Statelessness: general studies and reports
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Search results for Statelessness. A rich seam of reports, Excom conclusions, guidelines, commentaries, descriptions and case studies etc. on statelessness.
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UNHCR
Date of entry/update:
2010-12-24
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Statelessness: general studies and reports, The statelessness conventions and UNHCR readings on statelessness
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English
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Topic:
rakan; Boat people; Rohingya; Myanmar; Persecuted Community, Refugee; Rakhine; Stateless People; UNHCR
Topic:
rakan; Boat people; Rohingya; Myanmar; Persecuted Community, Refugee; Rakhine; Stateless People; UNHCR
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"State sponsored persecution and subsequent migration of Rohingya has emerged as a serious challenge to existing International system as the international community despite recognizing the fact that Rohingya are subjected to systemic persecution and genocide could only silently witness the burning villages and capsizing boats of Rohingya refugees effectively failing to respond to the crisis. Forced migration of Rohingya has therefore posed serious questions to the effectiveness of incumbent International security regime centered around UNSC; and international human rights regime particularly Genocide convention and International Refugee Convention of 1951. This essay presents to its readers a chronological record of the longstanding crisis surrounding Rohingya and response of the regional as well as international players at different stages of the conflict. Thus, An attempt has been made to understand the anatomy of Rohingya migration crisis with an aim to explore doable options to resolve this protracted humanitarian issue.."
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Iqra University via Academia.edu (USA)
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2020-02-09
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Arakan (Rakhine) State - reports etc. by date (latest first), Discrimination against the Rohingya, Burmese refugees in Bangladesh, Statelessness: general studies and reports, Nationality, citizenship and immigration
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"Myanmar is on a long and tedious road to democratic transition. As the country prepares for
General Elections in 2015, the struggle to maintain hegemony and legitimacy is becoming
even more intense for Thein Sein‘s Union Solidarity and Development party, given the
public support enjoyed by the newly revived opposition party National League for
Democracy led by pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. This transition and struggle to
maintain status quo is coming at a high price for Myanmar, particularly for those belonging
to the ethnic minority groups. This paper is particularly concerned with the situation of one
such minority group — the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.
The Rohingya Muslims live in the Rakhine state bordering the Bay of Bengal in the west.
Despite an estimated 1-2 million Rohingya Muslims living in the region, they are not
recognized as ethnic minority group by the Myanmar government but are believed to be
Bangladeshi migrants who have settled in the state illegally. This perspective has given birth
to all the discriminatory policies and actions against them since beginning of the last century.
In June 2012, sectarian violence broke out between the majority Arakanese Buddhists and the
Rohingya Muslims, triggered by the rape of a 28-year old Buddhist woman by three Muslim
men. The violence in October was on a larger scale and much more lethal. The ensuing
violence since June has reportedly claimed hundreds of lives and caused thousands of
Rohingyas to flee their homes. As of July 2013, an estimated 140,000 Rohingya Muslims
have been displaced from their homes. An unaccounted number of people are dying almost
daily in the open sea as they attempt to flee to neighboring countries on rickety boats, and
many more are dying due to systematic blockade of aid, food, water or medicine supply in
the Rohingya IDP camps. Several factors clearly indicate that the ongoing violence is much
more than sectarian clash..."
Source/publisher:
European Peace University via Academia.edu (USA)
Date of publication:
2013-10-16
Date of entry/update:
2020-02-09
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Individual Documents
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Arakan (Rakhine) State - reports etc. by date (latest first), Discrimination against the Rohingya, Statelessness: general studies and reports, Laws, decrees, bills and regulations relating to nationality, citizenship and immigration (commentary), Burmese refugees in Bangladesh
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Rohingya, refugee, history, human rights,Bangladesh, Myanmar
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Rohingya, refugee, history, human rights,Bangladesh, Myanmar
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"Rohingyas are the inhabitants of historical Arakan (RakhineState) of Myanmar. Arakan shares nearly 171 mile-longcommon border with Bangladesh. Its toatal area is 14,914 sq mileswhich contains approximately 3 million population according to the census of 2014. Out of this, there are around one million
Rohingyas in Arakan (Farzana, 2017, p. 2). It is a piece of land
along the eastern coast of the Bay of Bengal from the Naaf river on
the border of Chittagong to cape Negaris. Topographically, it is
separated from the mainland of Myanmar by Yoma range in one
side and widely connected to the Bay of Bengal in the other side.
That is why it is known as the ‗Gate Way to the Far East‘ (Yunus,
1994, p. 7). Because of its geographical location, it started to atract
the seafarers from the very ancient period. It was one of the
maritime activities centre in the South Asia. With this Arakan grew
up with economic development and multi cultural environment.
However, because of the geographical condition, Arakan remained
as an independent entity from the very ancient period. According to archaeological evidences, the earliest human
settlement in Myanmar dates back to 11,000 BC (Maw, 1995, pp.
213-220). In case of Arakan, antique relics have been found from
Indo-Aryan groups who arrived from the Ganges Valley to Arakan
as early as 3000 BC. And these people were basically from the
ancient India. Hence, the culture of Arakan was influenced by
India instead of mainland of Myanmar at least up to the 10th
century because of its easy access to the Gangetic land and the Bay
of Bengal instead of mountainous boundary on the other side..."
Source/publisher:
Borno Prokash Ltd. via Academia.edu (USA)
Date of publication:
2019-00-00
Date of entry/update:
2020-02-09
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Individual Documents
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Arakan (Rakhine) State - reports etc. by date (latest first), Discrimination against the Rohingya, Burmese refugees in Bangladesh, Statelessness: general studies and reports, Laws, decrees, bills and regulations relating to nationality, citizenship and immigration (commentary)
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"The word “Rohingya” was used
for the first time as "Rooinga" (=
inhabitant of Arakan, today's
province Rakhine) in 1799 in the
"Journal Asiatic Researches" for a longestablished population in Rakhine
(Ibrahim 2016, Gill 2015). Later they
were called "Muslim Arakanese".
Myanmar is one of the most ethnically diversified societies of the
world. 135 "ethnic nationalities"
with numerous subgroups are
officially recognized in the Burma
Citizenship Law from 1982, but the
ethnic Rohingya were not included
(Farzana 2017, 2018). In the first
constitution of Myanmar in 1947,
all people living at that time in
“Frontier Areas” and who intended
to stay permanently were considered
citizens and accepted as “The People
of Burma” (Farzana 2018). However,
when General Ne Win came to power
in 1962, the Rohingya were deemed
as not compatible with other ethnic
groups in Burma. Other Muslims,
who do not belong to the Rohingya,
have Myanmar nationality (Ibrahim
2016).
The Muslims in Rakhine have not
always identified themselves as an
independent group. But a uniform
concept with an identifying name had
political advantages, since recognition
as an ethnic group would increase the
chances to gain the right to citizenship.
The common experience generated by
decades of discrimination contributed
further to the identity formation of
the Rohingya. The term "Rohingya"
as an ethnic group spread only after
the major refugee movements with
the human rights debate through
international organizations (Farzana
2017; Bochmann 2017)...ဓ
Source/publisher:
Academia.edu (USA)
Date of publication:
2018-08-18
Date of entry/update:
2020-02-09
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Individual Documents
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Arakan (Rakhine) State - reports etc. by date (latest first), Discrimination against the Rohingya, Burmese refugees in Bangladesh, Statelessness: general studies and reports, Laws, decrees, bills and regulations relating to nationality, citizenship and immigration (commentary)
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"This paper problematizes the situation of vulnerable migrants, in particular, that ofrefugees and asylum seekers in Southeast Asia as against policy pronouncements towards a
people-centered ASEAN. As a case in point, the paper highlights the so-called Boat People
Crisis of 2015 and argues that the events that lead to and resulted from it reveal a situation ofhyper-precarity, as well as a crisis of and for human security. Additionally, the paper offersJudith Butler’s notion of an ethic of cohabitation as a means of substantiating claims for a
people-centered community. From Visions of a ‘People-Centered’ Community to PrecarityMany trace the emergence of visions for a ‘people-centered’ ASEAN community to
the development of human security or otherwise less state-centric approaches to security in
the region. As early as the 1960s, Indonesia’s concept of
ketahanan nasional
or national
resilience, Malaysia under Mahathir, and Singapore’s notion of Total Defence, all embrace a
concept of security that goes beyond the military dimension to incorporate political,
economicand socio-cultural dimensions (Caballero-Anthony, 2004: 160). Nishikawa argues that suchformulations were still essentially state-centric because protecting territory and
resourcesfrom internal and external threats continue to be the main concerns for Southeast Asiancountries as a result of its postcolonial experiences. Nonetheless, since the 2004 VientianneAction Programme (VAP), which outlines ASEAN’s program of actions towards the creationof an ASEAN Security Community (ASC), Nishikawa agrees that there has been
a move awayfrom a traditional military definition of security towards a more a more people- centeredapproach (Nishikawa, 2009: 217)..."
Source/publisher:
Southeast Asia Research Centre via Academia.edu (USA)
Date of publication:
2016-06-17
Date of entry/update:
2020-02-09
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Individual Documents
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Arakan (Rakhine) State - reports etc. by date (latest first), Discrimination against the Rohingya, Burmese refugees in Bangladesh, Statelessness: general studies and reports, Laws, decrees, bills and regulations relating to nationality, citizenship and immigration (commentary)
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The Rohingya are a people under attack in their place of birth. India wants to deport them, a marked departure in its response towards asylum seekers.
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"Myanmar’s historically intriguing Rohingya question is one of the most
misunderstood and ill-informed international crises of our time. So much ignorance
is attached to the subject that the world is blind even to the precise headcount of
Rohingyas. From the first ever census in 1872 to the latest in 2014 there is no
record of the Rohingya numbers.
W. W. Hunter, the census commissioner of 1872 noted that a total of 64,315
Muhammadans—not Rohingya—were living in Arakan (now Rakhine state). In
1931, the last combined census of British-held India and Burma, J. J. Bennison,
superintendent of census operations for Burma, reported that the total Muslim
population was 584,839. No census ever used the word Rohingya. Therefore, the
numbers, from one million to three million Rohingya Muslims, as claimed by
various agencies and media houses are imaginary or based on hearsay.
Even the origin of the pervasive but unverified phrase “ethnic Rohingyas are
among the most persecuted minority groups in the world” ascribed to the United
Nations, is shrouded in mystery. There is no record available that has ever linked
the statement to any of the UN organs, therefore making it a propagandist’s tool to
influence world opinion.
Enmity between followers of Theravada Buddhism and the
Rohingya Muslims stems from the latter’s alleged treachery,
betrayal and secessionist behaviour in Burma’s freedom
struggle..."
Source/publisher:
"Academia.edu" (USA)
Date of publication:
2017-12-06
Date of entry/update:
2019-12-08
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Arakan (Rakhine) State - reports etc. by date (latest first), Discrimination against the Rohingya, Statelessness: general studies and reports, Laws, decrees, bills and regulations relating to nationality, citizenship and immigration (commentary), Burmese refugees in Bangladesh
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Arakan, Rakhine state, ethnonationalism, Rohingya, Burma, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Pakistan, state oppression, refugees
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Arakan, Rakhine state, ethnonationalism, Rohingya, Burma, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Pakistan, state oppression, refugees
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"The name Rohingya denotes an ethnoreligious identity of Muslims in North Rakhine
State, Myanmar (formerly Burma). The term became part of public discourse in the late
1950s and spread widely following reports on human rights violations against Muslims in
North Rakhine State during the 1990s, and again after 2012. Claims for regional Muslim
autonomy emerged during World War II and led to the rise of a Rohingya ethnonationalist
movement that drew on the local Muslim imaginaire, as well as regional history and
archaeology. To explore the historical roots of distinctive identity claims and highlight
Buddhist-Muslim tensions, one must reach back to the role of Muslims in the precolonial
Buddhist kingdom of Arakan and their demographic growth during the colonial period.
Civic exclusion and state harassment under Burma’s authoritarian regimes (1962–2011)
put a premature end to political hopes of ethnic recognition, and yet hastened a process
of shared identity formation, both in the country and among the diaspora. Since the
1970s, refugees and migrants turned to Bangladesh, the Middle East, and Southeast
Asian countries, forming a transnational body of Rohingya communities that reinvented
their lives in various political and cultural contexts. A succession of Rohingya nationalist
organizations—some of whom were armed—had negligible impact but kept the political
struggle alive along the border with Bangladesh. Although Rohingya nationalists failed to
gain recognition among ethnic and religious groups in Burma, they have attracted
increasing international acknowledgment. For postdictatorial Myanmar (after 2011), the
unresolved Rohingya issue became a huge international liability in 2017, when hundreds
of thousands fled to Bangladesh following military operations widely interpreted as ethnic
cleansing. In December 2017, the United Nations’ high commissioner for human rights
acknowledged that elements of genocide may be occurring..."
Source/publisher:
"Academia.edu" (USA) via Oxford Research Encyclopedia (UK)
Date of publication:
2018-05-00
Date of entry/update:
2019-09-22
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Arakan (Rakhine) State - reports etc. by date (latest first), Discrimination against the Rohingya, Genocide, Internal displacement/forced migration of Rohingyas, Burmese refugees in Bangladesh, Statelessness: general studies and reports, Laws, decrees, bills and regulations relating to nationality, citizenship and immigration (commentary)
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"Hindu Rohingya refugees who fled a 2017 military crackdown in Myanmar have appealed to State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi to let them leave refugee camps in Bangladesh and return to Rakhine state, according to a mobile phone video obtained by Radio Free Asia (RFA), a BenarNews sister service.
Several hundred Hindus along with more than 740,000 Muslim Rohingyas fled to safety in southeastern Bangladesh after deadly attacks on border police outposts by Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) insurgents provoked a brutal military crackdown in Rakhine two years ago.
Though the governments of Myanmar and Bangladesh have agreed to repatriate refugees now living in sprawling displacement camps, none have returned under two previous attempts, failing to show up at the border for re-entry processing.
The stateless Rohingya, who face systematic discrimination in Myanmar because they are viewed as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, have refused to return unless they are granted full citizenship, recognition as a national ethnic group, and basic rights, as well as guaranteed a safe environment. The Rohingya say they had Myanmar citizenship, but it was stripped away in 1982..."
Source/publisher:
" BenarNews"
Date of publication:
2019-09-12
Date of entry/update:
2019-09-13
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Individual Documents
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Arakan (Rakhine) State - reports etc. by date (latest first), Internal displacement/forced migration of Rohingyas, Statelessness: general studies and reports, Burmese refugees in Bangladesh, Laws, decrees, bills and regulations relating to nationality, citizenship and immigration (commentary)
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Fortify Rights’ latest 102-page report exposes new details on root of Rohingya crisis
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"The Government of Myanmar should end discriminatory measures that deny Rohingya equal access to citizenship, said Fortify Rights in a new report today. The report exposes a systematic campaign to erase the identity of Rohingya Muslims.
“The Myanmar government is trying to destroy the Rohingya people through an administrative process that effectively strips them of basic rights,” said Matthew Smith, Chief Executive Officer at Fortify Rights. “This process and its impacts lie at the root of the Rohingya crisis, and until it’s addressed, the crisis will continue.”
The 102-page report, “Tools of Genocide”: National Verification Cards and the Denial of Citizenship of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, reveals how Myanmar authorities forced and coerced Rohingya to accept National Verification Cards (NVCs), which effectively identify Rohingya as “foreigners” and strip them of access to full citizenship rights. Myanmar authorities tortured Rohingya to accept NVCs and restricted the movement and livelihoods of Rohingya who refused NVCs. Due to a highly restrictive environment created by the government, international humanitarian agencies also effectively furthered the government’s NVC policies and erasure of Rohingya identity, according to the report.
The violations documented in the report associated with the government’s NVC process and the denial of citizenship are within the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court to consider in its investigation into atrocity crimes against Rohingya in Myanmar, Fortify Rights said.....“လူသားတို့၏ ကိုယ်ပိုင်သရုပ်လက္ခဏာဖြစ်တည်မှုနှင့် ပတ်သက်ပြီး နိုင်ငံရေးလွှမ်းမိုးမှုများကို
ဆထက်တိုးပြုလုပ်ခြင်း၊” အကာအကွယ်ပေးခံရသော အုပ်စုများအား ပစ်မှတ်ထား ခွဲခြားဆက်ဆံသည့်
“အစီအမံများ သို့မဟုတ် ဥပဒေများ” ချမှတ်ဆောင်ရွက်ခြင်း အစရှိသည့်လုပ်ရပ်များသည်
“ရက်စက်ကြမ်းကြုတ်သော ရာဇဝတ်မှုများဖြစ်ပွားစေရန် အားပေးအားမြှောက်ပြုသည့် အနေအထားတစ်ခုကို
ဖန်တီးသည့်” လုပ်ရပ်များဖြစ်ကြပြီး၊ ထိုကဲ့သို့သော လုပ်ရပ်အချို့နှင့်ပတ်သက်ပြီး လူမျိုးတုန်းသတ်ဖြတ်မှု
ဟန့်တားရေးဆိုင်ရာ ကုလသမဂ္ဂရုံးမှ သတိပေးချက်ထုတ်ပြန်ထားပါသည်။ လူအုပ်စုတစ်စု၏အဖွဲ့ဝင်များအား
သတ်ဖြတ်မှုကဲ့သို့သော သီးခြားတားမြစ်ထားသည့် လုပ်ရပ်များအပြင် လူမျိုးတုန်းသတ်ဖြတ်မှုများအား
ကျူးလွန်သော နိုင်ငံများသည် ၎င်းတို့ပစ်မှတ်ထားသည့် အုပ်စုတစ်စုအား တိုက်ခိုက်ဖျက်ဆီးရန်အတွက်
အထောက်အပံ့ဖြစ်စေသော ဥပဒေနှင့်အုပ်ချုပ်မှုဆိုင်ရာ နည်းလမ်းများအား “အလုံးစုံ သို့မဟုတ်
တစ်စိတ်တစ်ပိုင်းအနေဖြင့်” မကြာခဏ အသုံးပြုကြပါသည်။
မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတွင်အစိုးရအဆက်ဆက်သည် ရိုဟင်ဂျာမွတ်ဆလင်များ၏ ဖြစ်တည်မှုနှင့် အခွင့်အရေးများအား
ဖျောက်ဖျက်ရန်အတွက် အစီအမံများနှင့် ဥပဒေများကို အကောင်အထည်ဖော်ခဲ့ပြီး၊ လူမျိုးတုန်းသတ်ဖြတ်မှုအတွက်
လုပ်ဆောင်နိုင်သော အနေအထားတစ်ခုကို ဖန်တီးလျှက်ရှိပါသည်။
ဤအစီအရင်ခံစာမှ မြန်မာအစိုးရသည် ရိုဟင်ဂျာများအား နိုင်ငံသားဖြစ်ခွင့်ကိုငြင်းပယ်ရန်အတွက်
ခွဲခြားဆက်ဆံသည့် အုပ်ချုပ်မှုဆိုင်ရာအစီအမံများပြုလုပ်နေကြောင်းကို မှတ်တမ်းတင်ထားသည်။ အစိုးရက
ရိုဟင်ဂျာများအား “နိုင်ငံခြားသားများ”ဟု ခွဲခြားထားသည့် နိုင်ငံသားစိစစ်ရေးကဒ်များကို ရိုဟင်ဂျာများက
လက်ခံလာစေရန် အင်အားသုံးခြင်း၊ အတင်းအကျပ်ခိုင်းစေခြင်းတို့ကို ပြုလုပ်ခဲ့ပြီး၊ မြန်မာအာဏာပိုင်များမှ..."
Source/publisher:
"Fortify Rights"
Date of publication:
2019-09-03
Date of entry/update:
2019-09-10
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Arakan (Rakhine) State - reports etc. by date (latest first), Discrimination against the Rohingya, Statelessness: general studies and reports, Laws, decrees, bills and regulations relating to nationality, citizenship and immigration (commentary), Burmese refugees in Bangladesh
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"The denial of citizenship to the Rohingya people is one of the foundation stones which underpins prejudice and violence against the Rohingya. Their right of citizenship is one of the top demands of Rohingya, including a key condition for refugees before returning to Burma.
A new briefing ?Rohingya Citizenship. Now or Never?? published today by Burma Campaign UK warns that political developments such as Burma?s 2020 election may mean that there is only a window of 12-18 months where there is a realistic chance of a change in the 1982 Citizenship Law and all Rohingya receiving citizenship. After this time, the election cycle and political changes in the country may mean there will never again be the opportunity that exists right now..."
Source/publisher:
Burma Campaign UK
Date of publication:
2018-07-23
Date of entry/update:
2018-08-22
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Arakan (Rakhine) State - reports etc. by date (latest first), Statelessness: general studies and reports
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"While changing a few words on a refugee?s ID card may seem inconsequential, for the 700,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh who fled ethnic cleansing in Myanmar a year ago, it is essential.
In negotiating with Myanmar for the repatriation of the Rohingya, Bangladesh recently agreed to change the wording on their ID cards from ?Myanmar nationals” to ?displaced persons from Rakhine State.”
This change signals that Myanmar doesn?t intend to honor the citizenship rights of the Rohingya, nor acknowledge the causes of their displacement ? security force operations that included murder, widespread rape, mass arson, and pillage. It also suggests Bangladesh?s willingness to dismiss the Rohingya?s rights as refugees as repatriation plans move forward.
Although the vast majority of the Rohingya are officially stateless, many have long and deep roots in Myanmar. Despite living in miserable, dangerous conditions in grossly overcrowded camps in Bangladesh, the refugees I visited there were unwilling to criticize their hosts because, as they frequently said to me, ?Bangladesh is not my country.” I heard this phrase so often that I made it the title of our report on their plight. Their country, they said, was Myanmar, and to their homes and homeland they wanted to return, they said..."
Source/publisher:
Human Rights Watch
Date of publication:
2018-08-15
Date of entry/update:
2018-08-21
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Discrimination against the Rohingya, Arakan (Rakhine) State - reports etc. by date (latest first), Statelessness: general studies and reports
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"The UN says more than 10 million people around the world do not have a country they legally belong to...They are known as the stateless. People who have neither citizenship nor a nationality.
Often it means they have no travel documents, find it difficult to get a job, and are denied access to medical care and other state services. Their plight is highlighted in a report by the UN.
The most widely covered case in recent months has been Myanmar?s Rohingya community. It became officially the largest stateless minority in the world after Myanmar passed a law in 1982 that denied the Rohingya citizenship.
Until August, there were about one million Rohingya in Myanmar, but more than half of them are now in Bangladesh after fleeing a military crackdown.
But why, in 2017, are so many people in this position? And what can be done about it?
Presenter: Martine Dennis; Guests: Melanie Khanna - Chief of Statelessness Section at UNHCR; Amal de Chickera - The Institute on Statelessness, Inclusion; Wakar Uddin - Director-General, the Arakan Rohingya Union.."
Source/publisher:
Aljazeera (Inside Story)
Date of publication:
2017-11-04
Date of entry/update:
2017-11-05
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Individual Documents
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English
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"Lives on Hold: The Human Costs of Statelessness is Refugees International?s new 50-page report that highlights the difficulties faced by an estimated 11 million individuals worldwide who have no citizenship or effective nationality. These stateless people are international orphans who have fallen through the cracks of the United Nations. They regularly cannot participate in the political process of any country and are guaranteed no legal protections. Because of their status, millions of stateless people have difficulty in obtaining jobs and owning property, receive inadequate access to healthcare and education, and suffer sexual and physical violence.
The report documents the human costs of the problem in more than 70 countries with particular emphasis on groups in Bangladesh, Estonia and the United Arab Emirates, and provides recommendations to the international community on what must be done by the UN, individual states and donor governments like the United States."
M. Lynch
Source/publisher:
Refugees International
Date of publication:
2005-02-00
Date of entry/update:
2005-02-16
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Burmese and other stateless people in Thailand and Malaysia, Burmese and other stateless people in Burma, Bangladesh and India, Statelessness: general studies and reports
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English
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Box 6.4 of the chapter on Statelessness and Citizenship from the 1997 "The State of the World's Refugees". "In most countries, babies are registered with the relevant authorities soon after
they are born, enabling them to receive a birth certificate. Without such a
certificate, it can be very difficult for a person to lay claim to a nationality or to
exercise the rights associated with citizenship. Individuals who lack a birth
certificate may, for example, find it impossible to leave or return to their own
country, register as a voter or gain access to public health and education
services..." Includes a para on the Rohingyas.
Source/publisher:
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Date of publication:
1998-00-00
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Burmese and other stateless people in Burma, Bangladesh and India, Statelessness: general studies and reports
Language:
English
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Headings include: Nationality and Citizenship; New Dimensions of Statelessness; Human and Humanitarian Implications; The Link with Forced Displacement; National and International Responsibilities; Strengthening the Legal and Institutional Regime; The Role of UNHCR; Citizenship and Internaional Security. "The Universal Declaration of Human Rights unequivocally states that ?everyone has the right to a nationality” and that ?no-one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality.” But many thousands of people across the globe lack the security and protection which citizenship can provide. A substantial proportion of the world?s stateless people are also victims of forced displacement. In some instances, individuals and communities are deprived of their nationality by governmental decree and are subsequently expelled from the country which they consider to be their home. In other situations, stateless
people are obliged to flee because of the persecution and discrimination which they experience. And having
left the country where they have lived for most or all their lives, stateless people may subsequently find it
impossible to return..." Contains references to the Rohingyas.
Source/publisher:
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Date of publication:
1998-00-00
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Language:
English
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