Universal Declaration of Human Rights

This series includes 30 photos taken in the past few decades showing different human rights stories around the world will be displayed: issues such as comfort women to the abuse of detainees in Guantanamo Bay to anti-racial discrimination legislation in Hong Kong.

Exiled to Nowhere: Burma's Rohingya

The Rhoingya are a Muslim ethnic minority from Myanmar. They have been stateless since 1982 when discriminatory citizenship laws effectively stripped them of their nationality, which resulted in systematic persecution that continues today. They experience forced labor and their land and belongings are arbitrarily seized by the Myanmar authorities. Even marriage requires permission from the government. Hence, a majority of Rohingyas have fled to neighboring Bangladesh to become refugees. Their plight has been documented by renowned photo-journalist Greg Constantine.

Mr. Constantine began photographing the Rohingya in Bangladesh in early 2006 as part of a greater project called Nowhere People, which documents stateless minority groups in the world.  Work from this project has received a number of awards, including an Award of Merit in the 2008 Human Right Press Awards in Hong Kong (co-sponsored by Amnesty International Hong Kong) and the 2008 SOPA Award for Feature Photography.

Leaflets on refugees in Hong Kong are available upon request. For enquiries, please email hre@amnesty.org.hk.