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31 percent Rohingya don’t Have any Idea Regarding Coronavirus
Most of the Rohingya Refugees including women and children don’t have any information about Coronavirus. Meet The Press Coordinator and Media Wings confirm the news after having conversation with the Press. There was data collection program on May 2020 where it was discovered that many women and children don’t have any idea about Coronavirus. Many […]
Nearly 100 Rohingya rescued off Indonesia
Amnesty International Indonesia’s executive director Usman Hamid urged authorities to treat the latest arrivals humanely Nearly 100 Rohingya from Myanmar, including 30 children, have been rescued from a rickety wooden boat off the coast of Indonesia’s Sumatra island, a maritime official said Wednesday. Images shot from Indonesian rescue boats showed dozens of children and adults, […]
Rolling out IVR to expand coverage of messaging in camps
The Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner (RRRC) approved UNHCR to use an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system for engaging and communicating with refugees. This technology is best known from customer service hotlines where callers are asked to press different numbers for different options. UNHCR’s protection team is also coordinating with IOM which is also testing […]
Lawyers seek Facebook posts of Myanmar leaders in Rohingya case
Lawyers bringing a case before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) accusing Myanmar of genocide against its Rohingya Muslim minority have asked a United States district court to order Facebook to release posts and communications from the country’s military and police. The ICJ, based in the Hague, has agreed to hear a case accusing Myanmar […]
Malaysia/Thailand: Allow Rohingya Refugees Ashore
Malaysia and Thailand should urgently rescue Rohingya refugees stranded at sea and provide them with assistance and access to asylum, Human Rights Watch said today. On June 8, 2020, Malaysian authorities detained 269 Rohingya refugees who arrived on a damaged boat off Malaysia’s coast at Langkawi. A second boat with an estimated 300 Rohingya remains at sea near […]
ECONOMYRohingya Influx and its Economic Significance for Bangladesh
It is generally perceived that refugees are curse for host countries though the former often play positive roles for the latter. The context of Bangladesh over hosting Rohingya refugees is portrayed in such a way that demonstrates they are solely an obvious danger for the country in the areas of its economy, politics, environment, health, […]
COVID-19: 15,000 Rohingya refugees under quarantine as cases hit 29
Some 15,000 Rohingya refugees are now under coronavirus quarantine in Bangladesh’s vast camps, officials said on Monday (May 25), as the number of confirmed infections rose to 29. Health experts have long warned that the virus could race through the cramped settlements, housing almost a million Muslims who fled violence in Myanmar, and officials had […]
Bangladesh: Fire damages 673 shanties in Rohingya cam
More than 670 makeshift dwellings for Rohingya refugees in a camp across Bangladesh’s southern district of Cox’s Bazar were damaged in a fire on Tuesday morning, according to officials. “We’ve been confirmed about the fire incident and are now assessing the extent of damages officially,” Bangladesh’s Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner (RRRC) Mahbub Alam Talukder […]
Rohingya survivors tell of misery and death at sea; hundreds still adrift
Rohingya refugee Shahab Uddin thought the wooden trawler he boarded in February would be his ticket out of a camp in Bangladesh to a better life in Malaysia. Instead, the voyage nearly killed him. The 20-year-old was among almost 400 survivors pulled from the water, starving, emaciated and traumatized after the boat failed to reach […]
Bangladesh: Rohingya Refugees Stranded at Sea
(Bangkok) – The Bangladesh government should immediately allow hundreds of Rohingya refugees stranded in two trawlers in the Bay of Bengal to come ashore and receive necessary food, water, and health care, Human Rights Watch said today. The United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, warned that the Rohingya may have been at sea for weeks without adequate food and water. On April […]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 […]
