08 August 2022

Regional Focus: Asia Pacific - Pt. 1

Opportunity:

Webinar: One Year On: The Situation for At-Risk Afghans in Afghanistan and Abroad, 10 August 2022 [info]

Blog posts & press:

*Dwindling Funds for Rohingyas: A Factor Spurring “Go-Home'' Movement (Australian Outlook, July 2022) [text]

"Gov't to launch research department to improve refugee screening," Korea Times, 1 Aug. 2022 [text]

IOM Deputy Director General Calls for Solidarity with Rohingya Refugees and Host Communities; Commends Bangladesh's Migration Management and Climate Change Leadership (IOM News, July 2022) [text]

"New evidence shows how Myanmar’s military planned its brutal purge of the Rohingya," Reuters, 4 Aug. 2022 [access]

Notable chart: Even with humanitarian assistance, Rohingya refugees face shortages in food and essentials (UNHCR Blog, July 2022) [text]

*One Last Desperate Try at Using Asylum Seekers as a Political Wedge in Australian Politics (Border Criminologies Blog, July 2022) [text]

"Out of Sri Lanka’s tumult, a humanitarian crisis emerges," The New Humanitarian, 27 July 2022 [text]

"Refugees have become hostages in Indonesia," South Asia Globe, 20 July 2022 [text]

Reports: 

Asia and the Pacific Regional Trends: Forced Displacement 2021 (UNHCR, July 2022) [access]
- See also a video recording & presentations for a related event.

Healthcare and the Health-Related Harms of Australia's Refugee Externalisation Policies (CONREP, July 2022) [text]

Refugee Response Index (RRI) Australia Review – Pillar 1: Access to Asylum (Refugee Council of Australia, July 2022) [text]

Responsiveness to religious inequalities in contexts of displacement: Evidence from providers of humanitarian assistance to Shi’a Hazara refugees from Afghanistan in Pakistan, CREID Working Paper, no. 12 (Coalition for Religious Equality and Inclusive Development (CREID) & Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and Local Communities, July 2022) [text]

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