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- Netherlands to provide $7.5m for Rohingyas, host community
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- Bangladesh should incorporate the Rohingya scenario within its forthcoming ICCPR report
- Rohingya rights groups form alliance for self-determination, dignified survival in Myanmar
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Allow Rohingya Refugees to Work So They Can Contribute to Malaysian Economy, Putrajaya Urged
The protests and breakout at the temporary immigration detention centre in Sungai Bakap, Penang, last week have renewed calls for a legal framework and policy to deal with refugees, especially Rohingyas. Six Rohingya asylum-seekers, including two children, were killed while trying to cross a highway after fleeing the detention centre on April 20. Police said they […]
58 People, Mostly Rohingya, Rescued from Sea While Being Trafficked to Malaysia
Members of Rapid Action Battalion rescued fifty-eight people off Teknaf coast in Cox’s Bazar while they were being trafficked to Malaysia by a trawler through the Bay of Bengal. Lt Col Khairul Islam Sarker, commander of RAB-15, confirmed the matter to our Cox’s Bazar staff correspondent. RAB also arrested two members of human trafficking gang […]
US declares Myanmar action against Rohingya as genocide
The Biden administration has formally determined that violence committed against the Rohingya minority by Myanmar’s military amounts to genocide and crimes against humanity, US officials told Reuters, a move that advocates say should bolster efforts to hold the junta that now runs Myanmar accountable. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will announce the decision on Monday […]
Over 100 Rohingya immigrants take shelter in Aceh emergency tents
Banda Aceh, Aceh (ANTARA) – More than a hundred Rohingya immigrants are staying in emergency tents in Bireuen district, Aceh province, after getting stranded on the district’s coast on March 6, 2022. “The Rohingya immigrants are being sheltered at emergency tents in Alue Buya Pase village, Jangka sub-district, Bireuen district,” assistant I to the secretary […]
What does the UN MoU with Bangladesh govt mean for Rohingya refugees?
The U.N. Refugee Agency signed a memorandum of understanding with the Bangladesh government last week to initiate its aid operations on Bhashan Char island, where tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees have been relocated recently. Both the United Nations and the Bangladesh government have kept the memorandum out of public view — which hinders refugees from making an informed […]
Rohingya Armed Groups Active Again in Western Myanmar
Long before the junta’s February 1 coup, the Rohingya crisis was making headlines in the international media. Today, the issue is still grabbing attention worldwide with hundreds of thousands of Rohingya, the stateless Muslim minority from Rakhine State in western Myanmar, in refugee camps in Bangladesh waiting to be repatriated to Myanmar. Myanmar is facing […]
Rohingya refugees fear ‘another disaster waiting to happen’ after 84 fires in just four months – more than 2020 total
15 April 2021 – Rohingya refugees living in in the Cox’s Bazar camps in Bangladesh are fearing for their lives after seven more fires broke out since Sunday, taking the total number of fires to 84 in just four months, according to data from the Inter Sector Coordination Group (ISCG). There have now been more […]
Rohingya want to dethrone junta, return to Myanmar
Seventy-year-old Aysar Rahman is one of the more than 750,000 Rohingya who fled Myanmar in August 2017 when its military launched a crackdown that saw villages being burned down, extrajudicial killings, and rape. Leaving behind a big house, a cattle farm and other property, his 8-member family has been living in poor conditions in Cox’s […]
Mental health support centre for Rohingyas opens in Ukhiya
About 225,863 people have already received mental health services through nine other centres in Cox’s Bazar. A Mental Health and Psycho-social Support (MHPSS) centre for Rohingya refugees was launched at Kutupalong in Ukhiya upazila of Cox’s Bazar on Tuesday. Syed Mahbubul Haque, assistant secretary of Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief and in-charge of camp […]
‘Pray floods don’t kill us’: The Rohingya’s remote Bangladesh island
BHASAN CHAR, BANGLADESH – As a Bangladeshi naval ship anchored off a remote Bay of Bengal island, some of the Rohingya Muslim refugees aboard clapped in anticipation of starting a new life on a piece of land that did not even exist two decades ago. Carrying poultry and sacks of belongings, they are part of a […]Donate Now
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The Netherlands has decided to provide $7.5 million dollars through the International Organization for Migration (IOM) for the welfare of forcibly displaced Rohingyas and their host community in Cox’s Bazar district. An agreement between the Netherlands embassy in Dhaka and IOM was signed in this regard to implement a project styled ‘Restoring the Environment and […]
