Rohingya refugee

Rohingya repatriation: Can we ever find a viable scheme?

International support for the Rohingya people is diminishing by the day.

For sustainable Rohingya repatriation, citizenship and security are must

A 30-member Myanmar delegation—during their recent visit to Cox’s Bazar—failed to make any commitment to the refugees regarding their request for repatriation to their original homes

UK announces £3 million in humanitarian support for Rohingyas

UK's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) Permanent Under-Secretary Sir Philip Barton has announced that UK will provide £3,000,000 (around Tk 42 crore) of new funding to support Rohingyas in Cox's Bazar and Bhasan Char

Between ifs and buts dwindles the future of the Rohingya

Is it a battle of numbers that give political actors the right to dehumanise them? We wish to believe that crises create the push for alternatives and that, in this case, collective actions will be towards this direction.

Rohingya repatriation: Easier said than done

Even if they go back to their homeland, what exactly is awaiting them there?

News Analysis / Rohingya Repatriation: China now active but uncertainties yet to clear up

China now appears to be quite active in trying to make the Rohingya repatriation a reality.

Combatting the Rohingya refugee crisis with nature-based solutions

Environment and ecosystem rehabilitation has always been a cross-cutting issue in the JRPs. It is indeed exciting for environmentalists to see NbS finding its place in the world's largest refugee camp sheltering about a million of Myanmar’s Muslim minority.

Rohingya, Geopolitics and Myanmar: An Uncertain Future

Myanmar's geopolitical value is putting Bangladesh in a tight spot

Rohingya man narrates 16 days’ ordeal on route of trafficking

A transnational syndicate is using a new land route through Myanmar to traffic people, mostly Rohingyas from refugee camps in Bangladesh, to Thailand and Malaysia.

April 23, 2019
April 23, 2019

Three top UN officials due tomorrow

Three top UN officials will jointly visit Bangladesh from April 24 to 26 to highlight the ongoing need for support for the humanitarian needs of almost a million Rohingya refugees, said the UN office in Dhaka yesterday.

March 1, 2019
March 1, 2019

Localising the Rohingya refugee response

For decades now, Rohingya refugees have been crossing the border into Bangladesh as unrest worsened in their native Rakhine, Myanmar.

February 8, 2019
February 8, 2019

Elephants face 'time bomb' in Bangladesh

Standing atop an elephant watch-tower on the outskirts of the sprawling Rohingya refugee settlement in Cox's Bazar, Nur Islam takes great pride in keeping his people safe.

September 1, 2018
September 1, 2018

Rohingya man shot dead by criminals

Criminals shot a Rohingya man dead inside a camp at Leda in Teknaf upazila yesterday afternoon.

August 23, 2018
August 23, 2018

'Lost generation' looms for Rohingya refugee children without education

Rohingya refugee children who lack proper education in camps in Bangladesh could become a "lost generation", the United Nations says, a year after Myanmar's army began a crackdown that has forced more than 700,000 people to flee the country.

June 29, 2018
June 29, 2018

China assures help in Rohingya repatriation

China will assist in the repatriation of Rohingya mass who have been living as refugees in Bangladesh, fleeing from persecution in Myanmar.

April 30, 2018
April 30, 2018

UNSC team reaches Myanmar for Rohingya probe

Members of a UN Security Council team probing Myanmar’s crisis over its ethnic Rohingya Muslim minority arrive in the country’s capital after a visit to Bangladesh, where about 700,000 Rohingya who have fled military-led violence live in refugee camps.

April 29, 2018
April 29, 2018

There’s no magic solution, UNSC says after visiting Rohingya camps

UN Security Council delegates complete visit at the Rohingya camps in Ukhia and assess first-hand the plight of the refugees sheltered there and Bangladesh's role in handling the responsibility of 700,000.

March 22, 2018
March 22, 2018

Rohingya refugee crisis, UN General Assembly and Bangladesh diplomacy

The latest incident of the Rohingya refugee influx into Bangladesh has produced a scenario which is different from earlier influxes in two aspects: one is humanitarian, which can be legally interpreted in various ways, from forced displacement to genocide. Killings, torture, rape, forced expulsion and starvation has driven nearly one million Rohingyas to take refuge in Bangladesh since August 2017.

February 28, 2018
February 28, 2018

Hold Myanmar to account

The recent comments made by three Nobel laureates when they visited Rohingya refugee camps in Cox's Bazar, have brought to the fore the need for the international community to be unanimous in taking concerted action against the genocide that forced more than a million Rohingyas to flee their homeland, Myanmar.

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