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IOM, Amazon Step Up COVID-19 Rohingya Refugee Response in Cox’s Bazar
Cox’s Bazar – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is teaming with global technology leader Amazon to strengthen health response efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Rohingya refugee settlements of Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. By supporting frontline health workers in the district through the provision of adequate Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), the nearly quarter-million-dollar donation […]
WORLD MENTAL HEALTH DAY – ADDRESSING MENTAL HEALTH IN EMERGENCIES
The onset of meaningful community self-help and social support for the Rohingya people. In spite of their tragic nature and adverse effects on mental health, emergencies are also an opportunity to build better mental health systems as they are instrumental to the overall well-being, functioning and resilience of individuals and their communities, to help them […]
Public health response in Rohingya refugee settlements on alert as first coronavirus case confirmed
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and partner organizations have further intensified their COVID-19 response in the Rohingya refugee camps in the Cox’s Bazar area of Bangladesh, following the first confirmed case of coronavirus among the refugee population yesterday. Since March, UNHCR and partners have been supporting the Government of Bangladesh primarily in COVID-19 preparation and […]
Reports Chronicle Continuing Violence and Discrimination Against Rohingya Community
On October 12, Monday, international human rights groups, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, claimed to have gained conclusive evidence about indiscriminate attacks against civilians inside Myanmar’s Rakhine State. The groups have collected testimonies, visual evidence, and analysis of satellite imagery to prove that violence against the persecuted Rohingya community has continued. In the last […]
Rohingya refugee children learn to support one another
Rohingya refugee Myshara is leading a discussion group that is part of a peer-to-peer mental health programme for young refugees run with the help of UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, in Kutupalong camp – the largest of 34 camps in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district. The area is home to more than 860,000 Rohingya refugees, almost […]
Covid-19: Addendum to JRP to provide health services to more Bangladeshis
953,000 people of Cox’s Bazar are now eligible to receive coronavirus-related services from UN-led international community The 2020 joint response plan (JRP) has been updated with an addendum to provide Covid-19 related services to more Bangladeshis in Cox’s Bazar, multiple sources have told Dhaka Tribune. On March 3, United Nations agencies and NGO partners launched […]
People Both in the Refugees Camps & in Coxbazar Dont Follow Health Issues Against CoronaVirus.
People Dont Follow Any Social Distancing Rather They Stay Close Without Using Masks. Staff Reporter Corona Virus hasn’t disappeared so far the Govt Report States. Many people are getting careless about the health issues like washing hands again and again, using hand sanitizer, using masks and maintaining social distance etc. Earlier government had separated Three […]
New Rohingya population figure in Bangladesh is accurate: official
The latest estimate of roughly 850,000 Rohingya refugees living currently in Bangladesh is ‘accurate’, not the initial calculation released two years ago that put the figure at nearly 950,000, says Mohammad Shamsu Douza, the government’s additional commissioner of refugee, relief and repatriation. The official spoke about the problems currently facing the refugees sheltered in Bangladesh […]
Hundreds injured in Rohingya camp internal clashes
Eight people including one Bangladeshi have died so far. Clashes over dominance between two groups at the Kutupalong Rohingya camp in Ukhiya, Cox’s Bazar, have been continuing for the past week. There were intermittent shootings and clashes throughout the day on Wednesday as well. At least 50 people were injured in the clashes. Law enforcers […]
Rohingya accuse Bangladesh officers of abuse over hunger strike
Rohingya refugees banished to Bhashan Char island off Bangladesh’s southwestern coast have alleged they were beaten by the country’s officials for holding a hunger strike to demand better living conditions and to be reunited with their families in camps on the mainland. Several Rohingya, who did not want to be named, told Al Jazeera that […]Donate Now
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It has been close to six years since hundreds of thousands of Rohingya faced a deadly genocide by Myanmar’s military and fled the country in search of protection and refuge in neighbouring Bangladesh. The Rohingya population has been undergoing persecution, discrimination, arbitrary arrests, and atrocities in Myanmar for over seven decades. Their condition is alarmingly […]
