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Myanmar's persecuted Rohingya community are waiting for justice. A landmark genocide case at the International Court of Justice is a major step. In this episode, Noor Azizah, a survivor who heads a Rohingya civil society group, tells her family's story of being driven from their homeland. She explains why today's Rohingya trial paved the way for other atrocity crime cases, and discusses humanitarians' complex role delivering aid in Myanmar.   Guests:    Noor Azizah, co-executive director of the Rohingya Maìyafuìnor Collaborative Network   Got a question or feedback? Email podcast@thenewhumanitarian.org or post on social media using the hashtag #RethinkingHumanitarianism.   Show notes: The Rohingya: The exodus isn't over

Episode #474: Scott Aronson, a career humanitarian and conflict expert, describes his years in Myanmar between 2015 and the 2021 coup as “a really dynamic but also very challenging time to work in Myanmar.” He reflects on how his professional experience, field expertise, and moral convictions converged during a period of both democratic optimism and deepening crisis. Beginning his humanitarian career in the early 2000s, Aronson worked in Darfur and northern Uganda, where he learned the importance of coordination, adaptability, and respect for civilians in violent settings. Later, with USAID's Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance, he managed disaster and conflict responses, including the 2015 Nepal earthquake. In 2016, he became USAID's senior conflict and governance advisor at the U.S. Embassy in Yangon, supporting Myanmar's transition from dictatorship to democracy. His work focused on strengthening civil society networks and promoting inclusion in a fragile peace process. The 2017 Rohingya crisis shifted his attention to Rakhine State, where he worked with both Rohingya and Rakhine partners to provide humanitarian aid and document abuses. He calls this a time of hope mixed with heartbreak, when Myanmar's potential for democratic unity collided with long-standing ethnic and religious divisions. When the 2021 coup struck, Aronson was in Yangon under COVID quarantine. He helped coordinate emergency communication and funding for local partners after banks and networks collapsed. He credits Burmese activists with sustaining resistance, describing how local groups organized safe houses, escape routes, and covert aid despite mortal danger. Aronson argues that supporting Myanmar's democracy serves both moral and strategic U.S. interests, rejects isolationist arguments, and acknowledges the personal toll of the crisis. He remainshopeful that unity among Myanmar's diverse movements will eventually rebuild the nation: “When that day comes, and it will come,” he says, “there's going to be so much growth and opportunity in the country.”

Today's program is the third part in a series that started with the April 2025 broadcast to spotlight the genocide of Rohingya people of Myanmar. In 2017, a violent military offensive forced hundreds of thousands of Rohingya to flee across the border to refugee camps in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. More than 1.1 million people – 75% of them women and children – live there as of June 2025. There are also tens of thousands in refugee camps in Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia. This past week, on January 22, 2026, International Court of Justice began hearings on the genocide case brought by Gambia against Myanmar, Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishmen of the Crime of Genocide (The Gambia v. Myanmar). Margo Okazawa-Rey interviews feminist advocates and activists Noor Azizah and Yasmin Ullah to gather updates for listeners about the court case and the current conditions in the refugee camps where thousands of people continue to suffer beyond our imaginations. The post The Gambia vs Myanmar: Feminist Analysis of Rohingya Genocide Case at the ICJ appeared first on KPFA.

Against the backdrop of Donald Trump's tariffs, America's closest ally, Canada, has struck a trade agreement with its rival, China. Speaking in Beijing, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said the relationship with China had been "more predictable" than the one with the US. Is President Trump pushing his allies into Beijing's orbit? Also: Taiwan's tech firms will invest $250 billion in the US in exchange for lower tariffs. The government of Myanmar has begun its defence at the International Court of Justice against charges that it committed a genocide of the Rohingya people. South Korea's former president Yoon Suk Yeol is sentenced to prison for his 2024 attempt to impose martial law. And we take a look at the Africa Cup of Nations football tournament, as host nation Morocco prepares to face Senegal in the final. The Global News Podcast brings you the breaking news you need to hear, as it happens. Listen for the latest headlines and current affairs from around the world. Politics, economics, climate, business, technology, health – we cover it all with expert analysis and insight.Get the news that matters, delivered twice a day on weekdays and daily at weekends, plus special bonus episodes reacting to urgent breaking stories. Follow or subscribe now and never miss a moment.Get in touch: globalpodcast@bbc.co.uk

Comme toujours, nous commencerons notre émission par une discussion sur l'actualité. Depuis la fin du mois de décembre, des manifestations de grande ampleur ont lieu dans tout l'Iran. L'avenir de l'Iran dépend maintenant de qui tiendra le plus longtemps : le gouvernement ou le peuple. À mesure que les manifestations s'intensifient, le gouvernement iranien a de moins en moins d'options. Nous discuterons ensuite de l'ouverture des audiences devant la plus haute cour de l'ONU visant à déterminer si la Birmanie a commis un génocide contre les Rohingya. L'armée birmane est accusée d'avoir violé en 2017 la Convention des Nations unies sur le génocide de 1948 en menant des « opérations de nettoyage » dans l'État de Rakhine. Or, le gouvernement militaire de Birmanie nie ces allégations. Cette procédure marque une étape importante dans la longue bataille juridique autour du traitement réservé aux Rohingya. Dans notre section scientifique, nous débattrons de la portée d'un récent prélèvement d'échantillons de roche sous la calotte glaciaire du Groenland. Leur analyse chimique indique qu'il n'y avait pas de glace à cet endroit il y a environ 7 100 ans. Enfin, nous parlerons des mèmes sur le survêtement de Nicolás Maduro qui ont inondé les réseaux sociaux.    Le reste de l'émission d'aujourd'hui sera consacré à la langue et à la culture françaises. Notre point de grammaire de la semaine sera : The Prepositions "dans", "pour" and "par". Nous nous intéresserons à la fermeture de la plus haute tour de Paris, la tour Montparnasse et nous verrons quels sont les autres bâtiments et constructions les plus élevés de la capitale. Nous terminerons avec l'expression de la semaine, Couler de source. Nous discuterons du dernier rapport de l'Insee, qui indique que pour la première fois depuis la Seconde Guerre mondiale, il y a eu plus de morts que de naissances en France en 2025. - Iran : Une vague de manifestations historique menace le régime au pouvoir - La Cour internationale de justice enquête sur les accusations de génocide contre les Rohingya en Birmanie - Des scientifiques découvrent des faits très inquiétants concernant la fonte des glaces au Groenland - Le survêtement de Nicolás Maduro déclenche une avalanche de mèmes sur les réseaux sociaux - La tour Montparnasse va être bientôt vidée pour des travaux - Pour la première fois depuis la fin de la Seconde guerre mondiale, il y a eu plus de décès que de naissances en France

Come sempre, apriamo la puntata con l'attualità. Dalla fine di dicembre, l'Iran è attraversato da grandi proteste in tutto il Paese. Ora il futuro dell'Iran dipende da chi riuscirà a resistere più a lungo: il governo o la popolazione. Con l'aumentare delle proteste, le opzioni a disposizione delle autorità iraniane si fanno sempre più limitate. Nella notizia successiva parleremo dell'apertura delle udienze presso il principale tribunale delle Nazioni Unite per stabilire se il Myanmar abbia commesso un genocidio contro i Rohingya. Il caso sostiene che le "operazioni di sgombero" condotte dall'esercito nel 2017 nello Stato di Rakhine abbiano violato la Convenzione sul genocidio del 1948. Il governo militare del Myanmar respinge le accuse. Questo procedimento rappresenta una fase cruciale di una lunga battaglia legale sul trattamento riservato alla popolazione Rohingya. Nella sezione scientifica discuteremo il significato di una recente estrazione di campioni di roccia dal sottosuolo della calotta glaciale della Groenlandia. L'analisi chimica indica che l'area era priva di ghiaccio circa 7.100 anni fa. E infine, parleremo della valanga di meme sui social media scatenata dalla tuta indossata da Nicolás Maduro.    La seconda parte della puntata è dedicata alla lingua e alla cultura italiana. L'argomento grammaticale di oggi è Adverbs of Place. Ne troverete diversi esempi nel dialogo dedicato alle Olimpiadi invernali, che si terranno il mese prossimo tra Milano, Cortina d'Ampezzo e altri luoghi di montagna del Nord Italia. Un evento molto atteso, capace di attirare l'attenzione internazionale, ma che in alcuni casi — come a Bormio — è vissuto con più dubbi che entusiasmo. Nel finale ci soffermeremo sull'espressione idiomatica di oggi: Bando alle ciance. La troverete all'interno del dialogo dedicato a un'opera d'arte allestita in piazza Maggiore, a Bologna, durante il periodo delle feste. Un'installazione lontana dall'immaginario tradizionale del Natale e che, proprio per questo, ha suscitato discussioni e opinioni contrastanti. - La più grande ondata di proteste in Iran minaccia il regime al potere - Il tribunale delle Nazioni Unite indaga sulle accuse di genocidio del Myanmar contro i Rohingya - Gli scienziati scoprono dati molto preoccupanti sullo scioglimento dei ghiacci in Groenlandia - La tuta di Nicolás Maduro scatena una valanga di meme sui social - Bormio e le Olimpiadi invernali, più dubbi che festa - L'installazione che fa discutere Bologna

Wie immer beginnen wir unser Programm mit einer Diskussion über aktuelle Ereignisse. Seit Ende Dezember gibt es im Iran landesweit große Proteste. Nun hängt die Zukunft des Iran davon ab, wer länger durchhält: die Regierung oder das Volk. Mit dem Anwachsen der Proteste hat die iranische Regierung immer weniger Optionen. Danach sprechen wir über die Eröffnung von Anhörungen vor dem höchsten Gericht der Vereinten Nationen, wo darüber entschieden wird, ob Myanmar Völkermord an den Rohingya begangen hat. In diesem Fall wird argumentiert, dass die „Säuberungsaktionen" des Militärs von Myanmar im Jahr 2017 im Bundesstaat Rakhine gegen die Völkermordkonvention von 1948 verstoßen haben. Die Militärregierung von Myanmar weist die Vorwürfe zurück. In unserem Wissenschaftsteil diskutieren wir die Bedeutung einer vor Kurzem durchgeführten chemischen Analyse von Gesteinsproben unter dem grönländischen Eisschild. Die Analyse deutet darauf hin, dass die Region vor etwa 7.100 Jahren eisfrei war. Und zum Schluss sprechen wir über eine Flut von Memes auf Social Media, die auf Nicolás Maduros Trainingsanzug basieren. Der Rest des Programms ist der deutschen Sprache und Kultur gewidmet. Die heutige Grammatiklektion konzentriert sich auf Verbs with Prepositions (Part 2). Seit 2008 wird in Deutschland das „Instrument des Jahres" gewählt. Dies soll Musikinstrumente in den Mittelpunkt rücken, die zu wenig Aufmerksamkeit bekommen, obwohl sie aufgrund ihrer Vielseitigkeit viel populärer sein sollten. Das Instrument des Jahres 2026 ist das Akkordeon. In einem Interview im vergangenen Sommer mit der deutschen Fernsehanstalt ARD konnte – oder wollte – AfD-Politikerin Alice Weidel keine drei Dinge nennen, die in Deutschland richtig gut laufen. Vielleicht können wir beide ihr hier ein wenig aushelfen, Jana. Was ist denn alles in Butter in Deutschland? Genau das ist auch die Redewendung dieser Woche: Alles in Butter. Riesige Protestwelle im Iran bedroht das islamistische Regime UN-Gericht startet Völkermord-Prozess gegen Myanmar Beunruhigende Fakten über das Abschmelzen des Eises in Grönland Nicolás Maduros Trainingsanzug sorgt für Social-Media-Hype Akkordeon ist Instrument des Jahres 2026 Drei Dinge, die in Deutschland richtig gut laufen

Hii leo jaridani tunakuletea mada kwa kina inayomulika Mkataba wa Kimataifa wa kulinda viumbe hai wa baharini kwenye Bahari Kuu na ujumbe wa Mzee Ali Haji, Naibu Katibu Mkuu anayehusika na Katiba na Sheria katika Ofisi ya Rais, Serikali ya Mapinduzi Zanzibar nchini Tanzania kuhus umuhimu wa mkataba huu.Kesi inaendelea katika Mahakama ya Kimataifa ya Haki, ICJ mjini The Hague, kuhusu madai kwamba Myanmar ilitekeleza mauaji ya kimbari dhidi ya watu wa Rohingya. Mawakili wa Gambia wameiambia mahakama hiyo kuwa jeshi la Myanmar lilichochea ghasia kupitia kauli za chuki, likiwaita Warohingya “mbwa Waislamu”kabla ya mashambulizi ya mwaka 2017.Baada ya zaidi ya siku 1,000 za mzozo, Sudan inakabiliwa na mgogoro mkubwa zaidi wa njaa na uhamaji wa watu duniani. Shirika la Umoja wa Mataifa la Mpango wa Chakula Duniani WFP, leo linaonya kuwa operesheni zake za kuokoa maisha ziko hatarini kutokana na uhaba mkubwa wa ufadhili.Mamilioni ya raia wa Uganda leo walipiga kura katika uchaguzi mkuu wa Rais, wabunge na serikali za mitaa huku Shirika la Umoja wa Mataifa la Kuhudumia Wakimbizi UNHCR likisisitiza umuhimu wa wakimbizi zaidi ya milioni moja nchini humo kubaki bila kuegemea upande wowote wa kisiasa. Shirika hilo limeonya kuwa kushiriki katika siasa kunaweza kuwakosesha wakimbizi usalama, kupelekea mateso kutoka nchi zao za asili, au kuathiri ulinzi na hali yao ya hifadhi nchini Uganda.Na katika kujifunza lugha ya Kiswahili na leo Dkt. Mwanahija Ali Juma, Katibu Mtendaji wa Baraza la Kiswahili, Zanzibar nchini Tanzania, BAKIZA anafafanua maana na ya neno "MLOWIMA"Mwenyeji wako ni Rashid Malekela, karibu!

Wie immer beginnen wir unser Programm mit einer Diskussion über aktuelle Ereignisse. Seit Ende Dezember gibt es im Iran landesweit große Proteste. Nun hängt die Zukunft des Iran davon ab, wer länger durchhält: die Regierung oder das Volk. Mit dem Anwachsen der Proteste hat die iranische Regierung immer weniger Optionen. Danach sprechen wir über die Eröffnung von Anhörungen vor dem höchsten Gericht der Vereinten Nationen, wo darüber entschieden wird, ob Myanmar Völkermord an den Rohingya begangen hat. In diesem Fall wird argumentiert, dass die „Säuberungsaktionen" des Militärs von Myanmar im Jahr 2017 im Bundesstaat Rakhine gegen die Völkermordkonvention von 1948 verstoßen haben. Die Militärregierung von Myanmar weist die Vorwürfe zurück. In unserem Wissenschaftsteil diskutieren wir die Bedeutung einer vor Kurzem durchgeführten chemischen Analyse von Gesteinsproben unter dem grönländischen Eisschild. Die Analyse deutet darauf hin, dass die Region vor etwa 7.100 Jahren eisfrei war. Und zum Schluss sprechen wir über eine Flut von Memes auf Social Media, die auf Nicolás Maduros Trainingsanzug basieren. Der Rest des Programms ist der deutschen Sprache und Kultur gewidmet. Die heutige Grammatiklektion konzentriert sich auf Verbs with Prepositions (Part 2). Seit 2008 wird in Deutschland das „Instrument des Jahres" gewählt. Dies soll Musikinstrumente in den Mittelpunkt rücken, die zu wenig Aufmerksamkeit bekommen, obwohl sie aufgrund ihrer Vielseitigkeit viel populärer sein sollten. Das Instrument des Jahres 2026 ist das Akkordeon. In einem Interview im vergangenen Sommer mit der deutschen Fernsehanstalt ARD konnte – oder wollte – AfD-Politikerin Alice Weidel keine drei Dinge nennen, die in Deutschland richtig gut laufen. Vielleicht können wir beide ihr hier ein wenig aushelfen, Jana. Was ist denn alles in Butter in Deutschland? Genau das ist auch die Redewendung dieser Woche: Alles in Butter. Riesige Protestwelle im Iran bedroht das islamistische Regime UN-Gericht startet Völkermord-Prozess gegen Myanmar Beunruhigende Fakten über das Abschmelzen des Eises in Grönland Nicolás Maduros Trainingsanzug sorgt für Social-Media-Hype Akkordeon ist Instrument des Jahres 2026 Drei Dinge, die in Deutschland richtig gut laufen

Episode #461: “I think this time, there is even more hope for a fundamental shift and change in [Myanmar],” says Gus Miclat, co-founder of Initiatives for International Dialogue (IID). He contrasts today's Myanmar resistance with earlier elite-led struggles, seeing in it the potential for “a more systemic change.”Miclat traces his activism to high school protests in the Philippines, sharpened during Ferdinand Marcos Sr.'s dictatorship. He became a journalist, educator, and organizer, later co-founding IID in 1988 to build “South-South solidarity” linking democracy and liberation movements across Asia. Early work focused on East Timor, where IID organized the landmark 1994 Asia-Pacific Conference, defying government pressure and catalyzing a coalition that contributed to Timor's eventual independence.In 2000, IID turned to peacebuilding in Mindanao, helping to bring civil society into negotiations that led to the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region. That experience informs IID's renewed engagement in Myanmar since the 2021 coup, which Miclat views as uniquely promising because of grassroots leadership, ethnic unity, and what he calls a new “culture of care” among activists.Miclat highlights initiatives such as exchanges between Rohingya women leaders and displaced women in Marawi, which bridge local struggles with regional advocacy. He also stresses the need to adapt activism to authoritarianism's resurgence, harnessing social media without losing sight of real-world organizing. His focus is always, first and foremost, centered in the importance of people being mobilized and acting, and not on institutions, governments or media attention.“Even the smallest act,” he says, “is part of a larger effort. A little wound in your pinky is felt by your entire body… Healing one scar helps heal the whole.”

Is Nepal in Serious Danger?. Nepal's national security is facing increasing challenges amid rising geopolitical pressure, internal instability, and regional refugee movements. In this in-depth podcast, Hemanta Malla Thakuri, former DIG of Nepal Police and national security expert, Santosh Kumar Dhakal, retired Major General of the Nepal Army, and Jason Vaidya, renowned geopolitical analyst, come together to discuss some of the most critical security threats facing Nepal today. The conversation begins with the Rohingya refugee issue and the possibility of Rohingya refugees entering Nepal. The experts explain what the Rohingya crisis is, whether Nepal is being strategically used, and how refugee movements can impact Nepal's internal security and national security policy. They analyze whether these developments are coincidental or part of broader South Asian geopolitics. The discussion then expands into Nepal's national security challenges, including border security, political aggression, diplomatic tensions involving China and the United States, and concerns surrounding voting rights based on residence. The guests also examine Nepal's social issues, internal unrest, and how governance decisions—such as selling government factories—can affect long-term security. This episode provides rare insights from former top military and police leadership combined with geopolitical analysis, making it essential viewing for anyone interested in Nepal geopolitics, security threats, refugee policy, and political stability. GET CONNECTED WITH Hemanta Malla: LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/hemant-malla-25976920/?originalSubdomain=np Santosh Kumar Dhakal: LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/santosh-dhakal-a6962311/?originalSubdomain=np Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/santosh.k.dhakal? Jason Vaidya: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/jason.baidya.5/ Twitter - https://x.com/JasonDBaidya  

The UN has a new refugee chief: Barham Salih is the former president of Iraq. He takes over as high commissioner for refugees in January 2026. Salih may be a surprise pick. The head of UNHCR, the UN's refugee agency, has almost always been a European. Just as rare: The new refugee chief has actually been a refugee. But does a change at the top really address the power imbalances refugees face in the aid sector? Revisit our series, Power Shift, which puts decision-makers – and those affected by their choices – at the same table.  In this episode, Hafsar Tameesuddin, a Rohingya activist and refugee, speaks to Raouf Mazou, a senior UNHCR official. They talk about passports and privilege, and try to find common ground. ––– Power Shift is an experiment in dialogue that puts decision-makers in aid and philanthropy and those affected by their decisions in honest, one-on-one conversations about the aid sector's inequalities. ___ Subscribe on Spotify, Apple, or YouTube, or search "The New Humanitarian" in your favourite podcast app.   You can find transcripts of all podcasts on our website. Are you or anyone you know interested in participating in future Power Shift conversations? Email us with the subject line 'POWER SHIFT".  

Stell dir vor, du lebst in einer provisorischen Bambushütte und alles ist nass. Deine Kleidung, dein Bett, alles. Es ist Monsunzeit und der Regen tropft durch das löchrige Dach. Die Luft ist nicht nur feucht, sie ist nass. Wenn du Wasser holst, oder zur Toilette musst, musst du raus in den Regen. Und du bist wieder bis auf die Knochen nass. So geht es über einer Million Rohingya im größten Geflüchtetencamp der Welt. In der 64. Folge der Notaufnahme berichtet die humanitäre Beraterin **Jana Ciernioch** von ihrer Arbeit im Camp Kutupalong in Bangladesch. Sie berichtet von willensstarken Kolleg:innen, die selbst geflohen sind und im Camp leben. Mit den Moderator*innen **Anna Dushime** und **Christian Katzer** spricht sie über Perspektivlosigkeit, Würde und kleine Hoffnungsschimmer. In der letzten Folge dieses Jahres möchten wir das Schicksal der Rohingya in den Mittelpunkt rücken. Neben vielen anderen Krisen weltweit, findet ihre Lebensrealität viel zu wenig Beachtung. **Lasst uns das ändern.** Teilt diese Podcastfolge, schaut auf unseren Social Media Kanälen vorbei und sprecht mit eurem Umfeld über das, was ihr hier Neues erfahren habt. **Gemeinsam können wir uns dafür einsetzen, dass die Rohingya nicht vergessen werden.** Das haben sich die Kolleg:innen von Jana bei ihrer Abreise aus Bangladesch von ihr gewünscht ... **In dieser Episode erfährst du...** ...warum über eine Million geflüchteter Rohingya im größten Geflüchtetencamp der Welt in Bangladesch leben. ...wie das Leben der Menschen im Camp aussieht. ...wer der motivierte Kollege ist, der unbeirrbar und willensstark an Janas Seite gearbeitet hat. ...warum es so wichtig ist, Krisen wie diese auch politisch zu adressieren. ...was wir, du und ich, tun können, damit die Rohingya von der Welt nicht vergessen werden. **LINKS** - Sieh dir an, wie uns Hares durchs Camp führt und vom Leben im Camp erzählt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmEPlwTF1ls - Unser Kollege Junaid hat seinen Alltag in der Klink mit einer Sofortbildkamera dokumentiert, schau mal rein: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4bCtjjVP7W4 - Schau, über welche Straßen unsere Fahrerin Jinnathun zum und im Camp fährt: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PDuncmEqOyw - Erfahre mehr über die Rohingya und das Leben im Camp auf unserer Website: https://www.aerzte-ohne-grenzen.de/spenden/flucht-ist-kein-zuhause - Du willst mehr von Jana hören und sehen? Schau dir hier ihren Vortrag über ihren Einsatz im Camp an: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgR4lelj0Rk - Hör rein in die 46. Folge der Notaufnahme zum Weltflüchtlingstag. Da gehts vor allem um die Flucht der Rohingya und um Geflüchtete aus dem Sudan: “130 Millionen Menschen auf der Flucht. Wie hilft Ärzte ohne Grenzen?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVS5e8zpyAg **[JETZT SPENDEN](http://msf.de/spenden)** – Damit wir Menschen in unseren Projekten weltweit Zugang zu medizinischer Versorgung ermöglichen können: **FRAGEN, FEEDBACK, THEMENWÜNSCHE?** Schreibt uns: notaufnahme@aerzte-ohne-grenzen.de Instagram: [@aerzteohnegrenzen](https://www.instagram.com/aerzteohnegrenzen/) Melde dich zum [Newsletter ](https://www.aerzte-ohne-grenzen.de/newsletter-anmelden)an! Wenn dir diese Episode gefallen hat, abonniere unseren Podcast und teile ihn mit deinen Freund*innen und deiner Familie! Hinterlasse uns auch gerne eine Bewertung, um uns zu helfen, mehr Menschen zu erreichen. Dieser Podcast wurde von Ärzte ohne Grenzen e.V. in Zusammenarbeit mit Christian Conradi produziert. Redaktion und Projektleitung: Clara Schneider, Andreas Koob und Regina Bischoff. Moderation: Anna Dushime, Christian Katzer. Aufnahme, Schnitt und Produktion: Christian Conradi. V. i. S. d. P. Jannik Rust, Ärzte ohne Grenzen e. V., Schwedenstr. 9, 13359 Berlin. Bild: MSF

Episode #451: Marte Nilsen, senior researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo, joins the podcast to explore Aung San Suu Kyi's central role in Myanmar's political life. Drawing on decades of research across Myanmar and Thailand, she also reflects on Norway's complex engagement with Myanmar—from early solidarity movements and reform-era optimism to today's challenges of diplomacy, reversals, and rebuilding. Norway's involvement began in the wake of the 1988 uprising and Suu Kyi's 1991 Nobel Prize, when exiles and NGOs forged ties across the Thai border. The devastating Cyclone Nargis in 2008 highlighted the capacity of local civil society, prompting Oslo to expand support in that direction. Then when President Thein Sein launched reforms in 2011 and Suu Kyi contested the 2012 by-elections, Norway began engaging state institutions more directly again. Suu Kyi's NLD triumphed in 2015 and 2020, though ethnic groups criticized her Bamar-centric focus, and her stance the Rohingya crisis posed a very serious dilemma for Western nations otherwise wanting to support the country's democratization process. The 2021 coup, of course, ended the reform era. Nilsen stresses that Myanmar's current junta bears no resemblance to the military of 2010, back when foreign nations were willing to deal with the junta. Today, it is widely seen as a desperate, illegitimate regime that is waging war on its people. She rejects any notion that the 2025 elections could be free or fair. In the end, Nilsen insists that while outside solidarity and support matter, “the changes on the ground, it comes from the Burmese people.”

Shattered Lands by Sam Dalrymple A history of modern South Asia told through five partitions that reshaped it. As recently as 1928, a vast swathe of Asia – India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Burma, Nepal, Bhutan, Yemen, Oman, the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait – were bound together under a single imperial banner, an entity known officially as the ‘Indian Empire', or more simply as the Raj. It was the British Empire's crown jewel, a vast dominion stretching from the Red Sea to the jungles of Southeast Asia, home to a quarter of the world's population and encompassing the largest Hindu, Muslim, Sikh and Zoroastrian communities on the planet. Its people used the Indian rupee, were issued passports stamped ‘Indian Empire', and were guarded by armies garrisoned in forts from the Bab el-Mandeb to the Himalayas And then, in the space of just fifty years, the Indian Empire shattered. Five partitions tore it apart, carving out new nations, redrawing maps, and leaving behind a legacy of war, exile and division. Shattered Lands, for the first time, presents the whole story of how the Indian Empire was unmade. How a single, sprawling dominion became twelve modern nations. How maps were redrawn in boardrooms and on battlefields, by politicians in London and revolutionaries in Delhi, by kings in remote palaces and soldiers in trenches. Its legacies include civil war in Burma and ongoing insurgencies in Kashmir, Baluchistan and Northeast India, and the Rohingya genocide. It is a history of ambition and betrayal, of forgotten wars and unlikely alliances, of borders carved with ink and fire. And, above all, it is the story of how the map of modern Asia was made. The Heir Apparent by Rebecca Armitage They would always choose the Crown over their family. It was the pact they made for the honour of wearing it. Lexi Villiers is a 29-year-old Englishwoman doing her medical residency in Hobart, working too hard, worried about her bank balance, and living with friends. It's an ordinary, happy kind of life, and getting even better, because as the dawn is breaking on New Year's Day, Lexi is about to kiss the man she loves for the very first time. But by midnight, everything will change. Because Lexi is in fact not an ordinary young woman. She is Princess Alexandrina, third in line to the British throne—albeit estranged from the rest of her family and living in voluntary exile on the other side of the world. But following a terrible accident which has claimed the life of her father and her twin brother, Lexi—the black sheep of her family and, until this moment, always destined to be the spare—is now the heir apparent, first in line to the throne once her grandmother, the elderly Queen, dies. Called back to do her duty, she arrives in London to a Palace riven with power plays and media leaks, all the while guarding painful secrets of her own, not knowing who she can trust. Palace waters are treacherous, rumours are rife, and selling each other's secrets is a family tradition. And with the Crown just within her grasp, Lexi must choose what bonds she will keep ... and what she is willing to leave behind. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode #441: “I just thought, ‘Someone has to stay and bear witness,'” says Paul Greening, a veteran humanitarian with the International Organization for Migration (IOM). For decades he moved between crises—Afghanistan, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, East Timor—but Myanmar, and the Rohingya tragedy in particular, define his moral world. He first encountered the Rohingya in 2008 while in Aceh, when boats of desperate families arrived on Indonesian shores. Unprepared officials and global indifference convinced him to keep their story alive within humanitarian networks, a concern that eventually drew him to Myanmar itself. He arrived in August 2017, and felt strongly that a catastrophe was about to unfold. Weeks later, the campaign began. When his IOM contract ended, Greening stayed on in Rakhine, linking aid agencies with local civil society and supporting the 2019 White Rose campaign of interfaith solidarity. Trapped in Bangkok by COVID, he later moved to Mae Sot, where he now supports exiled youth and the wounded. “They're inspiring,” he says. “They're not giving up!” Greening finds particular inspiration in both the leading role taken in the resistance by Burmese youth, and by Myanmar's emerging cross-ethnic unity: “That's the real revolution,” he says, “ethnic cooperation.” At the same time, he has reasons for concern, such as the lack of full acceptance of women and LGBTQ youth in the movement, as well as in a future, post-conflict Myanmar. He also wants to ensure that the movement is not co-opted by career politicians who have fled the area for their own safety but intend to regain power in a post-conflict Myanmar. Greening is unsentimental about how many revolutions turn out, and the effects of trauma across generations, yet still has hope. “If [the people] can be more united,” he says, “then we move the revolution forward again.”

Episode #436: “We feel like we are not a useless person. You know, even [if] we have to flee our country and come to other country, we are still a valued person.” Dr. K, a Rohingya general practitioner, shares his journey from Myanmar to the Thai border, where he now supports the resistance by training medics and running makeshift clinics. He recalls how, as a child, his family moved to Yangon from Rakhine, but had to travel in secret because the Rohingya were barred from legal travel. After achieving high grades at school, he was accepted at medical school in 2013 because his family was able to obtain the necessary documents—that otherwise would have been denied to his as a Rohingya— through bribes; even so, he callshimself “lucky” that the admissions office did not demand a birth certificate. After graduation, he worked very hard, holding posts in a private hospital by day and running his own clinic by night. Following the 2021 coup, he quietly aided the resistance while avoiding registering his clinic. But in February 2024, Dr. K was flagged as a CDM doctor at Yangon airport, detained, questioned, and later coerced into signing an agreement to join the junta's health service. Fearing the loss of all he had built and saved, he fled in March with his wife and child, crossing illegally into Thailand. Starting anew was difficult, but he eventually focused on volunteer medicine, shuttling across the border to treat malaria, gastritis, and injuries in bamboo-walled clinics. He admits to fear—especially of aircraft— at the front, describing the psychological toll it takes even when he is safely back in Thailand. In Thailand, he is finally able to fully embraces his identity as a Rohingya. He hopes the openness he feels in resistance circles that allows this freedom of identity and expression will enable hischildren to grow up in a society free of discrimination. “I am 100% human, because I don't need to hide anything of my background, my personality.”

pWotD Episode 3121: Sheikh Hasina Welcome to popular Wiki of the Day, spotlighting Wikipedia's most visited pages, giving you a peek into what the world is curious about today.With 199,741 views on Monday, 17 November 2025 our article of the day is Sheikh Hasina.Sheikh Hasina Wazed (born 28 September 1947) is a Bangladeshi politician who served as the tenth prime minister of Bangladesh from 1996 to 2001 and from 2009 to 2024. She was the longest-serving prime minister of Bangladesh since the country's independence and the longest-serving female head of government in the world. Her premiership was characterized by dictatorship, oligarchy, and crimes against humanity. She resigned and fled to India following the July Revolution in 2024, and in November 2025, she was found guilty of crimes against humanity by Bangladesh's International Crimes Tribunal and sentenced to death in absentia.Hasina is the daughter of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladesh's founding president, and is a member of the Tungipara Sheikh political family. She had little presence in politics before her father's assassination in August 1975. Afterwards, she took asylum in India, became involved with the Awami League, and was elected as its president – a position which she continues to hold. After returning to Bangladesh in 1981, she and the Awami League became involved with the pro-democracy movement against the military rule of Hussain Muhammad Ershad, culminating in the 1990 Bangladesh mass uprising and the restoration of parliamentary democracy in the 1991 Bangladeshi general election.Following a narrow loss to Khaleda Zia's Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) in the 1991 election, Hasina, as leader of the opposition, accused Zia's BNP of electoral dishonesty and boycotted the Parliament. This was followed by violent demonstrations and political turmoil, causing Zia to resign in favour of a caretaker government. Hasina was elected prime minister in the June 1996 election, and she was succeeded by Zia in July 2001. During the 2006–2008 political crisis, Hasina was detained on extortion charges. After her release from jail, her party won the 2008 election, and she became the prime minister for a second term.During Hasina's second premiership, Bangladesh witnessed democratic backsliding and widespread human rights abuses. Her re-elections in 2014, 2018, and 2024 were criticised by international observers as being fraudulent, with the earlier and latter being boycotted by the BNP. Human Rights Watch documented widespread enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings under her government. Numerous politicians and journalists were systematically and judicially punished for challenging her views. Reporters Without Borders gave a negative assessment of Hasina's media policy for curbing press freedom in Bangladesh since 2014. A 2024 government report estimated that more than US$16 billion was annually laundered from the country during Hasina's tenure from 2009 to 2024, adding up to more than $240 billion over 15 years. Her government provided assistance to nearly a million Rohingya who had entered the country fleeing the genocide in Myanmar.In 2022, anti-government protests broke out demanding Hasina's resignation. These were followed in July 2024 by fresh student protests which demanded the reform of quotas in government jobs. The protests were met with brutal crackdown by law-enforcement agencies and paramilitary forces, resulting in massacre of students. By August, the protests intensified into a mass uprising against the government, culminating in Hasina resigning and fleeing to India. In February 2025, a UN OHCHR report found that she personally directed and coordinated the crackdown and that it may amount to crimes against humanity. In November 2025, she was convicted of crimes against humanity by Bangladesh's International Crimes Tribunal and sentenced to death in absentia. Hasina stated the trial was a "farce trial" driven by a "political vendetta."Hasina was among Time's 100 most influential people in the world in 2018, and was listed as being one of the 100 most powerful women in the world by Forbes in 2015, 2018, and 2022.This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 02:49 UTC on Tuesday, 18 November 2025.For the full current version of the article, see Sheikh Hasina on Wikipedia.This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.Follow us on Bluesky at @wikioftheday.com.Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.Until next time, I'm standard Salli.

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Writer George Orwell has had a major impact on the way we talk about and view the world. His book 1984 introduced us to words and phrases like “thoughtcrime,” “doublespeak” and “Big Brother,” which have become common parts of our vocabulary. Seventy five years after his death, his ideas around mass surveillance and propaganda continue to resonate in a world of Big Tech, challenges to democracy, and distrust of institutions.The new documentary Orwell: 2+2=5 by filmmaker Raoul Peck explores the origin of Orwell's ideas, and how they connect to political events like the January 6th insurrection, the persecution of the Rohingya people in Myanmar, and the invasion of Ukraine.Raoul Peck joins guest host Daemon Fairless to talk about Orwell's life, his words, and the ideological battle over his ideas.For transcripts of Front Burner, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/frontburner/transcripts

The fate of the Rohingya people, both in their homeland Myanmar and in refugee camps, remains uncertain. Last October, the ASEAN conference in Kuala Lumpur also saw the issue of conflicts in Myanmar being discussed. - Nasib komunitas Rohingya baik di negara asal mereka, yaitu Myanmar, maupun di tempat-tempat pengungsian masih tidak menentu. Bulan Oktober lalu permasalahan konflik di Myanmar juga sempat dibahas lagi di Konferensi Tingkat Tinggi ASEAN di Kuala Lumpur.

Episode #421: Saijai Liangpunsakul, whose first name means “the link between two hearts,” speaks of her journey through the turbulent conflict of Myanmar, and how the kindness and resilience of the Myanmar people continue to inspire her. Now a recognized expert on digital trauma and rights, she has come a long way from her small southern Thailand village. She travelled to Costa Rica on her own at 15 years on a student scholarship, and continued her global education in Canada and the US.The spark for her defining work ignited during the Arab Spring in Egypt, where she was on an exchange program from college. She witnessed firsthand technology's power for social change. This fascination changed the trajectory of her thinking about a career, and she initially joined an organization that utilized digital technology for healthcare access around the world. Then a stopover in Myanmar between work-related destinations in 2014 changed her life. She became captivated by the country and its digital revolution, and her planned two-week detour turned into six years.However, her initial perspective on the promise of technology in Myanmar hid technology's darker underbelly. Saijai saw it transform into a “digital battleground” used for hate speech and oppression, notably against the Rohingya. She recognized Facebook's complicity in this growing problem, noting that it only had two people at that time to do all of content moderation for Myanmar. Saijai also describes a “devastating” situation now unfolding in Myanmar, one that combines real-life sexual and gender-based violence with tech-facilitated abuse. To combat this scourge – and coupled with her own terrible, personal experience of being harassed online – she felt compelled to act. She co-founded Myanmar Witness to document abuses, and also Stop Online Harm, an “online ambulance” providing crucial technical, psychosocial, and legal support for survivors of digital trauma.“The answer was the community,” she says. “It is to hear the story of another woman go through abuse, how another woman can survive, and that makes me feel like I can be that too,” she affirms.

Episode #419: “I'm just doing what is right, what is wrong, what's the matter? What should I do as a human being?”After medical school, instead of choosing comfort, Dr. Myay Latt went to the Naga Self-Administered Zone — a place with no roads or electricity, where he was often the first doctor anyone had seen. He built bamboo clinics, trained villagers, and survived falls off cliffs while fighting malaria and tuberculosis. “They think I'm a strange person,” he says, laughing, “but they thank me.”His work took him across Myanmar's forgotten corners — from Chin to Rakhine, where he ignored warnings and treated patients in areas marked No Entry for Rohingya. “I just want to heal people,” he says. “Not take sides.” In Putao, near the Kachin mountains, he reached villages by boat and foot, sleeping in leech-infested huts and learning the depth of his country's suffering.When the coup came in 2021, he and friends spent the night awake in Yangon, drinking whiskey and waiting. “It's like slapping our face,” he says. Out of that shock came an idea, inspired so many decades ago by Gandhi's nonviolent crusade against the British: What if we stop their machine? He and other doctors decided then and there, to refuse to work under the junta. By morning, the Civil Disobedience Movement was born. Within days, hospitals, banks, and ministries stood still.The regime answered with bullets and airstrikes. “They're so inhumane,” he says. “Hospitals, schools — they don't care who's inside.” He calls the attacks a clear breach of international law and urges only one thing: stop bombing civilians.Today, Myay Latt leads Heartland Union, bringing medical aid to Myanmar's war zones. Many of his colleagues are gone. Still, he meditates and carries on. “Sometimes I cry at night, just hearing a Burmese traditional song,” he says softly. “But I will do whatever I can to win this revolution.”

Acht jaar na de massale vlucht van de Rohingya uit Myanmar blijft de situatie kritiek. Ondertussen waarschuwt buurland Bangladesh, dat inmiddels meer dan een miljoen Rohingya's opvangt, dat het vluchtelingen wil terugsturen. Vannacht vond er een speciale VN-conferentie plaats om internationale aandacht voor dit probleem te behouden. Is er toekomstperspectief voor de Rohingya? Daarover UNHCR-vertegenwoordiger Ivo Freijsen, die momenteel in Bangladesh is. (12: 27) Hebben Palestijnen zelf nog iets te zeggen? De Amerikaanse president Trump en de Israëlische premier Netanyahu hebben een akkoord bereikt over de toekomst van Gaza. De deal bepleit een wapenstilstand als stap richting vrede. Westen en Arabische landen klinken positief.  Grote vraag is hoe Hamas zal reageren. Maar hebben de Palestijnen zelf nog iets te zeggen over hun toekomst? Hierover de Palestijns-Nederlandse Aisja Hamed. Presentatie: Nadia Moussaid.

President Trump has declared that peace in the Middle East is "beyond very close" as he presented a new plan alongside the Israeli prime minister, with both men saying Hamas must agree to it or Israel will finish its offensive in Gaza. The Palestinian group is studying the 20 point proposal. Afghanistan is hit by an internet blackout, as the Taliban enforces what it sees as a "morality" crackdown. A federal budget stand-off is threatening to shut down the US government for the first time in almost 7 years. A trade deal that's been the cornerstone of US-Africa economic relations for 25 years expires later today. UN investigators say they've found clear evidence that the Burmese army has replaced the Rohingya villages and homes it destroyed inside Myanmar with military infrastructure. Ukraine and Russia increasingly turn to convicts, as they struggle to recruit more soliders for the war in Ukraine. A convoy including Ecuador's president Daniel Noboa is attacked by protestors angry over a cut in fuel subsidies. Plus, the so-called Bitcoin Queen, accused of stealing more than five billion dollars worth of the cryptocurrency from investors, pleads guilty to charges in London.The Global News Podcast brings you the breaking news you need to hear, as it happens. Listen for the latest headlines and current affairs from around the world. Politics, economics, climate, business, technology, health – we cover it all with expert analysis and insight. Get the news that matters, delivered twice a day on weekdays and daily at weekends, plus special bonus episodes reacting to urgent breaking stories. Follow or subscribe now and never miss a moment. Get in touch: globalpodcast@bbc.co.uk

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Encontro de Alto Nível busca soluções para aspectos humanitário e geopolítico da perseguição à minoria étnico-muçulmana; conflitos armados causam mais deslocamentos; ONU quer solução política que viabilize democracia no país. 

1) “Hamas ha pochi giorni per accettare, poi sarà l'inferno”. Trump dà un ultimatum alla controparte palestinese per accettare il piano presentato ieri con Netanyahu. I 20 punti, però, lasciano troppe questioni senza risposta. (Lorenzo Cremonesi) 2) La Spagna vieta il transito degli aerei Usa che trasportano armi verso Israele: l'indignazione di Washington. (Giulio Maria Piantadosi) 3) Stati Uniti, ultime ore prima dello shutdown. Se il congresso non troverà un accordo sui finanziamenti, a mezzanotte tutto il settore pubblico federale dovrà fermarsi. (Roberto Festa) 4) ”La prima generazione in rivolta dopo la primavera araba”. Anche in Marocco i più giovani scendono in piazza per protestare contro le promesse non mantenute. 5) All'assemblea generale dell'Onu oggi è il giorno dei Rohingya. Le nazioni unite discutono della situazione dei profughi birmani, ma nessun profugo sarà presente. 6) Rubrica Sportiva. Nella Uefa qualcosa si sta muovendo. La federazione calcistica europea deve decidere sull'esclusione di Israele dalle competizioni.

US-Präsident Donald Trump hat am Montag zusammen mit dem israelischen Ministerpräsidenten Benjamin Netanjahu seinen sogenannten Friedensplan vorgestellt. Es ist ein 20-Punkte-Plan zur Beendigung des Krieges im Gazastreifen. Doch wie realistisch ist er? Weitere Themen: · Schweizer Bildungs- und Forschungsinstitutionen haben das Netzwerk für wissenschaftliche Beratung gegründet. Es soll ermöglichen, dass sich die Wissenschaft in Krisensituationen über geordnete Bahnen einbringen und mit den Behörden kommunizieren kann. Auslöser sind die vorgängigen Herausforderungen während der Covid-Pandemie. · Heute wird in der UNO über die Zukunft der Rohingya diskutiert. Die Rohingya sind eine muslimische Minderheit, die seit Jahrzehnten in Myanmar verfolgt und unterdrückt wird. Eine Million Rohingya leben in Bangladesch – dem grössten Flüchtlingslager der Welt. Bei der UNO-Konferenz geht es nun um eine mögliche Rückkehr nach Myanmar. · Saudi-Arabien veranstaltet dieses Wochenende ein riesiges Comedy-Festival mit Comedy-Grössen aus aller Welt. Den Comedians winken grosse Gagen, teilweise in Millionenhöhe. Die Meinungsfreiheit in Saudi-Arabien ist stark eingeschränkt. Wie lässt sich dies mit einem solchen Fesitval vereinen?

 This week on Friends Like Us, host Marina Franklin talks with Memo Salazar and Lorre Fisher.  We dive into the new, reimagined Hamilton! Discover the untold stories and truths behind the legendary figure through a powerful hip-hop lens. Tune in for insightful discussions and revolutionary perspectives!  Lorre Fisher is a Jamaican-born NY resident. She is an aspiring creative and community builder. She is excited to play the role of James Madison in this production.  She was a part of the October 2022 cast of A Sketch of New York as well as a cast member in a local production of The Vagina Monologues in 2019.  As an admitted attorney, she seeks ways to integrate her love of art with her penchant for human rights and liberation. Memo Salazar is a Mexican-born DGA director, writer, and activist… and a longtime resident of Queens, New York. As a director, his work ranges from Public Enemy music videos to Elmo tackling homelessness on Sesame Street. He has collaborated with theoretical physicist Brian Greene on a Ted Talk, won 3 Emmy awards, and produced an animated series for Rohingya refugee children exiled from their home country of Burma. As an activist, he is a recipient of Arena's Five Borough Future fellowship and the 2019 Queens Latinx leadership award for his community work. He is also the current co-chair of Western Queens CLT, which brings truly affordable housing and community-owned land to New York City.. Tickets to see Hamilton Oct. 22nd Always hosted by Marina Franklin - One Hour Comedy Special: Single Black Female ( Amazon Prime, CW Network), TBS's The Last O.G, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Hysterical on FX, The Movie Trainwreck, Louie Season V, The Jim Gaffigan Show, Conan O'Brien, Stephen Colbert, HBO's Crashing, and The Breaks with Michelle Wolf. Writer for HBO's 'Divorce' and the new Tracy Morgan show on Paramount Plus: 'Crutch'.

In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Hilary Rantisi speaks with zehra imam, who launched Poetry of the Camps, a poetry program in Gaza with young writers. Basman Aldirawi and Duha Hassan Al Shaqaqi, former participants in the program who have become co-leaders of it, joined in the conversation. Basman and Duha shared what it meant for each of them to be writing poetry in Gaza during the genocide. They discussed the process of bringing students together virtually from all over the Gaza Strip, with different backgrounds and experiences, to write poetry. The themes of their sessions were miracles, homeland, the concept of colorism, love letters to Palestine, and freedom. They share a poem titled “Balsam” written by a student participant about her friend who was killed in the Israeli assault and discuss their experiences during the genocide: Basman, who was in Egypt on 10/7/23 and could not return to Gaza and Duha, who survived the genocide and was evacuated from Gaza just a few weeks ago. Basman Aldirawi (also published as Basman Derawi) is a physiotherapist and a graduate of Al-Azhar University in Gaza in 2010. Inspired by an interest in music, movies, and people with special needs, he contributes dozens of stories/poems to the online platform We Are Not Numbers and other platforms including Vivamost, Mondoweiss, ArabLit, and Written Revolution. He has contributed to the Arabic poetry anthology, Gaza: Land of Poetry, 2021 and to the English anthology, Light in Gaza: Writing Born in Fire, 2022. Basman was Illuminated Cities' inaugural Fall 2024 Poetry of the Camps-Gaza fellow. He is now part of the Illuminated Cities program team.  Duha Hassan Al Shaqaqi is a Palestinian writer, student, and storyteller who finds power in words, resilience in education, and purpose in advocacy. She was a 2024 inaugural Poetry of the Camps-Gaza fellow. Duha is now part of the Illuminated Cities program team, and her poem was featured in the 2025 Harvard Divinity School commencement speech. Raised in Gaza, she has experienced firsthand the challenges of war, displacement, and interrupted education — but also the strength of community, the value of knowledge, and the hope that creativity brings. With a background in English literature and a passion for humanitarian work, Duha writes about survival, identity, and the silent strength found in everyday moments. She has worked as a social worker during wartime and continues to pursue global education opportunities to amplify her voice and the voices of others. zehra imam is the founder of Illuminated Cities, an education organization that works on creative expression with communities impacted by systemic violence such as war or occupation. She designed Poetry of the Camps in 2024 for students in Gaza, Rohingya refugee camps, Harvard, and MIT and it continues to this day in Gaza and Rohingya refugee camps. Hilary Rantisi grew up in Palestine and has been involved with education and advocacy on the Middle East since her move to the US. She is a 2025 Fellow at FMEP and was most recently the Associate Director of the Religion, Conflict and Peace Initiative (RCPI) and co-instructor of Learning in Context: Narratives of Displacement and Belonging in Israel/Palestine at Harvard Divinity School. She has over two decades of experience in institution building at Harvard, having been the Director of the Middle East Initiative (MEI) at Harvard Kennedy School of Government prior to her current role. She has a BA in Political Science/International Studies from Aurora University and a master's degree in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Chicago. Before moving to the US, Hilary worked at Birzeit University and at the Jerusalem-based Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center. There, she co-edited a photo essay book Our Story: The Palestinians with the Rev. Naim Ateek. Original music by Jalal Yaquoub.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Rohingya refugees in Malaysia faced a surge of hostility. Online campaigns portrayed them as disease carriers, social burdens, and even threats to national security. This backlash didn't just stop at refugees themselves—it expanded to target the organisations, institutions, and humanitarian norms that supported them. Guest: Ruji Auethavornpipat (Politics and International Relations, La Trobe University) Auethavornpipat R. Radical contestation: Emotional backlash and the dismantling of refugee protection. Review of International Studies. Published online 2025:1-22 Recorded 27th August, 2025.

Episode #395: Laetitia van den Assum, a Dutch diplomat and former ambassador to Thailand, was one of nine members of the Advisory Commission on Rakhine State, a group set up in 2016 at Aung San Suu Kyi's request and chaired by former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Its mandate was to improve conditions in one of Myanmar's poorest and most divided regions. In this conversation, van den Assum reflects on the Commission's work, her dealings with Annan and Min Aung Hlaing, and the enduring challenges of Rakhine. From the outset, the military opposed the Commission because it had been established without their consent, and Min Aung Hlaing tried to push Parliament to expel the foreign members. But as van den Assum notes, “he could not stop us,” since the 25 percent of seats reserved for the military under the 2008 constitution was insufficient to block the process. Building trust among local communities was another hurdle-- the Commission had to prove that it represented everyone, not only the Rohingya. In August 2017, the Commission released its final report, containing 88 recommendations focused on peace, development, and human rights. The very next day, ARSA launched attacks on police posts, and the military retaliated with sweeping operations that drove 750,000 Rohingya into Bangladesh. Van den Assum believes these plans were already in place, describing the scale of violence as shocking but not unexpected. She continues to stress the report's lessons. Citizenship remains central: without reform of the 1982 law that excluded the Rohingya and many others, genuine progress is impossible. Long-term planning also requires accurate population data, as nearly a million people were left uncounted in the 2014 census. Looking at Myanmar today, van den Assum sees fragmentation across the country and insists that peace must precede development and rights. Calling for pragmatic international support, she warns that Myanmar cannot rely on foreign aid indefinitely and must become more self-sufficient. Yet her appreciation for the resistance effort is unwavering: “My admiration knows no bounds for those continuing to fight for their self-determination. They don't see a way back. There's only a way forward.”

Episode #393: “It's now time to be more principled and say that, ‘We would like to support democracy.'” With this statement, Audun Aagre, former head of the Norwegian Burma Committee (NBC), distills three decades of Norway's involvement in Myanmar into a call for credibility and purpose. Aagre's own engagement with Myanmar began in the early 1990s, when Burmese exiles in Norway trained as journalists with the Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB). Witnessing their dedication inspired him to travel to the Thai–Myanmar border, and later help form a Burma support group back home. He was eventually tapped to lead the Norwegian Burma Committee (NBC), an advocacy group supporting Aung San Suu Kyi and the NLD's opposition to the military. Under Aagre's leadership, NBC was broadened to include building political party capacity and working with civil society across ethnic lines. While Norway's policy was pro-democracy early on, it shifted during the Thein Sein era. Norwegian diplomats began to argue the generals had seen the light and were more popular than Aung San Suu Kyi— a view Aagre dismissed as fantasy. Norway launched the Myanmar Peace Support Initiative (MPSI), which emphasized short-term “peace dividends” like development projects, but failed to address structural issues of federalism and military control, and seemed to back the military's approach. The trust his country had built with democratic forces in Myanmar for decades all but collapsed. The Rohingya crisis then revealed the futility of believing cooperation with the military could ever be compatible with human rights. Meanwhile, business entanglements further eroded Norway's credibility. Telenor, once a symbol of empowerment as cheap SIM cards and internet spread across Myanmar, soon collided with the junta's demands for surveillance data. Forced into compliance, it eventually sold its operations—only to see sensitive information handed straight to military-linked companies. Energy ventures like SN Power's dam project and Statoil's offshore contracts followed the same pattern, funneling resources into conflict zones and, ultimately, into the generals' coffers. For Aagre, the lesson is clear: Norway must stand firmly for democracy, not realpolitik. Otherwise, compromise and “trickle-down” strategies only undermine the very struggles they aim to support. The warning resonates now, as democracies everywhere face pressure from rising authoritarianism and strategic disinformation. “If the military was able to turn Norway, then you can turn any country in the world. The symbolism of turning Norway was very high.”

ဒီတပတ် စနေသတင်းစကားဝိုင်းမှာ ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်နိုင်ငံ ကော့ဆက်ဘဇားက ရိုဟင်ဂျာအရေးညီလာခံနဲ့ ဒုက္ခသည်စခန်းတွေကို သွားရောက်လေ့လာခဲ့သူ ဒေါက်တာဒေါ်မွန်မွန်မြတ်နဲ့ ဧရာဝတီ အယ်ဒီတာ ရဲနည်တို့ရဲ့ ဆွေးနွေးသုံးသပ်ချက်ကို နားဆင်နိုင်ပါတယ်#ဧရာဝတီ #စနေသတင်းစကားဝိုင်း #ရိုဟင်ဂျာဒုက္ခသည်စခန်း #ရိုဟင်ဂျာအရေးညီလာခံ #ဒေါက်တာဒေါ်မွန်မွန်မြတ် #ရဲနည် #Rohingya 

In Containing Decolonization: British Imperialism and the Politics of Race in Late Colonial Burma (Manchester University Press, 2025), historian Matthew Bowser examines British imperialism in late colonial Burma (from roughly 1929 to 1948) to study how imperialists attempted to protect their strategic and economic interests after decolonization: they did so by supporting ethnonationalism. This process resembles the Cold War tactic of “containment,” and the book makes a crucial contribution to the study of modern imperialism by demonstrating the continuity between “containment's” late- and “neo”-colonial manifestations. For Burma/Myanmar, it also explores the origin of the present-day military junta's racial regime: it emphasizes the protection of the ethnoreligious majority from ethnic minority insurgency. The Rohingya people are currently suffering a genocide because of this racial regime. As the country endures civil war against the junta, this book highlights how ethnonationalists in the late colonial period first promoted this racial regime to seize power and prevent revolution, a process supported by British imperialists for their own ends. Matthew Bowser is Assistant Professor of Asian History at Alabama A&M University. Brad H. Wright is a historian of Latin America specializing in postrevolutionary Mexico. PhD in Public History. Asst. Prof. of Latin American History at Alabama A&M University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

In Containing Decolonization: British Imperialism and the Politics of Race in Late Colonial Burma (Manchester University Press, 2025), historian Matthew Bowser examines British imperialism in late colonial Burma (from roughly 1929 to 1948) to study how imperialists attempted to protect their strategic and economic interests after decolonization: they did so by supporting ethnonationalism. This process resembles the Cold War tactic of “containment,” and the book makes a crucial contribution to the study of modern imperialism by demonstrating the continuity between “containment's” late- and “neo”-colonial manifestations. For Burma/Myanmar, it also explores the origin of the present-day military junta's racial regime: it emphasizes the protection of the ethnoreligious majority from ethnic minority insurgency. The Rohingya people are currently suffering a genocide because of this racial regime. As the country endures civil war against the junta, this book highlights how ethnonationalists in the late colonial period first promoted this racial regime to seize power and prevent revolution, a process supported by British imperialists for their own ends. Matthew Bowser is Assistant Professor of Asian History at Alabama A&M University. Brad H. Wright is a historian of Latin America specializing in postrevolutionary Mexico. PhD in Public History. Asst. Prof. of Latin American History at Alabama A&M University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

In Containing Decolonization: British Imperialism and the Politics of Race in Late Colonial Burma (Manchester University Press, 2025), historian Matthew Bowser examines British imperialism in late colonial Burma (from roughly 1929 to 1948) to study how imperialists attempted to protect their strategic and economic interests after decolonization: they did so by supporting ethnonationalism. This process resembles the Cold War tactic of “containment,” and the book makes a crucial contribution to the study of modern imperialism by demonstrating the continuity between “containment's” late- and “neo”-colonial manifestations. For Burma/Myanmar, it also explores the origin of the present-day military junta's racial regime: it emphasizes the protection of the ethnoreligious majority from ethnic minority insurgency. The Rohingya people are currently suffering a genocide because of this racial regime. As the country endures civil war against the junta, this book highlights how ethnonationalists in the late colonial period first promoted this racial regime to seize power and prevent revolution, a process supported by British imperialists for their own ends. Matthew Bowser is Assistant Professor of Asian History at Alabama A&M University. Brad H. Wright is a historian of Latin America specializing in postrevolutionary Mexico. PhD in Public History. Asst. Prof. of Latin American History at Alabama A&M University. Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/southeast-asian-studies

In Containing Decolonization: British Imperialism and the Politics of Race in Late Colonial Burma (Manchester University Press, 2025), historian Matthew Bowser examines British imperialism in late colonial Burma (from roughly 1929 to 1948) to study how imperialists attempted to protect their strategic and economic interests after decolonization: they did so by supporting ethnonationalism. This process resembles the Cold War tactic of “containment,” and the book makes a crucial contribution to the study of modern imperialism by demonstrating the continuity between “containment's” late- and “neo”-colonial manifestations. For Burma/Myanmar, it also explores the origin of the present-day military junta's racial regime: it emphasizes the protection of the ethnoreligious majority from ethnic minority insurgency. The Rohingya people are currently suffering a genocide because of this racial regime. As the country endures civil war against the junta, this book highlights how ethnonationalists in the late colonial period first promoted this racial regime to seize power and prevent revolution, a process supported by British imperialists for their own ends. Matthew Bowser is Assistant Professor of Asian History at Alabama A&M University. Brad H. Wright is a historian of Latin America specializing in postrevolutionary Mexico. PhD in Public History. Asst. Prof. of Latin American History at Alabama A&M University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/political-science

In Containing Decolonization: British Imperialism and the Politics of Race in Late Colonial Burma (Manchester University Press, 2025), historian Matthew Bowser examines British imperialism in late colonial Burma (from roughly 1929 to 1948) to study how imperialists attempted to protect their strategic and economic interests after decolonization: they did so by supporting ethnonationalism. This process resembles the Cold War tactic of “containment,” and the book makes a crucial contribution to the study of modern imperialism by demonstrating the continuity between “containment's” late- and “neo”-colonial manifestations. For Burma/Myanmar, it also explores the origin of the present-day military junta's racial regime: it emphasizes the protection of the ethnoreligious majority from ethnic minority insurgency. The Rohingya people are currently suffering a genocide because of this racial regime. As the country endures civil war against the junta, this book highlights how ethnonationalists in the late colonial period first promoted this racial regime to seize power and prevent revolution, a process supported by British imperialists for their own ends. Matthew Bowser is Assistant Professor of Asian History at Alabama A&M University. Brad H. Wright is a historian of Latin America specializing in postrevolutionary Mexico. PhD in Public History. Asst. Prof. of Latin American History at Alabama A&M University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/world-affairs

Bangladesh has sheltered more than a million Rohingya refugees for eight years, since they fled ethnic cleansing in Myanmar. Now, the government says it cannot cope alone. As aid falls and pressure rises, what future awaits the refugees in Cox’s Bazar – and what will it take for them to return safely to Myanmar? In this episode: Tony Cheng (@TLCBkk), Al Jazeera correspondent This episode was produced by Tracie Hunte, Tamara Khandaker, and Marcos Bartolomé with Manny Panaretos, Kisaa Zehra, Melanie Marich, Farhan Rafid, and our guest host, Kevin Hirten. It was edited by Noor Wazwaz. Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our video editors are Hisham Abu Salah and Mohannad al-Melhemm. Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio.

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Thailand's prime minister has been removed by the constitutional court, plunging politics into turmoil and dealing a blow to Thailand's most powerful political dynasty. Paetongtarn Shinawatra was dismissed for violating ethics in a leaked June phone call, where she could be heard calling Cambodia's former leader Hun Sen 'uncle', and criticising the Thai army, amid worsening border tensions with Cambodia. We'll also get the latest from Gaza, where the Israeli military has recovered the body of a hostage; we'll hear about the dangerous conditions in El-Fasher in Sudan; and the aftermath of deadly strikes on Kyiv in Ukraine. In Pakistan, the government of Punjab launches large flood rescue operations; the Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni expresses outrage after a website posted pornographic and altered images of women including herself; in the United States, new trade tariffs begin on packages coming from abroad; the BBC speaks to Rohingya refugees deported from India. Also: how studying an 800-year-old oak tree could help save tomorrow's forests, and South Korea's new approach to tackling crime, using hologram police officers. The Global News Podcast brings you the breaking news you need to hear, as it happens. Listen for the latest headlines and current affairs from around the world. Politics, economics, climate, business, technology, health – we cover it all with expert analysis and insight. Get the news that matters, delivered twice a day on weekdays and daily at weekends, plus special bonus episodes reacting to urgent breaking stories. Follow or subscribe now and never miss a moment. Get in touch: globalpodcast@bbc.co.uk

Thailand's Constitutional Court has removed the prime minister, Paetongtarn Shinawatra, over her handling of a border dispute with Cambodia. We hear reaction from her party, and also ask what the news tells us about the country's turbulent politics.Also in the programme: why many small businesses around the world are now unable to send parcels to the US; and we report on how a group of Rohingya refugees were deported and left in the sea by the Indian authorities.(IMAGE: Thailand's Paetongtarn Shinawatra leaves following a press conference after the Constitutional Court ruled to remove her from office in a high-profile ethics case, following a leaked phone conversation between her and Cambodia's former leader Hun Sen, at Government House in Bangkok, Thailand, August 29, 2025 / CREDIT: REUTERS/Chalinee Thirasupa)

Eight years ago, the military in Myanmar launched a weekslong campaign of genocide against the Rohingya, a persecuted Muslim ethnic minority. Investigators from the United Nations documented the scale of the “extreme violence” they found: the killing of thousands of civilians; mass rapes of “hundreds, possibly thousands” of women and girls; nearly 400 villages burned to the ground. More than 700,000 Rohingya fled to neighboring Bangladesh where they live in squalid conditions in the world’s largest refugee camp.     Nurul Haque was born and raised in that refugee camp. About a decade ago, he started the Bangladesh Rohingya Student Union, an organization that helps expand educational and leadership opportunities for youth in the camp and advocates to stop child labor and human trafficking by criminal gangs. After being kidnapped, beaten and threatened with death by armed gang members, Haque successfully applied for refugee status in the U.S. for himself, his wife and young son. In December 2023, he and his family arrived in Portland, which he chose for resettlement because a relative lived there.     Haque joins us to share what his life is like today and his continued advocacy for Rohingya communities here and abroad.  

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Food security experts confirm famine in Gaza Sudan: UN rights office horrified by recent killings in El Fasher End impunity for violence against Rohingya in Myanmar: OHCHR