Myanmar (Burma)

• Myanmar (Burma)

Richie Nath is 27-year-old painter who fled Myanmar after the 2021 military coup. He is now a refugee in Paris where he continues to paint artworks criticizing the Burmese military junta's brutal repression of dissent. Rights groups and investigative media have documented Myanmar's systematic killing, enforced disappearance, torture, rape and other sexual violence against protesters since the coup and the country's continued ethnic cleansing of Rohingyas since 2012.

• Afghanistan
• Ethiopia
• Mexico

More than 50,000 people have died on global migration routes since 2014, according to the latest numbers released by the United Nations.

• Afghanistan
• Myanmar (Burma)
• South Sudan

Only 68% percent of refugee children have access to primary school education, and only 37% to secondary school education, according to a new report by UNHCR.

• Bangladesh
• Myanmar (Burma)
• European Union

Bangladesh has taken in over a million Rohingya after they were forced out of Myanmar. Now, the Bangladeshi government is pressuring the EU to help repatriate them.

• Lebanon
• Myanmar (Burma)
• Syria

The United Nations says more than 100 million people are currently displaced as World Refugee Day is observed. The day has seen protests, cultural events and pleas for assistance.

• Afghanistan
• Congo - Kinshasa
• Myanmar (Burma)

Conflicts and natural disasters forced tens of millions to flee within their own country last year, pushing the number of internally displaced people to a record high, monitors said Thursday.

• Bangladesh
• Iraq
• Myanmar (Burma)

The UN refugee agency UNHCR has urged governments around the world to do more to help stateless persons on the seventh anniversary of their #IBelong campaign.

• Bangladesh
• Burkina Faso
• Myanmar (Burma)

The UN refugee agency UNHCR has launched a new data visualization showing how climate change is contributing to drive new displacement and increase the vulnerability of those already forced to flee.

• Bangladesh
• Ethiopia
• Myanmar (Burma)

To mark World Refugee Day this June, the UNHCR is encouraging people around the world to count the steps they walk, run and cycle and register on a website. The aim? To cover the distance that refugees are forced to walk every year in order to reach safety. The campaign aims to honor the efforts families make to survive, the UNHCR says.

• Afghanistan
• Iraq
• Myanmar (Burma)

Women and girls account for 70 percent of global human trafficking victims, according to a United Nations report. Most victims are trafficked for sexual exploitation, with the report warning of "vast areas of impunity."

• Congo - Kinshasa
• Myanmar (Burma)

In 2016 the UN refugee agency began developing a new framework for responding to large movements of refugees. The Global Compact on Refugees will be delivered to the UN general assembly later this year.

• Bangladesh
• Italy
• Libya

Hundreds of thousands of people belonging to the Muslim Rohingya community have fled to Bangladesh after being pushed out by local ethnic groups in Myanmar. Could the crisis spill over to Europe?