As students across Ireland mark the end of their secondary school years, four Rohingya students celebrate their remarkable journey from being born in refugee camps to completing their secondary schools in excellent forms. The students were between the ages of four and six when they were resettled in Carlow and Dublin in 2009. All of them were born in Kutupalong…
Rohingya Action Ireland is extremely saddened to hear the news of Gary Kilgallen’s passing on April 9. Gary was a life-long campaigner of human rights, peace, justice and accountability. His decades of activism had brought human rights abuses across the world into the spotlight. Through Burma Action Ireland, Gary had spent over twenty years lobbying and campaigning for democracy and…
Rohingya girls and women from Rohingya Action Ireland opened a henna tattooing parlour to raise fund for the education of Rohingya children in refugee camps in Bangladesh. The parlour session which lasted for six hours at Fairgreen Shopping Centre on March 26, has brought many people of diverse backgrounds from Carlow, aided with the wonderful warm weather. Rohingya girls and…
Rohingya Community Marks 10th Eid – ‘Festival of Breaking Fast’ in Carlow As over 1.6 billion Muslims around the world celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr – “Festival of Breaking the Fast” after a month-long of fasting from dust to dawn, a small Rohingya community marks the festival on its 10th year of resettlement in Carlow. Although the 19-hour-fasting a day for 29 days…
On November 25, VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art & George Bernard Shaw Theatre concluded “The Stateless” – the archival exhibition documenting the journey of the Rohingya community in Ireland, the ongoing persecutions of Rohingya in Myanmar and the plight of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. The exhibition launched on September 21 as a part of the winter project, was not the…
A ‘Treasured Solidarity’: Teachers’ Union of Ireland flies Rohingya Flag In an act of bravery and solidarity the Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) took a decision to fly the Rohingya at its head office in Dublin on Wednesday, September 5, 2018. It is a substantial stand of unity with Rohingya and an acknowledgement of a persecuted minority group who are…
VISUAL Carlow, a centre for visualisation of Rohingya Plight On November 25, VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art & George Bernard Shaw Theatre concluded “The Stateless” – the archival exhibition documenting the journey of the Rohingya community in Ireland, the ongoing persecutions of Rohingya in Myanmar and the plight of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. The exhibition launched on September 21 as…
IRELAND REMEMBERS ROHINGYA VICTIMS OF GENOCIDE August 25, 2018 As Rohingya across the globe marked one of the greatest tragedies of the modern time, Rohingya Action Ireland hold Rohingya Genocide Remembrance Day on Saturday, August 25. The remembrance day was jointly organised by academics, students, local Irish organisations, volunteers and people from the diverse walks of life in Carlow –…
Rohingya: Impact of the World Community Development Conference 2018 The World Community Development Conference 2018 at Maynooth University provided renewed motivation for a community development approach for the work of Rohingya Action Ireland and the resettled Rohingya community living in Carlow. The community, a total of 78 Rohingya refugees have resettled in Carlow town. They arrived in April 2009 from…