Professor Milena Sterio traveled to Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, to collaborate with a group of Rohingya refugees in documenting human rights violations against the Rohingya community in Myanmar during 2016-17. These refugees reside in large camps in Bangladesh, enduring extremely challenging conditions. This was Professor Sterio’s third field mission to Bangladesh and the Rohingya refugee camps.

As part of the same trip, Professor Sterio also attended a transitional justice summit held in Bangkok, Thailand, where she discussed some of her findings from the Rohingya documentation project. The event, organized by the U.S. State Department, assembled several prominent NGOs and experts focused on similar transitional justice issues in Southeast Asia.