Joel Charny
Joel R. Charny is vice president for policy with Refugees International, a Washington-based humanitarian advocacy organisation. He has extensive experience in Asia for RI, Oxfam America and the U.N. Development Programme. He has managed and assessed emergency response and post-conflict recovery programmes in Cambodia, Sri Lanka and Indonesia.
Burma: Humanitarianism on the rocks?
Author: Joel Charny
Burma is a place of widespread misery. The indicators are alarming: one in 10 children don't see their fifth birthday, the highest rate outside Africa except for Afghanistan; malaria, a preventable disease, is the country's biggest killer; HIV rates are the highest in Southeast Asia.
Poverty, political persecution and human rights abuses have forced hundreds of thousands to flee their homes. There are an estimated 2 million Burmese in Thailand alone. Thousands of others cross the western border into Bangladesh and India. Although some find their way into refugee camps, the majority live an underground existence due to policies in all these countries aimed at discouraging asylum seekers.
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Author: Joel Charny
Burma is a place of widespread misery. The indicators are alarming: one in 10 children don't see their fifth birthday, the highest rate outside Africa except for Afghanistan; malaria, a preventable disease, is the country's biggest killer; HIV rates are the highest in Southeast Asia.
Poverty, political persecution and human rights abuses have forced hundreds of thousands to flee their homes. There are an estimated 2 million Burmese in Thailand alone. Thousands of others cross the western border into Bangladesh and India. Although some find their way into refugee camps, the majority live an underground existence due to policies in all these countries aimed at discouraging asylum seekers.
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