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The Dr. Joanne Liu Interview, international president of Médecins Sans Frontières

Mark Leon Goldberg
December 4, 2017
Dr. Joanne Liu is the International President of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), otherwise known as Doctors without Borders. She is a Canadian Pediatrician by training and has been with MSF for almost her entire career. She became the international head ...

Bangladesh Wants to Deport Rohingya to a Remote and Uninhabitable Island

Joanne Lu
September 12, 2017
Bangladesh is forging ahead with a controversial plan to settle hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees from Myanmar on an isolated, undeveloped, flood-prone island in the Bay of Bengal. According to the latest estimates from U.N. officials, 313,000...

Video: This is what the Journey of 123,000 Fleeing Rohingya Refugees Looks Like

Mark Leon Goldberg
September 5, 2017
The Rohingya are a  long discriminated against minority community that live primarily in Myanmar. They are religiously Muslim and an ethnic minority that has faced marginalization by the government and population of Myanmar. Over the years, hundreds of thousan...

A Small Cyclone Just Caused Major Damage in South Asia. (Yet Another Reason Trump Should Stick With the Paris Agreement)

Kimberly Curtis
June 1, 2017
Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Myanmar are facing a major clean up after Cyclone Mora hit the area earlier this week. Overall, government officials estimate that 17,500 houses were destroyed in Bangladesh and search operations continue for dozens of missing people,...
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PODCAST: New evidence of systematic sexual violence committed against Rohingya people in Myanmar

Mark Leon Goldberg
February 9, 2017
Crimes against humanity are ongoing in Burma and they are being committed by the state against the Rohingya people. This is a minority community in Burma that has historically faced intense discrimination, but there was some degree of hope that as the c...

One Year After the Rana Plaza Disaster, Reforms are Piecemeal

Kimberly Curtis
April 24, 2014

The world has not learned from this disaster.

Here’s How to Improve Factory Safety in Bangladesh

David Atkins
January 27, 2014

A new multinational legal agreement must ensure worker safety

A Violent and Flawed Election in Bangladesh

Penelope Chester
January 6, 2014

A bad day at the polls.

Map of the Day: Cyclone Mahasen

Mark Leon Goldberg
May 14, 2013

Bangladesh faces yet another disaster with profound consequences for human rights.

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