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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Climate Change and Open Drainage System in the Rohingya Refugees Camps Made People Fall in Illness: Medical Agencies Report.
Staff Correspondence Mercy Refugees House Coxbazar,Bangladesh. Increasing Temperature in between heavy rainfall along with open drainage system in the Rohingya Refugees Camps let people fall in illness as Medical Agencies Report in Coxbazar like high fever, diarrhea, belly ache, physical problems and cholera etc. Due to huge deforestation and population growth in the two Upazillas […]
Armed Police Battalion engaged to enhance security at Rohingya refugee camps
Since yesterday, 2 special police battalions – APBn 14 and APBn 16 will be in charge of duty inside the 34 refugee camps in Teknaf and Ukhia to ensure the security of Rohingyas. According to the officials, the Cox’s Bazar District police officials have already handed over the duties and left the camps. However, the […]
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, […]
Rohingyas lock down at the world’s largest refugee camp
To date, there have been no cases of COVID-19 amongst the close to a million Rohingya refugees currently sheltering at camps in southern Bangladesh. However, in the Cox’s Bazar region — where the largest camp, Kutupalong, is situated — there have been confirmed virus cases. Right now, the refugees are in lockdown. The majority of […]
Rohingya refugees sent to remote Bangladeshi island after weeks at sea
Hundreds more refugees still stranded on boats after being turned away by Malaysia Rohingya refugees believed to have spent weeks stranded on cramped boats at sea have been sent to a remote, uninhabited island by Bangladesh, while hundreds more remain adrift. Dozens of Rohingya landed on the coast of southern Bangladesh on Saturday, an official said, with some […]
Myanmar ships 800 freed Rohingya prisoners back to Rakhine
The Myanmar Government shipped hundreds of recently released Rohingya inmates back to the country’s restive western borderlands on Monday (April 20), after fears that its overcrowded prisons could become hotbeds for runaway Covid-19 (coronavirus) outbreaks. Men, women and children belonging to the stateless and long-persecuted Muslim minority were among nearly 25,000 prisoners freed last week […]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 […]
