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Joint NGO Statement to the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights on the Protection of Refugees in Southeast Asia

March 24, 2010

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We, the undersigned, appeal to the newly-established ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) to take into consideration the poor protection of the rights of refugees in this region as it meets on 28 March 2010 in Jakarta. We note with great interest that the AICHR has identified a study on migration as one of [...]

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Thai-Burmese Border Camps Braced for New Refugee Flow

9 February 2010

Monday, February 8, 2010 Source : Irrawady MAE SARIANG, Thailand — Saw Phad Klo spent a week trekking through the jungles of Burma’s Karen State with his wife and children. Like many others who take similar journeys, they weren’t sure where they were going but knew they had to leave and find a new place [...]

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The terrifying voyage of Burma’s boat people

24 November 2009

Here’s a formula for making a killing in times of crisis. Go to the south-eastern tip of Bangladesh, on the border with Burma, and buy an old fishing boat. It’ll cost 100,000 taka, or about £900. Then budget 450 pounds, for rice and drinking water, and maybe another £450 for bribes. Then head off and trawl for clients among the most destitute communities in Bangladesh – a country so densely populated country and so poor that for Britain to be on similar economic terms it would have to have a population of 200 million with an average income around four per cent of what a Briton’s is today.

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Joint Statement on the Requirements of a Regional Solution for the Rohingya

6 March 2009

We, the undersigned organizations, wish to express our support for the development of a regional solution to the plight of the Rohingya that is founded upon a respect for their rights and draws upon the support of the international community. However, we are concerned that while regional solutions have been discussed, including at the recent [...]

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Joint Statement on the Treatment of Rohingya and Bangladeshi ‘Boat People’ in Asia

6 February 2009

We, the undersigned organisations, are extremely concerned about the treatment of over a thousand Rohingyas from Burma and migrants from Bangladesh who have been forcibly expelled and abandoned in international waters by the Thai security forces since December 2008. Over the past few weeks, several boats have been rescued off the coasts of Indonesia and [...]

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