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Healing Power of Playtime for Refugee Camp Moms and Kids
In a Rohingya refugee camp in the south-eastern district of Cox-Bazar in Bangladesh, children play happily with toys and brightly coloured learning tools, helped by their mothers. For a brief time, these children – and their mothers – can forget their surroundings and find respite from the pain of being persecuted and forced from their […]
Cold Winter is Bringing Even Colder Atmosphere Soon and Families Suffer More beside Elders Along with Babies: Our Staff Reporter Says.
Staff Reporter Cox bazaar Correspondence This is a rare picture captured in the late afternoon when the sun finally shone. Low Temperature, fog, dews, hazy weather are adding sufferings for the people around. The low middle class people are unable to work and they even suffer to get jobs since they live from hand to […]
Living Tents are very Small for Many Families Since Over population in the Rohingya Camps Require More Spaces: IOM Reports
Population and Spaces are Contradictory for Huge Number of People in the Rohingya Refugees Camps. Staff Reporter Population is so high in all zones that people keep moving from one to another places. Balukhali 2 camp is one of the camp zones where people seem to spread more all around due to the broader roads […]
Rakhine Women’s Gang Rape Case Against Myanmar Army
Staff Reporter A Rakhine woman has filed a gang rape case against three members of Myanmar’s military. Sittui, a resident of Rathdong Township, filed the case with the Township Police Station. The 36-year-old woman from Uga village in Rathdong alleged that three Myanmar soldiers were gang-raping her at gunpoint. He was subjected to forensic examination […]
Activist doesn’t want Americans ‘growing numb’ to plight of Syrian refugees
Lena Arkawi wakes up every day to photos of dead children on her phone. She's part of a network of American activists working to help the people of Syria, but this job comes with the frustration of knowing she cannot help everyone who needs it. Arkawi is a Syrian-American who grew up without a strong […]
What happened next: the refugee who came to stay and other stories
The housemates After Helen Pidd and Yasser, her Syrian lodger, wrote about their house-share in January, they were inundated with offers of help, dinner invitations and football tickets. Readers asked how they, too, could host a refugee: an 89-year-old retired academic put up a friend of Yasser’s. Burnage Academy, a boys’ school in south Manchester, […]
Ten women die in refugee boat accident off Libyan coast
Ten women have died in a new migrant boat accident off the coast of Libya in the Mediterranean Sea, Italian authorities said, as they began the gruesome task of removing hundreds of corpses from another salvaged wreck. The women were found dead in the bottom of a partially submerged dinghy, said Italian coastguard spokesman Captain […]
Dozens of Syrians forced into sexual slavery in derelict Lebanese house
Mercy Refugees House:Tucked in a leafy suburb of the Lebanese town of Jounieh, a short drive from the sparkling Mediterranean, stands a monument to human cruelty. In this derelict two-story house, 75 Syrian women were forced into sexual slavery, the largest human trafficking network ever uncovered in Lebanon. Here, the women were imprisoned after arriving […]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 […]
