Refugees

The Tier 3 ranking places Afghanistan among a small group of countries where governments or de facto authorities demonstrate a policy or pattern of trafficking or related exploitation, including the recruitment of child soldiers.

Permanent housing, reliable food assistance, income opportunities and protection from the elements are still out of reach for many in Chawkay and neighbouring districts.

Guterres has called on Taliban authorities to lift restrictions on women and girls, protect media freedom and due process, prevent further violations of the general amnesty, and end corporal punishment.

Nearly a decade after the 2017 exodus, the Rohingya crisis remains one of the world’s largest and most protracted.

The Committee’s report underscores a broader pattern in which exceptional measures and administrative practices risk normalising discrimination rather than eliminating it.

At the same time, political engagement with Myanmar and regional actors remains essential to create conditions for voluntary return.

For many refugees, the decision of whether to return involves weighing deep emotional ties to ancestral places against the practical realities of life.

For the more than one million Rohingya living in Bangladesh’s camps, the announcement offers limited immediate relief.