An estimated hundred Rohingyas protested outside the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) office in Kathmandu, on 27th June, in a bid to raise the office’s attention towards their plight. Clashes also ensued during the protests, in which a demonstrator was injured.
Rohingyas have listed an eleven point demand:
- Ensure our fundamental rights as granted by the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948).
- Ensure 100% support to our children who study in private schools, and ensure their rights as granted by the UNCRC (1989).
- Provisions for legal work permits and the freedom to choose professions ourselves in accordance with UN Declaration of Human Rights (1948).
- Change discriminatory policies and provisions against us.
- Monthly supports for subsistence, until provisions for work permits are made.
- Request Nepal government to stop visa penalty against urban refugees, and legal recognition as refugees.
- Offer 100% support towards medical needs.
- If you cannot ensure our demands, please refer our cases to the UNHCR Headquarters for resettlement like the 113,500 Bhutanese refugees who were settled other third countries.
- Allow those willing to return home to do so at the earliest.
- Send those who are awaiting Canadian resettlement process at the earliest.
- Quick action against the security guards who hit one of our protesters during our peaceful protests.
