Source: Assessment Capacities Project
Country: Bangladesh, Indonesia, Myanmar, Thailand
Crisis Overview
One million Rohingya in Myanmar and between 300,000 and 500,000 Rohingya in Bangladesh are facing protracted crisis and dire living conditions, with restrictions on basic freedoms, access to healthcare and food assistance.
Rohingya make up the vast majority of the more than 150,000 people who have fled across the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea over the past three years, according to UNHCR estimates.
In the first three months of 2015, 27,000 people left Myanmar and Bangladesh by boat. About 300 died of starvation, dehydration, or beating by smugglers.
Upon arrival in Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia, people face detention, lack of assistance and protection concerns.