Expert Commentary by Dr Asher Hirsch Southeast Asia is a region that hosts a significant number of refugees, yet struggles with providing adequate protection and rights due to various challenges, including a lack of legal frameworks, funding, and regional cooperation. This Expert Commentary focuses on the role donor states, especially those in the Global North,…
16 January 2023 – DHAKA, Bangladesh: Without comprehensive regional and national approaches to refugee protection in Southeast Asia, more than 150,000 Rohingya in Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia currently rely on a patchwork of policies that offer them limited, if any, protection. A new report supported by the Protecting Rohingya Refugees in Asia (PRRiA) project, funded…
This snapshot explores the experience of smuggling among Rohingya refugees en route to Indonesia, with the key objective of contributing to evidence-based advocacy efforts and protection responses for Rohingya refugees. This snapshot draws on data collected between December 2021 and May 2022 from 132 Rohingya refugees in Indonesia. Respondents were surveyed in cities across Sumatra…
The ‘Protecting Rohingya Refugees in Asia’ project brings together the Danish Refugee Council, the Asia Displacement Solutions Platform, the Mixed Migration Centre, Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) Indonesia, HOST International, and the Geutanyoë Foundation to enhance regional protection responses in support of Rohingya refugees. Through support from the European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO),…
Governments across Asia must immediately undertake coordinated search and rescue operations for the hundreds of Rohingya refugees – including women and children – currently adrift at sea. Bangkok, 23 December 2022: ‘Protecting Rohingya Refugees in Asia’ (PRRiA) project partners, including the Asia Displacement Solutions Platform (ADSP), the Danish Refugee Council (DRC), Geutanyoë Foundation Malaysia, HOST…