Broken Heartland: Armed Violence and Emergency Response in Central Myanmar
Executive Summary Prior to the February 2021 military coup, the ‘heartland’ regions of Sagaing, Magway, and Mandalay were among the more peaceful areas of Myanmar, with little organised armed violence to speak of. However, since the February 2021 coup, these regions have become the site of some of the most active anti-coup resistance activity in […]
Report on the Civil Society Consultations for the Brussels VII Conference on “Supporting the Future of Syria and the Region”
Executive Summary This report summarises the findings of the EU’s civil society consultations in advance of the seventh Brussels Conference on Supporting the future of Syria and the Region, which will be held on 14-15 June 2023. The consultations took two forms: in-country consultations with civil society organisations (CSOs), and an online survey of Syrian […]
Situation Update: Camp Closure Crisis
Current Situation Reports emerging across Myanmar indicate that, in early September, the State Administration Council (SAC) ordered IDPs from some townships in Rakhine, Chin, and Shan States to leave their camps and return to their areas of origin. One source who spoke to this analytical unit said this order is rumoured to be intended for […]
Camp Closures Current Status (November 2022)
Background This brief update on the current status facing IDPs in Rakhine, Chin, and Shan States follows an October 2022 report, Situation Update: Camp Closure Crisis. That report detailed several roughly simultaneous State Administration Council (SAC) orders to close IDP camps in three different states across Myanmar, with most deadlines given as the end of […]
Camp Closures: Current Status (April 2023)
Background In October 2022, this analytical unit reported several State Administration Council (SAC) orders to close IDP camps in Rakhine, Chin, and Shan States, with most deadlines given as the end of that month.[1] Responses to the SAC’s closure orders, some of which were detailed in a November 2022 follow-up report, varied widely depending on […]
Camp Closures: Current Status in Kachin State (February 2023)
Background In October 2022, this analytical unit reported several nearly simultaneous State Administration Council (SAC) orders to close IDP camps in Rakhine, Chin, and Shan States, with most deadlines given as the end of October.[1] Responses to the SAC’s closure orders, some of which were detailed in the November 2022 follow up report, varied widely […]
Camp ‘Closures’: Current Status for Rohingya and Kaman Muslims in Kyaukpyu and Sittwe (May 2023)
Background Camps in Rakhine State can be generally understood as falling into two broad categories: (1) camps hosting Rohingya and Kaman Muslim people who were displaced as a result of intercommunal violence in 2012, and (2) camps primarily hosting people displaced by fighting between the Arakan Army (AA) and the Myanmar military in 2018-2020. For […]
Evolving Patterns, Unchanged Suffering: Rohingya Trafficking Trends in 2022
Executive Summary Since the 1 February 2021 coup, Rohingya communities in Rakhine State have endured tightening movement restrictions, a lack of job opportunities, rising living costs, and even greater precariousness in terms of their legal status. The nearly 1 million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh have not fared much better, facing such a sharp deterioration in […]
Durable Solutions and Early Recovery in Syria
Syria remains the world’s largest displacement crisis, out of 6.9 million IDPs 78 percent have been displaced for at least five years. While the rate of displacement has slowed along with a reduction in active conflict, thousands continue to be displaced each month, with the majority reporting having been displaced more than three times — […]
