Archive for July 14th, 2023

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14/07/2023

Bangladesh: Spiraling Violence Against Rohingya Refugees

Human Wrongs Watch

By Human Rights Watch*

Protect Community From Killings, Abductions, Torture

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Security force officers stand guard after the killing of Rohingya community leader Mohib Ullah in the Kutupalong refugee camp, Bangladesh, October 2021. © 2021 Munir Uz Zaman/AFP via Getty Images
  • Bangladesh authorities are failing to adequately protect Rohingya refugees from surging violence by armed groups and criminal gangs, with layers of barriers to police, legal, and medical assistance.
  • Authorities have been forcing Rohingya leaders to serve as informants, putting them at grave risk of being abducted or killed, without access to protection.

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14/07/2023

Unaccompanied Child Migrants Traversing the Eastern Route for Work 

Dire Dawa, 10 July 2023 (IOM)* – Sixteen-year-old Abel Ahmed* has never been to school. Originally from Dera, Oromia Regional State, North Shoa Zone in Ethiopia, his family could not afford to send him to school. Instead, he was supporting his family’s small-scale farming on their piece of land where they planted sorghum. 
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“My family has problems with money. I had a plan to go to school but I could not,” he explains.

One month ago, he left home with his peers and friends to look for work, having heard of stories from family members who managed to succeed in finding work in Yemen.

A study by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) reveals that children from Habru, Dire Dawa, Bedeno and Sigmo parts of Oromia in Ethiopia reported having been subjected to forms of child labour, including hazardous work in farms in Yemen.

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14/07/2023

Mothers of Srebrenica: ‘Sadly, the killing continues in the world’

(UN News)* — The pointe shoes were a testament to unfulfilled hopes. They belonged to a young ballet dancer from Bosnia and Herzegovina whose life was forever changed by the brutal conflict that broke out in the heart of Europe at the end of the 20th century and were on display at the UN Headquarters in New York to educate visitors about the horrors of war and genocide.
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Kada Hotić holds photographs of her son, husband, and two brothers, who were lost in the Srebrenica genocide.
UN News/Hisae Kawamori
Kada Hotić holds photographs of her son, husband, and two brothers, who were lost in the Srebrenica genocide.

Among the exhibit’s visitors were members of the Mothers of Srebrenica, an association that united thousands of people – mothers, sisters, and wives – who have lost loved ones in the massacre in their city.

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