By Anab Khan As the 2021 Taliban takeover of Kabul reaches its 1-year anniversary, complete media silence on Afghanistan reigns, even...

By Zoe Lee On June 24th, 2022, the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, and along with it Planned Parenthood v. Casey on a...

By Zoe Lee Ms. Lee is a Program Associate at Burma Task Force and a fellow of the NYU Gallatin Global Fellowship in Human Rights The...

By Eric Han The Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands The International Court of Justice (ICJ) met last month to hear Myanmar’s...

By Marta Tsvengrosh, LL.M. Ukrainian refugees seeking shelter under a destroyed highway It was 5 am on February 24 when an explosion woke...

By Kevin Tang “We are scared to return to Myanmar because if we go, they will kill us.” Chilling, these words uttered by Rohingya refugee...

By Zubaidah Chowdhury “My daughter shook me and said, ‘Mom, get up. The house is on fire. You’re burning,’” painfully recalls Mumtaz...

By Kelly Su The cries of the Rohingya wail, “Please, I have no place to call home and nowhere to go. I am only a displaced person denied...

By Jason Tan 727,000. To ignorant bystanders, this number represents nothing; to Rohingya refugees this number represents everything....

By Elena Li In 1997, a band of masked attackers with ties to the municipal government sprung from the forests of Chiapa, Mexico,...

By Iftida Faria “Please don’t kill my baby”, begged the mother as the Myanmar police snatched her child away. While the Rohingya crisis...

By Anab Khan Over 700,000 men, women, and children have been displaced from their ancestral home in the worst ongoing humanitarian crisis...

By Kelly Su In this interview, Kelly Su (JS Scholar 2019) consults Myanmar research consultant Dr. Jennifer Leigh about her work and...

By Fiona Neibart “Maggots.” “Rapists.” “Dogs.” These slurs—translated from Burmese and aimed at Rohingya—are among more than a thousand...

By Zubaidah Chowdhury In this interview, Zubaidah Chowdhury (JS Scholar 2018) talks to Human Rights Lawyer and Professor Chaumtoli Huq...

By Anab Khan In this interview, Anab Khan (JS Scholar 2019) talks to Kamal Ahmad about the complex and important relationship between...

By Eric Han Gudar Mia, an eighty-year-old Rohingya refugee in Bangladesh, with smoke-filled lungs, croaks an old Rohingya folk song. The...

By Yotam Peer Men, women, and children of all ages sit hunched together. Their clothes are raggedy, and they fill each hut and room to...

By Tasnim Anika In this interview, Tasnim Anika (JS Volunteer 2020) talks to Dr. Ruhul Abid about his organization, Health & Education...

By Vincent Jiang The irony of the Rohingya crisis is that a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing”, in the words of UN High Commissioner...