Tuesday, 31 August 2021, 7:30PM US ET
Co-sponsored by the The Clear View Project
Via Zoom. Free. Registration required.
Yasmin Ullah will provide a quick history of the Rohingya people and the genocide against them in Myanmar. She will discuss the current situation in Myanmar and Bangladesh and explain how the recent coup in Myanmar has affected the Rohingya. Finally she will question the framing of the conflict as a religious one, arguing that it is better understood as motivated by economic factors.
Who are the Rohingya?
What happened to them?
How are Rohingya communities today?
What caused the violence against them?
Is it fundamentally a religious conflict?
ABOUT YASMIN ULLAH
Yasmin Ullah is a Rohingya social justice activist who works on advocacy, media and building alliances with young people from Myanmar. She was born in the Northern Rakhine state of Myanmar. Her family fled to Thailand in 1995 when she was a child and she remained a stateless refugee until moving to Canada in 2011.
Yasmin served as the President of the Rohingya Human Rights Network, a non-profit group led by activists across Canada advocating and raising public awareness of the Rohingya genocide.
She has worked on various projects such as the Time to Act: Rohingya Voices exhibition with the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, the Genocide Learning Tool with the Montréal Holocaust Museum and the Anthology: I Am A Rohingya where she published her poetry. She’s currently completing her undergraduate degree in political science.
In 2021 she was named on the FemiList100, the Gender Security Project list of 100 women from the Global South, working in foreign policy, peacebuilding, law, activism, development.
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