Tag: refugees

The drop has already caused hardship among the roughly one million Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh's overcrowded camps

Aziz Abdullah, a Uyghur detainee, died after falling sick at the Suan Phlu Immigration Detention Center in Bangkok

Four vessels carrying Rohingya refugees have already landed in Indonesia in November and December last year

Among the emaciated refugees who survived the harrowing voyage, some were so malnourished they could barely walk

Each year thousands of Rohingya risk their lives on long, expensive sea journeys in an attempt to reach Malaysia or Indonesia

"The delay in rescuing these boats has already caused untold suffering and loss of life,” said said Charles Santiago, chairperson of APHR

Malaysia does not formally recognize refugees, treating them as undocumented migrants

Roughly two-thirds of Rohingya couples are now using some form of birth control -- up from virtually none five years ago

Thailand doesn’t recognize asylum-seekers or refugees because it hasn’t ratified the 1951 U.N. Refugee Convention

The government plans to evacuate about 2.5 million people from the most vulnerable areas in the path of the storm before the cyclone hits