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LONDON: Only two regional media outlets — CNN Arabic and London-based Asharq Al-Awsat — have corrected a mistake relating to coverage of late Saudi Oil Minister Ahmad Zaki Yamani. Following his death on Feb. 23, the aforementioned outlets were two of many that mistakenly reported that he was the first secretary-general of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) — despite OPEC itself confirming this was not the case. The common mistake was exposed at the time by the Arab News Research & Studies Unit, which tracked coverage of Yamani’s death and found that most Saud...

LONDON: Al-Hawl and Al-Roj, two squalid, horribly overcrowded detention camps in northeast Syria, are home to some 70,000 people — around 80 percent of them women and children — all in some way associated with Daesh, the terror group that dominated a third of the country and whole swathes of neighboring Iraq between 2014 and 2017. Among them, some 27,500 children are waiting

LONDON: Four years have passed since Myanmar’s military crackdown drove more than 742,000 mostly women and children of the Rohingya minority over the border into Bangladesh — a mass displacement which UN investigators say amounts to genocide. Now, in the wake of the Feb. 1 coup, the Rohingya are again left wondering what lies in store for them. Myanmar's military, known as Tatmadaw, seized power in a bloodless coup on Monday, detaining Aung San Suu Kyi, the State Secretary; President Win Myint; and several other senior cabinet ministers just hours before parliament was due to reconvene f...

The Straits Times Dignity in the Rohingya humanitarian response: Daily Star contributors The nature of authoritativeness between NGO staff and Rohingya community members leads to discrimination, say the writers. Many Rohingya women hesitate to receive medical treatment from male doctors and some feel disrespected if they have to wait in queues with men to receive medical services, says the writers.PHOTO: AFP Mohammad Azizul Hoque and Jessica Olney PublishedDec 24, 2020, 11:50 am SGT https://str.sg/JRMj They can read the article in full after signing up for a free account. Share link: Or shar...

Reinforcing Respect: Considering dignity in the Rohingya humanitarian response Rohingya refugees camps in Cox’s Bazar. Photo: Reuters/Mohammad Ponir Hossain In our work as researchers with the Centre for Peace and Justice (CPJ), BRAC University, we strive to understand refugee community concerns, which we share in turn with the humanitarians and decision-makers. From June to November 2020, 30 Rohingya refugee volunteers working with us under CPJ's Refugee Studies Unit in Cox's Bazar consulted over 3,000 other camp residents to address emerging concerns and questions during the Covid-19 pand...