Working and discussion papersApril 2020Karen Hargrave, Kerrie Holloway, Veronique Barbelet and M. Abu EusufCox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Photo: MedGlobalBetween August and October 2017, more than 700,000 Rohingya people fled from Rakhine State, Myanmar to Bangladesh. This was the latest of several instances of Rohingya displacement from Myanmar since the late 1970s.Almost in parallel, in mid-2017, consultations were underway in Geneva towards a long-awaited Global Compact on Refugees (GCR).The sheer complexity of the Rohingya crisis in Bangladesh provides an opportunity to stress test some of the GCR’s objectives and assumptions, while also exploring what these principles might look like in practice.This report explores how far the GCR – adopted by 181 UN Member States, including Bangladesh, in December 2018 – has informed the response to the Rohingya crisis. It analyses the extent to which the GCR has explicitly been used in the context, alongside how far its principles have been applied ‘in spirit’, as well as identifying opportunities to use the possibilities presented by the GCR to improve outcomes in the Rohingya response.Read the research The Rohingya response in Bangladesh and the Global Compact on Refugees: lessons, challenges and opportunitiesDocumentRelated The Global Compact on Refugees: lessons from BangladeshThis briefing note outlines the use, applicability and relevance of the Global Compact on Refugees in relation to the Rohingya crisis.Briefing papers10 December 2019 The Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework: responsibility-sharing and self-reliance in East AfricaIs the ‘new way of working’ for refugees actually working? This paper assesses progress under the CRRF in four East African countries.Working and discussion papers24 September 2019 Rohingya refugees’ perspectives on their displacement in Bangladesh: uncertain futuresHow life in protracted displacement could be improved, according to Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.Research reports and studies7 June 2019 Dignity and the displaced Rohingya in BangladeshThis case study explores how Rohingya refugees perceive dignity and whether they believe the humanitarian response in Bangladesh is upholding their dignityWorking and discussion papers23 August 2018See more:humanitarian policyhumanitarian systemsdisplacementmigration and refugeesBangladeshMyanmar
