ZIRC's Blog – March 2011 Archive (2)

BANGLADESH: New ID card policy could hit Rohingya asylum-seekers

New ID card will make it even harder for Rohingya men to get work

DHAKA, 29 March 2011 (IRIN) - The introduction of national ID cards may lead to further institutionalized discrimination of Burmese Rohingya asylum-seekers (unregistered refugees) living in southeastern Bangladesh, experts warn.

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Suhakam: Many Myanmar refugees have UNHCR cards, but still picked up

©The Star (Used by permission)

by SHAILA KOSHY and STEVEN DANIEL

KUALA LUMPUR: Myanmar refugees picked up by the authorities should be released to non-governmental groups which are prepared to stand as guarantors while their United Nations’…

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