does COVID-19 Mean for the Refugee Community in Hong Kong? (COMPAS Blog, July 2020) [text]

Lost in Transit: Refugees Stranded in a Legal Vacuum in Indonesia (Kaldor Centre, July 2020) [text]

Refugee Health Workers Lead COVID-19 Battle in Bangladesh Camps (UNHCR, July 2020) [text]

What Myanmar is and is not Doing to Protect Rohingyas from Genocide (Just Security Blog, July 2020) [text]

Multimedia:

"14 Principles of Protection for Migrants, Refugees, and Other Displaced Persons," Presentation at Virtual Workshop for NGOs: Refugee Protection in the Context of COVID-19, Cox’s Bazar, July 2020 [access]
- Follow link for video.

Webinar Series on Refugees in Thailand (Fortify Rights) [access]
- Follow link for video recordings of four webinars that have already taken place.

*UPDATED

Related posts:
- Regional Focus: Asia Pacific - Pt. 1 (12 July 2020)
- Regional Focus: Asia Pacific - Pt. 2 (12 July 2020)