Endnotes
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the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission” Refugees International, March 17, 2017, https://www.
refugeesinternational.org/advocacy-letters-1/rohingya-human-rights. Sullivan, Daniel, “Still Adrift: Failure to Protect Rohingya in Malaysia and Thailand,”
Refugees International, November 2016 https://www.
refugeesinternational.org/reports/2016/rohingya;
Reynolds, Sarnata and Hollingsworth, Ann, “Malaysia:
Rohingya Refugees Hope for Little and Receive Less,”
Refugees International, November 2015. https://www.
refugeesinternational.org/reports/2015/11/17/malaysia-rohingya-refugees-hope-for-little-and-receive-less;
Reynolds, Sarnata, “Myanmar: A Tipping Point for
Rohingya Rights?” Refugees International, November 2014. https://www.refugeesinternational.org/reports/2015/10/4/myanmar-a-tipping-point-for-rohingya-rights.
2. “Burma: Military Burned Villages in Rakhine
State,” Human Rights Watch, December 13, 2016.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/12/13/burma-military-burned-villages-rakhine-state; “We Are at the
Breaking Point” Rohingya: Persecuted in Myanmar,
Neglected in Bangladesh”, Amnesty International,
December 16, 2016, https://www.amnestyusa.org/reports/we-are-at-a-breaking-point-rohingya-persecutedin-myanmar-neglected-in-bangladesh/. “Fortify Rights
Testimony before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission”, Delivered by Matthew Smith, co-founder and
CEO, Fortify Rights, March 17, 2017, http://www.fortifyrights.org/publications.html.
3. “Flash Report: Report of OHCHR Mission to Bangladesh: Interviews with Rohingyas Fleeing from Myanmar Since 9 October 2016”, UN Office of the High
Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), February 3, 2017, http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/
Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=21142. UN Human
Rights Council Resolution A/HRC/34/L.8/Rev. 1, “On
the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar”, March
22, 2017, http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/HRC/34/L.8/Rev.1.
4. “National Strategy on Myanmar Refugees and Undocumented Myanmar Nationals, Government of
Bangladesh,” International Organization for Migration (IOM), http://cxbcoordination.org/wp-content/
uploads/2017/04/National-StrategyRohingya_UMNs_
leaflet_English-4.pdf.
5. “67,000 Rohingyas Intruded into Bangladesh: Foreign Minister”, The Daily Star, January 31, 2017. http://
www.thedailystar.net/country/67000-rohingyas-intruded-bangladesh-foreign-minister-1353877.
6. “UNHCR Urges Myanmar to Protect Civilians in
Northern Rakhine State”, United Nations Refugee
Agency (UNHCR), November 18, 2016. http://www.
unhcr.org/en-us/news/briefing/2016/11/582ecb474/
unhcr-urges-myanmar-protect-civilians-northern-rakhine-state.html.
7. International Organization for Migration press release:
“Undocumented Myanmar Nationals in Bangladesh
Border Camps Need Increased Protection, Humanitarian Aid,” October 10, 2016. https://www.iom.int/news/
undocumented-myanmar-nationals-bangladesh-border-camps-need-increased-protection-humanitarian.
8. WFP Bangladesh Country Brief, May 2017. http://documents.wfp.org/stellent/groups/public/documents/
ep/wfp273241.pdf?_ga=1.128007244.1799879439.148
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9. For more on use of “shelter kits” and training see the
case of Haiti. Thomas, Alice, “Two Steps Back: Haiti
Still Reeling from Hurricane Matthew”, Refugees International, April 2017 https://www.refugeesinternational.org/reports/2017/4/6/haiti.
10. See Art. 31, The Constitution of the Peoples Republic
of Bangladesh, which states, “To enjoy the protection
of the law, and to be treated in accordance with law, and
only in accordance with law, is the inalienable right of
every citizen, wherever he may be, and of every other person for the time being within Bangladesh, and
in particular no action detrimental to the life, liberty,
body, reputation or property of any person shall be taken except in accordance with the law.”
11. 2017 Trafficking in Persons Report, U.S. Department
of State, June 2017. https://www.state.gov/j/tip/rls/tiprpt/.
12. Latiff, Rozanna and Harris, Ebrahim, “Sold into Marriage- How Rohingya Girls Become Child Brides in
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