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- Rohingya Settle in for the Long Haul, Even as Bangladesh Wants Refugees to Go Home
- The Obstacle to Rohingya Return Is Clear: It’s Still Myanmar
- Human rights groups slam draft UN plans to send Rohingya to barren island
- Aid for Rohingya costing taxpayers millions, says foreign minister
- Emotional plea by Rohingyas to support refugee education
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Rohingya Settle in for the Long Haul, Even as Bangladesh Wants Refugees to Go Home
Along the edge of the largest camp sheltering Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, hundreds of men and women with shovels and wicker baskets are turning a barren hill into a parking lot-sized plateau. The newly leveled land will eventually hold new stronger shelters for refugees from overcrowded parts of the camps. Under the direction of engineers […]
The Obstacle to Rohingya Return Is Clear: It’s Still Myanmar
The main obstacle to allowing Rohingya refugees ethnically cleansed from Myanmar to return to their homes remains the government of Myanmar. International actions aimed at addressing the crisis should reflect that reality. The truth is clear when you speak to Rohingya refugees who continue to regularly arrive in Bangladesh, as we did last month as […]
Human rights groups slam draft UN plans to send Rohingya to barren island
Human rights groups have reacted with horror to reports of United Nations draft plans to help relocate thousands of Rohingya refugees from Bangladeshi camps to a barren, flood-prone island in the Bay of Bengal. A document drawn up this month by the World Food Programme (WFP), the UN’s food aid arm, and seen by Reuters, […]
Aid for Rohingya costing taxpayers millions, says foreign minister
GOMBAK: Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah says the government is committed to supporting displaced Rohingya refugees but warns that humanitarian aid is costing millions in taxpayers’ money. He said great effort had been made to send aid to Cox’s Bazaar in Bangladesh as well as here in the country, but that no solution is in sight. […]
Emotional plea by Rohingyas to support refugee education
DUBAI, 24th March, 2019 (WAM) — The seventh annual Global Education and Skills Forum, GESF 2019, a Varkey Foundation initiative, opened in Dubai on Saturday with an emotional plea by Rohingyas to support the education of refugee children, whose only hope for the future rests on it. Addressing the audience, Ahmed Ullah, organiser of peace […]
How the Global Refugee Crisis Has Transformed Europe
Find out how the aftermath of the refugee crisis is still upending politics across Europe—when you subscribe to World Politics Review (WPR). As the nationalist, anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats claimed their best result yet in Sweden’s parliamentary elections in September, the nation’s newspapers went bold with their headlines. “Chaos,” read the front pages, in all caps, […]
Rohingya Women Request ICC Probe Into Genocide
Female Rohingya refugees have created a support group called Shanti Mohila (peace women) in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district. None of these women knew each other before fleeing Myanmar more than a year ago but grief and trauma brought them together leading them to meet frequently in refugee camps. “Our fathers and brothers shot, our sisters […]
Rights Groups Warn of New Whitewash as Myanmar Military Vows to Investigate Rohingya Campaign
The Myanmar military has created a three-member investigative panel to probe the conduct of the armed forces during a 2017 crackdown on Rohingya Muslims in northern Rakhine state that left thousands dead and forced more than 740,000 to flee to Bangladesh, the country’s commander-in-chief’s office announced Monday. The campaign of violence by security forces included […]
Syrian Refugees Use Precedent Set in Rohingya Case to Try to Bring Government Officials before the International Criminal Court
SYRIAN ACTIVISTS AND lawyers are testing the bounds of international law, making two new attempts to bring the government of Bashar al-Assad before the International Criminal Court. Syrian refugees in Jordan, through London-based lawyers, sent communications to the office of the ICC prosecutor, asking her to exercise jurisdiction over Syria based on a precedent set last […]
Some Rohingya refugees prefer death in Bangladesh over repatriation to Myanmar
COX’S BAZAAR, Bangladesh (RNS) — When 60-year-old Dil Mohammad found out in November that he was on a list of some 2,000 Rohingya refugees to be sent back to Myanmar, he grabbed the bottle of rat poison and poured it down his throat. His wife forced him to vomit and rushed him to the nearby […]Recent Posts
Along the edge of the largest camp sheltering Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, hundreds of men and women with shovels and wicker baskets are turning a barren hill into a parking lot-sized plateau. The newly leveled land will eventually hold new stronger shelters for refugees from overcrowded parts of the camps. Under the direction of engineers […]
