Hundreds of thousands Rohingya refugees are fully outside from all the aid schemes and are fallen on a continuous threat of food insecurity in the Bangladesh border. There is an emergency needs of protracted displacement of Rohingyas in Asia and create sustainable strategy for rethinking Rohingya issues. The Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland, Finland and the Faculty of Law at the University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh will organize common human rights seminar September 2016 in cooperation with several human rights institutions and Universities in Bangladesh to disseminate knowledge and best practices among a wider audience.

The objective of the seminar is to focus on a human violation
and the primary consideration will be given to Rohingyas’ access to food and
healthcare. The target group is policy makers, researchers, practitioners, local
activists, Governmental officials and international and national NGOs´. FinCEAL Plus
project, financed by the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture, has been awarded
a grant to organize the seminar.

– The refugee situation
is global challenge and we must do cooperation to develop the situation, to share
the knowledge by disseminating best practices and to find innovative ideas to solve
global challenges, says researcher Nafisa Yeasmin from the Arctic Centre at the
University of Lapland. She works as a project coordinator at the ESR funded project,
Foreign Lounge (FOLO), which goal is to support immigrants to get access to the
labor markets in Finnish Lapland. Nafisa Yeasmin is also founding chairperson of
Arctic Immigrant Association in Lapland.

– In Finland and
in Scandinavia, we have been trying successfully to deal with security issues of
immigrants e.g. home, food, health care and job opportunities. We would like to
explore, what are the policies for implementing a security awareness on the other
side of the World and why Rohingya case is the failure of the international
protection regime.

Rohingyas are the indigenous group and
religious minority in Myanmar. They are the most persecuted refugees in the world
who are denied to use their identity and have been stateless for many years.

More information:

Nafisa Yeasmin
Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland

tel. +358 40 484 4256, nafisa.yeasmin(at)ulapland.fi

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