Australia asked six countries to resettle stateless Rohingya man after he began high court challenge, lawyer says

The Guardian
Nov 13,2023

Court told the government only sought resettlement options for the man, known as NZYQ, ‘under the shadow of this litigation.

The government’s duty to remove stateless Rohingya man, known as NZYQ, from Australia arose ‘well over’ three years ago, his lawyer told the high court. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP

The Australian government asked six countries to resettle a stateless Rohingya man three years after his visa refusal was finalised and after he began a high court challenge against the legality of indefinite detention.

Why aid groups, and Rohingya themselves, should stop using the term ‘stateless’

The New Humanitarian

Conflict, Interview
BANGKOK
10 November 2022

Rohingya refugees hold placards at the Kutupalong camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, to mark the fifth anniversary of their flight from neighbouring Myanmar to escape a 2017 military crackdown, on 25 August 2022.

 

The use of the terms “stateless” or “statelessness” when referring to the Rohingya population is demotivating and inaccurate, says Aung Kyaw Moe, who serves as a human rights advisor to Myanmar’s National Unity Government – the civilian government-in-exile formed in the wake of the February 2021 military coup. He’s calling for aid organisations to stop using the nomenclature and for all Rohingya to admonish its use.

Where are the world's stateless people?

bdnews24.com
Thomson Reuters Foundation Published:
07 Oct 2019

FILE PHOTO: Rohingya refugees gather at a market inside a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Mar 7, 2019. REUTERS 

An estimated 10 to 15 million people are not recognised as nationals by any country, often depriving them of basic rights most of the world takes for granted such as education, healthcare, housing and jobs.

  

The UN refugee agency is hosting a major intergovernmental meeting in Geneva on Monday to assess progress at the midpoint of its #Ibelong campaign which aims to end statelessness by 2024. Here are examples of stateless populations:

Address statelessness of minorities urgently: UN

theindepedent
15 March, 2019

“Statelessness is first and foremost a minority issue because more than three quarters of the world’s official 10 million stateless people are from minorities”

Millions around the world, including Rohingyas, are deprived of citizenship because they belong to specific minorities, UN Special Rapporteur on minority issues Fernand de Varennes has said.

Suu Kyi: Invest in Rakhine.

THE Star ONLINE
Saturday, 23 Feb 2019

New ventures: Investors looking at the schedule of the Rakhine State Investment Fair at Ngapali beach in Thandwe, Myanmar. — Reuters

NGAPALI BEACH: Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi called for investment in the crisis-hit western state of Rakhine, saying the world had “focused narrowly on negative aspects” in the state from which some 730,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled since 2017.