Groups working with/for refugees from Burma/Myanmar
Websites/Multiple Documents
Description:
"In 2008, the International Rescue Committee launched aid programs in Myanmar (also known as Burma) following the devastation wrought by Cyclone Nargis. Today, the IRC provides health, water and sanitation, livelihoods and social development programs in some of the most remote areas of the country including Rakhine, Chin and Kayah states"
Source/publisher:
International Rescue Committee (IRC)
Date of entry/update:
2009-02-15
Grouping:
Websites/Multiple Documents
Language:
English
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Description:
Search for "Myanmar"
Source/publisher:
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)
Date of entry/update:
2008-06-04
Grouping:
Websites/Multiple Documents
Language:
English
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Description:
Figures back to December 1998
Source/publisher:
The Border Consortium (TBC)
Date of entry/update:
2012-12-24
Grouping:
Websites/Multiple Documents
Category:
Karen and other refugees from Burma in Thailand - general reports and articles, Groups working with/for refugees from Burma/Myanmar
Language:
nglish
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Description:
"The Information Management Common Service Portal is open to all humanitarian organizations as a way to help disseminate information that will assist refugees - in the nine Temporary Shelters located along Thailand?s border with Myanmar - in reaching freely informed decisions concerning their future lives, including the possibility of a voluntary return home. The information will be up-to-date and accurate, of a non-political and impartial nature concerning the socio-economic, human development and humanitarian activities taking place in southeast Myanmar."
Source/publisher:
UNHCR
Date of entry/update:
2014-02-11
Grouping:
Websites/Multiple Documents
Language:
Burmese, English, Karen
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Description:
"Very useful site, well-structured, with lots of material on IDPs and refugees..." .....Now the site has been re-organised and I find it difficult to find stuff.
"TBBC is a registered charity in England and Wales, a consortium of nine international NGOs from seven countries providing food, shelter and non food items to refugees and displaced people from Burma. TBBC also engages in research on the root causes of displacement and refugee outflows. Programmes are implemented in the field through refugees, community based organisations and local partners.
With increased focus on a rights based approach, the organisation is committed to meeting international humanitarian best practices..
The organisation is based in Bangkok, Thailand with field offices in Mae Hong Son, Mae Sariang, Mae Sot and Sangklaburi. "
Source/publisher:
The Border Consortium -TBC (formerly the Thailand Burma Border Consortium - TBBC)
Date of entry/update:
2006-07-27
Grouping:
Websites/Multiple Documents
Language:
English, Burmese
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Individual Documents
Sub-title:
A lack of job opportunities is one of the biggest concerns of refugees who have returned voluntarily from camps in Thailand where many lived for decades.
Description:
"IT’S BEEN a tough four months since U Saw Lawi, 54, and his family returned to Myanmar after spending nine years as refugees in Thailand.
Saw Lawi, a Lisu, had been living in the Umpiem refugee camp south of the Thai border town of Mae Sot since 2009.
In 2009, he was struggling to make a living polishing gems at Mogok, the Mandalay Region town famed for its rubies and sapphires, when his wife became ill. He couldn’t afford the treatment so he contacted his son, who was working in Mae Sot, and asked him to send money. The young man instead advised that they travel to Mae Sot, opposite Myanmar’s Myawaddy, so his mother could be treated for free at the Mae Tao Clinic, which was founded in 1988 by Dr Cynthia Maung, who has won many international awards for her humanitarianism. They arrived in Mae Sot later that year.
After his wife recovered, they went to live at Umpiem, one of nine camps along the border with Thailand that were housing 93,534 mainly Karen refugees on July 31, show figures from the United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR. Umpiem was home to 10,793 refugees.
Life in the camps has become increasingly difficult in recent years because of a decline in donor funding. Almost 10 years after they left Myanmar, Saw Lawi and his family decided to return under a voluntary repatriation programme launched by Myanmar and Thailand in cooperation with UNHCR. They were among 575 people who returned to Myanmar from the camps in Thailand in February; more than 1,000 have returned in four batches since the programme began three years ago, according to Myanmar government figures..."
Source/publisher:
"Frontier Myanmar"
Date of publication:
2019-09-09
Date of entry/update:
2019-09-09
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Proposed return of Burmese asylum-seekers from Thailand to Burma, Groups working with/for refugees from Burma/Myanmar
Language:
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Description:
"An international law firm hired by the United States State Department to investigate last year's military crackdown on the Rohingya in Myanmar, says it has found evidence of genocide, urging the international community to establish a criminal investigation into the atrocities and ensure justice for the victims.
The Public International Law and Policy Group (PILPG) said on Monday that its findings, based on interviews with more than 1,000 Muslim-majority Rohingya who fled to Bangladesh as a result of the crackdown in Rakhine state, also found reasonable grounds to conclude that the army committed crimes against humanity and war crimes..."
Source/publisher:
Aljazeera
Date of publication:
2018-12-04
Date of entry/update:
2018-12-07
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Arakan (Rakhine) State - reports etc. by date (latest first), Groups working with/for refugees from Burma/Myanmar
Language:
English
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