Regional response to the Rohingya violence and persecution
The Rohingya are considered the world’s most persecuted minority. They are an ethnic group made up of mostly Muslims and some Hindus and have lived in Rakhine State even before… Read more…
The Rohingya are considered the world’s most persecuted minority. They are an ethnic group made up of mostly Muslims and some Hindus and have lived in Rakhine State even before… Read more…
The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) says that while there are 65.6 million displaced people in the world, ten million of them are stateless people. According to UNHRC, a stateless… Read more…
Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma’s de facto head of state whose nonviolent struggles for democracy and human rights in Burma won her the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991, continues to… Read more…
On August 25, militants from the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), previously known as Harakah al-Yaqin, or “Faith Movement,” initiated a major counteroffensive in Rakhine state against 24 police posts… Read more…
Thanks to our amazing STAND student activists, this past year was a great success! STAND activists across the nation have participated in numerous campaigns, a national conference, four regional conferences,… Read more…
Since 2012, 120,000 Rohingya have fled from Burma in an ongoing humanitarian crisis that the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has described as involving crimes against… Read more…
STAND’s Weekly News Briefs are compiled weekly by members of the STAND Education Task Force. This week’s update focuses on violence against the Rohingya by the Burmese military; an appeal… Read more…
STAND’s Weekly News Briefs are compiled weekly by members of the STAND Education Task Force. This week’s update focuses on Yemen, Syria, and Burma. Though violence and atrocious living conditions… Read more…
Predicting future atrocities is exceptionally difficult, as one must anticipate reactions from a variety of actors within complex systems. For those of us that use these forecasts to attempt to… Read more…
STAND’s Weekly News Briefs are compiled weekly by members of the STAND Education Task Force. This week’s update focuses on Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria, and Burma. An attack on a Shia… Read more…