Rohingya refugees win prestigious UN award for storytelling about camp life

ARAB NEWS
SHEHAB SUMON
December 14, 2023 

Sahat Zia Hero, Salim Khan, Shahida Win, and Abdullah Habib, winners of the 2023 Nansen Refugee Award for Asia and the Pacific, in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. (UNHCR)  

• UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award recognizes those who help displaced and stateless people
• Winners say documenting their community’s life is an attempt to save it from being forgotten       

DHAKA: Four Rohingya refugees have won the 2023 Nansen Refugee Award in the Asia and Pacific category for using audiovisual art to document their experiences of statelessness and living in camps in Bangladesh.