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Social Protection: Achieving social justice through blockchain technology

Born out of a desire to help the stateless Rohingya people, a Muslim minority who for decades have been illegally denied citizenship in Myanmar, the Rohingya Project is pioneering the use of digital identity cards (Rohingya Project, 2019). It is hoped that these will eventually allow the over 700,000 Rohingya refugees fleeing to Bangladesh to […]

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The Guardian: Rohingya turn to blockchain to solve identity crisis

Rohingya refugees are turning to blockchain-type technology to help address one of their most existential threats: lack of officially-recognised identity. Denied citizenship in their home country of Myanmar for decades, the Muslim minority was the target of a brutal campaign of violence by the military which culminated a year ago this week. A “clearance operation” led by

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One World Identity: Stateless Rohingya Muslims who fled Myanmar will get blockchain-based digital IDs

Rohingya Muslims, the world’s largest stateless minority, will have better access to services like hospitals, education and banking, thanks to a new blockchain-based digital identity initiative. The Rohingya Project plans to issue its first 1,000 digital IDs to Rohingya in Malaysia, Bangladesh and Saudi Arabia beginning in 2018, according to Reuters. There are more than 4 million

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TechWire: Humanitarian group uses blockchain tech to give Rohingya digital ID cards

A NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATION is using blockchain technology to provide stateless Rohingya refugees who fled Burma (Myanmar) with digital identity cards in a pilot project aimed at giving access to services like banking and education. The first 1,000 people to benefit from the project in 2018 will be members of the diaspora in Malaysia, Bangladesh and

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Blocktribune: Blockchain Tech Employed to Give Stateless Rohingya People Digital IDs

The Rohingya, whom experts say are one of the most persecuted minorities in the world, are a stateless Indo-Aryan people from Rakhine State, Myanmar. They have been subjected to abuse for a number of years, particularly after the enactment of the Burma Citizenship Law in 1982, which officially left the Rohingya stateless. There were an

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