ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Written by: Natalie Brinham, Vera Karanika, Kathy Win and Samanwita Paul. Samanwita Paul is a Doctoral Student at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her research centres on the Displacement and Politics of Representation of the Rohingya women refugees in India. Prior to this she has done her M.Phil. on Women’s Political Participation in Grassroots democracy in India. Her areas of interest include Feminist Studies, Political Geography and Refugee Studies. Kathy Win is pursuing a MRes. in Social Science as part of her PhD programme at the University of East Anglia. She holds an MSc. in Violence, Conflict and Development Studies from SOAS University of London. She was a research fellow of the CARA’s fellowship programme and worked at the Department of Development Studies, SOAS University of London from 2021-2022. Research co-ordinated by Natalie Brinham with support from Nay San Lwin, Ali Johar and Vera Karanika. Field research by: Kathy Win (Myanmar and Bangladesh), Samanwitha Paul (India), Razia Sultana (Bangladesh), one anonymous Rohingya woman researcher (Bangladesh), and four anonymous Rohingya researchers in Rakhine State Myanmar. Additional expert consultations with: Sharifah Shakira from Rohingya Women Development Network (Malaysia), anonymous Rohingya man (Malaysia), anonymous Rohingya woman (India) and Khin Maung from the Rohingya Youth Association (Bangladesh). This paper is a joint publication of the Free Rohingya Coalition, Rohingya Women Development Network, Rohingya Youth Association and Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion. About the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion and this initiative. The Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion (ISI) is the first and only human rights NGO dedicated to promoting the right to a nationality and the rights of stateless people globally. ISI envisions a world in which everyone’s right to a nationality is respected, securing inclusion, equality and rights for all. The root causes of the depravations and marginalization endured by the Rohingya community over multiple decades, are based on racist, discriminatory and xenophobic ideologies, laws and policies. While Myanmar is the source of these depravations, other countries have also failed to provide meaningful protection, status or rights to Rohingya who have either fled to these countries or been born in them. In this context, a principled and sustained human rights framing of the challenges, which is rooted in the information, expertise and solutions put forward by Rohingya activists, and which challenges and shapes responses to the crisis by states, UN agencies, humanitarian actors and others, is much needed. This initiative aims to provide such a framing, through the production of briefing papers and other interventions on different human rights challenges. This is the sixth paper to be produced in this series since August 2020. This paper builds directly on the research and themes of the previous ISI briefing papers: • Dangerous Journeys through Myanmar: Insecurities and Immobilities for Rohingya and Muslim Women in Post-Coup Myanmar • Failure to Protect: The Denial of Status, Detention and Refoulment of Rohingya Refugees in India 3