Stories covering aspects of the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar and Bangladesh.
10,000 Rohingya refugees live in swampy marshlands of Bangladesh that are little better than sewers. Back home in Burma this Muslim community fares even worse.
The Rohingya, a Muslim minority from Rakhine State in western Burma, are recognized by human rights organizations as one of the most oppressed ethnic groups in the world.
The Rohingya flee human rights abuses in Burma, only to be denied refugee status in Bangladesh.
There are 12 to 15 million stateless people worldwide, making statelessness the most overlooked and under-reported human rights crisis.
Denied citizenship by their homeland, Burma, and undocumented and unrecognized as refugees in Bangladesh, the Rohingya remain a stateless people.
Without access to schools or caretakers, refugee parents in Malaysia must lock their children away as they seek work.
In Malaysia, refugees from Burma find themselves in extreme poverty, without a national identity.
The victims of shifting borders, politics, or the happenstance of birthplace, the world's 12 million stateless people and their need to become citizens are rising on the international human rights agenda.
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