India lambasted for deporting Rohingya refugees to Myanmar in violation of international law

“The ethnic cleansing of Rohingya started in 2012 but at that time, not much of it was reported. So my family and I took asylum in India,” he said. The Rohingya community in India lives in a precarious situation, often encountering suspicion and harassment from police and residents. In 2021, the Indian government detained 270 … Read more

What’s really at stake in the US moves to target TikTok? | Social Media

Who owns the narrative? If United States lawmakers are to be believed, it is currently at risk of being hijacked by China, disseminated on de-facto spyware by impressionable youth swiping short-form videos in their bedrooms. Official tutting at TikTok, owned by China’s ByteDance, is nothing new. The prospect of a ban has been looming for … Read more

Rohingya refugee’s plight in Indonesia highlights challenges, dilemmas in humanitarian response

Azizah’s mother was a victim of human trafficking when she met her future husband. “He had to buy her from her agent in order to free her from bondage,” Azizah said. Fake UN accounts spewing anti-refugee hate feed Indonesia’s Rohingya rejection Though exiled from their country of birth, her parents had big dreams of a … Read more