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An open secret: Refugee pushbacks across the Turkey-Greece border
Linda, a 19-year-old Syrian and registered refugee, had just crossed from Turkey into Greece at the Evros River when men carrying guns appeared, seemingly out of nowhere. She wasn’t sure if they were police officers or soldiers, but they emerged from behind trees and wore dark uniforms that helped them blend into the night. […]
Rohingya teen dreams of higher ed from squalid refugee camp
At an age when many young Rohingya women have children, Rahima Akter has other plans. From the refugee camp in southern Bangladesh where she was born, Akter, a 19-year-old with a confident smile who goes by the name Khushi, says she aspires to become the most educated Rohingya woman in the world. Akter was […]
UN says Rohingya children in need of basic education
Rohingya children and youths in Bangladesh refugee camps are in need of education, a spokesperson for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) said Friday. “We are concerned about losing a generation. Young people especially have limited opportunities to get an education here,” Alastair Lawson Tancred told journalists in Cox’s Bazar, a […]
Deported Rohingyas ‘will be killed in Myanmar soon’, fear refugees
The Rohingya Muslims living at the Kalindi Kunj camps are feared that the seven refugees deported to Myanmar will soon be killed. The Rohingyas India said, “We just request Indian govt to let us stay here until there is peace in our country. Seven Rohingyas who were deported will be killed very soon.” To donate […]
Trump lifts refugee ban, but admissions still plummet, data shows
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In late October, President Donald Trump lifted a temporary ban on most refugee admissions, a move that should have cleared the way for more people fleeing persecution and violence to come to the United States. Instead, the number of refugees admitted to the country has plummeted. In the five weeks after the […]
Theresa May condemns ‘what looks like ethnic cleansing’ of Muslim refugees in Myanmar
Theresa May has strongly condemned the crisis in Myanmar which ‘looks like ethnic cleansing’ of Muslims. Hundreds of thousands of refugees have poured over the border into Bangladesh, with harrowing stories of starvation, rape, and loss of their homes. The Rohingya people who live in western Rakhine state are a minority in the mainly Buddhist […]
Four Rohingya refugees die as boat capsizes off Bangladesh
GENEVA – At least four Rohingya refugees from Myanmar were killed when their boat capsized in rough seas early on Tuesday (Oct 31) in the Bay of Bengal near the coast of Bangladesh, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency said. Injured survivors were taken to local hospitals for treatment, UNHCR spokesperson Babar Baloch told a press briefing in […]
340,000 Rohingya children are starving in refugee camps; does anyone care?
More than 340,000 Rohingya children fleeing violence in Myanmar are seeing “hell on Earth” in overcrowded, muddy and disease-infested refugee camps in neighbouring Bangladesh, according to UNICEF. Many of the children are alone, starving, in need of medical attention and at risk of being captured and thrown into human trafficking, the aid organization said. READ MORE: Striking drone footage shows thousands […]
Trump compares refugees to snakes
The U.S. will take a decision on its continuation in the Paris climate treaty within the next two weeks, President Donald Trump said on Saturday, naming China, Russia, and India for allegedly contributing nothing under the treaty. During the campaign, Mr. Trump had promised to withdraw from the treaty, but senior officials of his administration […]
Should Lebanon get more funds for hosting refugees?
The Lebanese government intends to request $10-12bn from donors at the "Supporting the Future of Syria and the Region" conference hosted this week by the European Union in Brussels. These sums, requested over 5-7 years, represent double the amount currently received by Lebanon. While the government is invoking the risks of civil unrest and economic collapse, and threatening to […]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 […]
