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Bangladesh and Malaysia have recently signed an MoU paving the way for Bangladeshi migrant workers to reap the benefits of employment opportunities in Malaysia. The MoU, which will be in effect till December 2026, ends a freeze of more than three years of manpower export to Malaysia, after allegations surfaced in 2018 of the exploitation […]
Do more to resolve Rohingya crisis: UN envoy in Bangladesh
A special rapporteur of the United Nations says the international community should build a better partnership with Bangladesh and cut off the Myanmar military leadership in dealing with the Rohingya refugee crisis. “Bangladesh cannot and should not bear this responsibility alone,” Tom Andrews, the UN’s Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Myanmar, told a news […]
UN Rapporteur: Rohingya Militants Kill, Abuse Refugees in Bangladesh Camps
A United Nations envoy says he has “credible” information about Rohingya militants being involved in kidnapping, abusing and even killing fellow Rohingya at refugee camps in southeastern Bangladesh. Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) militants gunned down Md. Muhib Ullah, a prominent Rohingya activist, at a refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar district in late September, Tom […]
Bangladesh: Rohingya Refugee Schools Face Closure
The Bangladesh government should urgently reverse a decision to close thousands of home-based and community-led schools for Rohingya refugee students, Human Rights Watch said today. Unless the foreign minister or the disaster management minister overturns the action, approximately 30,000 children will lose their access to education. The decision was issued on December 13, 2021 by the Refugee […]
UN expert underscores importance of human rights for Rohingya
“Bangladesh saved untold numbers of lives when it opened its arms and hearts to Rohingya people who survived these most unspeakable of horrors inflicted on them by the Myanmar military”, said Tom Andrews, Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Myanmar at the end of his first official visit to the Bangladesh. “All who value human rights owe […]
‘Telling our own stories’: Rohingya lives, through a camera lens
Rohingya in Bangladesh’s vast refugee camps are documenting their lives through a camera lens – capturing snapshots of daily joys or growing hardships in a prolonged crisis. Generations of Rohingya have fled persecution in their homeland of Myanmar’s Rakhine State, including the 2017 military crackdowns that pushed 700,000 people into the crowded camps in southern Bangladesh, and […]
Bangladesh authorities demolish scores of Rohingya shops
Bangladesh authorities have demolished about 1,000 shops belonging to Rohingya in camps with a rights worker saying the move would have a “huge impact” on refugees’ livelihoods. Bangladeshi camp officials armed with excavators, hammers and shovels bulldozed the shops in several camps in the Cox’s Bazar area on Thursday and Friday, leaving shell-shocked Rohingya shop-owners […]
Rising Violence in Rohingya Camps: May soon spread beyond borders
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged the international community to give proper attention to the Rohingya issue as growing violence and crimes in the Rohingya camps can soon spread beyond borders. “The security situation in the Cox’s Bazar camps is getting complicated. The growing violence and crimes can soon spread beyond our borders,” she said. […]
Rohingya sue Facebook for $150bn over Myanmar hate speech
Dozens of Rohingya refugees in the UK and US have sued Facebook, accusing the social media giant of allowing hate speech against them to spread. They are demanding more than $150bn (£113bn) in compensation, claiming Facebook’s platforms promoted violence against the persecuted minority. An estimated 10,000 Rohingya Muslims were killed during a military crackdown in […]
Man dies in clash at wedding party in Ukhiya Rohingya camp
The incident took place in Block C of Balukhali Camp No. 9 on Saturday, said Md Shihab Kaiser Khan, chief of Armed Police Battalion-8. Eight others were injured in the incident. The dead man was identified as Mohammad Belal, 40, a resident at the camp. His body has been sent to the morgue in Cox’s […]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 […]
