“ For fear of being arrested and mistreated, the already marginalised stateless communities are now scared to go out to purchase their groceries, let alone access other basic emergency healthcare assistance. How far have we gone in allowing the bureaucracy to give or take away human rights? Maalini Ramalo, DHRRA Malaysia Contents Introduction & Recommendations.......................................................................................................3 Towards a coalition of the excluded....................................................................................................7 Health & wellbeing........................................................................................................................................9 Survival & livelihoods................................................................................................................................13 Hate speech, racism & xenophobia....................................................................................................16 The Rohingya..................................................................................................................................................19 Border closures & movement restrictions....................................................................................22 Insecurity & detention..............................................................................................................................24 New risks of statelessness.....................................................................................................................27 Sustaining engagement on statelessness & the right to a nationality.........................30 ISI’s COVID-19 response...........................................................................................................................37 Acknowledgements & methodology.................................................................................................38 © Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion, June 2020, info@institutesi.org - www.institutesi.org Cover Images: Council of Minorities, Bangladesh ISBN: 9789082836677 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, translated or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission of the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion. Whilst the authors, editors and publisher have tried to ensure the accuracy of this publication, the publisher, authors and editors cannot accept responsibility for any errors, omissions, misstatements, or mistakes and accept no responsibility for the use of the information presented in this work. 2