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Rohingya Children Learn To Fight Back Against COVID-19, One Pair of Hands at a time.
Around the world, communities have been taking precautions to help slow the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and keep their families safe, including by practicing physical distancing. But for the more than 850,000 Rohingya refugees from Myanmar living in cramped conditions in what is effectively the world’s largest refugee camp, keeping some distance from other […]
Rohingya Refugees Brace for a New Deadly Threat—Coronavirus
In the largest refugee settlement on earth, we are holding our breath On March 24, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh confirmed a COVID-19 case. It’s now just a matter of time before the outbreak reaches the nearby camps, where hundreds of thousands of Rohinyga refugees like myself are living. Having already endured a brutal military crackdown and displacement from our homes in Myanmar, we now face […]
Bangladesh: ‘Restrictions on Rohingya raise virus risk’
Dozens of international rights groups have called on Bangladesh to lift restrictions imposed on the persecuted Rohingya community living in the Cox’s Bazar refugee settlement. In a letter to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, 50 rights organizations said the limitations on movement and internet and mobile coverage could have grave consequences. “We write to urge you […]
War crimes, not genocide committed against Rohingya: Myanmar probe
A Myanmar-appointed panel concluded on Monday (Jan 20) that some soldiers likely committed war crimes against its Rohingya Muslim community but the military was not guilty of genocide, findings swiftly condemned by rights groups. The “Independent Commission Of Enquiry (ICOE)” released the results of its probe just ahead of a ruling on Thursday by the […]
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 […]
Desperate plight of Rohingya refugees hits home in Bradford
It took the best part of 36 hours to travel from his Victorian terrace home in Bradford to the ever-growing refugee camp in southern Bangladesh. But of the 5,000-mile trip, it was the final few hundred meters that were the hardest. “When I was 500 meters from my parents home I was crying loudly,” said Deen Mohammed […]
A CALIFORNIA BASED FOUNDATION AIDS ROHINGYA REFUGEES – GV WIRE
This week, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson described the ongoing crisis in Myanmar as “ethnic cleansing” against the country’s Rohingya population. Tillerson recently made a fact-finding visit to the Buddhist-majority country, formerly known as Burma. “After a careful and thorough analysis of available facts, it is clear that the situation in northern Rakhine state constitutes ethnic cleansing […]
Karen Refugees Wary of Return to Myanmar as Despair Rises in Camps
On the Thai-Myanmar border, refugees who fled one of the world’s longest civil wars live in limbo, with alarmingly high suicide rates. As their options for resettlement narrow, some are beginning to return to Myanmar and the challenges of reintegration. For an hour every night, a generator provides electricity to the refugee camp of Mae La […]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 […]
