Rohingya Camps Face the Monsoon The monsoon season in South and Southeast Asia has arrived. Al-Jazeera wrote on July 15: In the overcrowded refugee camps in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district – home to nearly one million Rohingya who have fled a military crackdown in Myanmar—nearly 5,000 tarpaulin and bamboo homes were Read more…
On July 3rd, the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA), Progressive Voice (PV) and Myanmar Alliance for Transparency and Accountability (MATA) issued a joint statement “call[ing] on the international community to expedite the full operationalisation of the independent investigative mechanism for Myanmar (IIM) established by the UN Human Read more…
As we gather this weekend in Boulder, Colorado for a weekend dedicated to facing extremism wherever it arises, a message from Hozan Alan Senauke in response to the Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka. Grieving for Sri Lanka Hatred never ceases through hatred It ceases only through love. This is Read more…
Buddhist Humanitarian Project 1933 Russell Street Berkeley CA 94703 www.buddhisthumanitarianproject.org Support the Rohingya and Senate Bill 2060 On Wednesday, November 14 at the Asia-Pacific Summit in Singapore, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence spoke with Myanmar’s de-facto leader Daw Aung San Suu about his deep concern for the plight of the Read more…
Hozan Alan Senauke on Thursday, November 16 speaking about Buddhism, Buddhist “nationalism,” and the Rohingya crisis on WBEZ-Chicago’s long-running “Worldview”—a radio show about how race, ethnicity, gender, identity, the environment, religion, politics, and economics drive and shape the news, hosted by Jerome McDonnell. https://www.wbez.org/shows/worldview/zen-priest-alan-senauke-protecting-rohingya-and-building-community-through-buddhism/4990b094-0254-4d88-bbe6-6e57360a2339