OTHER RESOURCES ON COVID-19
AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Contributing Organisations websites:
British Rohingya Community (BRC)
Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK)
Canadian Rohingya Development Initiative (CRDI)
Elom Empowerment
Free Rohingya Coalition (FRC)
Rohingya Human Rights Initiative
Rohingya Women’s Development Network
RW Welfare Society
Rohingya Youth Organisation
Webinars involving participants
(English language):
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‘Her Voices, Her Journey: The Gendered
Experiences of Rohingya Women’, Moderated
by Yasmin Ullah
‘Hunger, Exploitation, Hate Crime, and
Xenophobia: Rohingyas on Land and Sea’
RMMRU and FRC
‘Human Rights and COVID-19: What now
for the Rohingya?’ ISI and FRC
Resources authored by participants
(English language):
ABOUT THIS INITIATIVE
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The root causes of the depravations and marginalisation
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, whether they fled to their country or
were born there.
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Sirazal Islam, The Diplomat (2020) ‘A Rohingya
coronavirus catastrophe looms if their internet
blackout continues [online] available at: https://
thediplomat.com/2020/03/a-rohingya-coronaviruscatastrophe-looms-if-their-internet-blackoutcontinues/
Lucky and Khin Maung, Rohingya Youth
Association (2020) Providing access to information
and healthcare for Rohingya survivors will save
lives in Bangladesh [online] available at: https://docs.
google.com/document/d/1NBJnqZOd5X3olEZ_
BrreMDDPSpIaouZFkNrZblbQCGc/edit
Yasmin Ullah et al, Independent Diplomat (2020)
The Rohingya and COVID-19: Towards and
Inclusive and Sustainable Policy Response [online]
available at: https://independentdiplomat.org/wpcontent/uploads/2020/07/200618-ROH-Covid-ReportID.pdf
Razia Sultana (2020), video Facing a Pandemic in
the Dark: An Update on Cox's Bazar & COVID-19,
with Razia Sultana
RHRN, Essay about internet lockdown and its
impact
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. While this first paper
looks at the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the immediacy
of the crisis, future papers will look at other structural
human rights challenges which must be addressed.
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