GENEVA: The UN improperly collected and shared data from more than 800,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, passing it on to Myanmar, the country they fled, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday , urging an investigation.
HRW however said the refugees often likely did not understand that the data being collected, including photographs, fingerprints and biographic data, could be shared with Myanmar.This, the report said, was particularly concerning in the case of the approximately 880,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, many of whom fled a 2017 crackdown in Myanmar that UN investigators say amounted to genocide.
But all but one of the 24 refugees told HRW they were never informed the data would be used for anything beyond establishing aid access. She urged the UNHCR to conduct"an investigation to look carefully at why the decisions at the time were made the way they were".Wille acknowledged it was"hard to generalise based on the small sample size" of refugees HRW had spoken with.
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