Bangladesh has stressed that it will not repatriate anyone against their will. The plan sparked protests among some refugees, while others reportedly hid within refugee camps.
Hassan Abedin is on the go at the U.N. General Assembly trying to get diplomats to focus on the plight of the Rohingya refugees from Myanmar. "My Fitbit is just screaming," he says.
Photojournalist and activist Shahidul Alam has helped nurture a generation of South Asian photographers. He was jailed last month on charges of "spreading propaganda and false information."
Hundreds of thousands of refugees languish in the camps. UNICEF estimates that more than half the refugees are children. Some aid groups have warned that these children could become a lost generation.
This week marks a year since hundreds of thousands of Rohingya fled attacks in Myanmar. As refugees, they now live in huge camps in Bangladesh, with difficult conditions made worse by monsoon rains.
A year ago, Myanmar soldiers launched what the U.S. and the U.N. say was a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Rohingya Muslims. "I would rather drink poison than go back to Myanmar," says a refugee.
It started when a bus killed two students in the capital city of Dhaka. Thousands of student prs literally changed the flow of traffic — to the dismay of the government.