In Search of a New Life

INDONESIA Rohingya migrant women collect used clothes inside a shelter on May 12 in Lhoksukon, Indonesia. More than 1,500 refugees, including Bangladeshis seeking jobs and ethnic Rohingya Muslims fleeing persecution in Burma, came ashore in Indonesia and Malaysia over the course of two days in May. The U.N. said the number of migrants leaving Bangladesh and Burma by sea surged in the first three months of the year.

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Dangerous Passage

MALTA Migrants on a packed wooden boat off the Maltese coast wait to be rescued on May 3. Roughly 60,000 migrants have attempted the perilous journey across the Mediterranean to Europe this year, but many others have died in the attempt, prompting European Union nations to boost funding for rescue efforts in April. Over 1,800 fatalities had been reported by early May.

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