Fiza Lee-Winter

Dr. Fiza Lee Winter studied Criminology, Philosophy and Media Studies at the University of Northern Colorado, USA and Human Rights & Democratisation at Ruhr-University Bochum (Global Campus Human Rights, Venice), where she also obtained her PhD in International Development Studies. She is a Research Associate at Ruhr-University Bochum’s Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict (IFHV), Programme Coordinator & Study Advisor for the NOHA MA Programme, and the managing editor for the Genocide Studies & Prevention Journal.

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Who Is Responsible for Our Human Rights?

Fiza Lee-Winter

A major earthquake (7.7 magnitude) which hit Mandalay, Myanmar on Friday, March 28, 2025, has caused a death toll of more than 3,700 and has led to chaos with many...

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Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric and Detaining the “Other”

Fiza Lee-Winter Selin Altay

Not a day goes by without increasing discrimination against refugees around the world. Sometimes, this takes the form of a U.S. president making baseless claims about refugees eating other people’s...

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The Right to Live under Threat

Fiza Lee-Winter Tonny Kirabira Laura Collins

Just hours before Myanmar’s newly elected government sat in for their first parliamentary session on 1st February, 2021, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and other National League for Democracy (NLD)...

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Return of the Rohingyas

Fiza Lee-Winter

The rape and murder of 27-year-old Arakan Buddhist woman Thida Htwe in late May 2012, allegedly by three Muslim men, triggered multiple rounds of sectarian violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state....

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Between policy and reality

Fiza Lee-Winter

Since the violent events of August 2017, which triggered one of the most recent mass exoduses of Rohingyas from Rakhine state in Myanmar, the Rohingya diaspora continues to rise. Many...