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Hopes abound as Myanmar curriculum reaches Rohingya refugee children in Bangladesh
Rohingya children living in refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar are progressing with their Myanmar education, with the arrival of new textbooks setting a government and UN-backed program on course to prepare the hundreds of thousands of children for a future return to their home country. Around 400,000 school-aged children are among more than 1 million […]
Preparations underway at Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar to tackle Cyclone Asani
Cox’s Bazar District Administration has taken preparations in advance to ensure safety of Rohingyas in the refugee camps in Ukhiya and Teknaf upazilas of Cox’s Bazar as there is a forecast of cyclone “Asani” under the influence of low pressure in the Bay of Bengal. The Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner (RRRC) issued a notification […]
Over 450 Rohingya detained while celebrating Eid on beach
Bangladesh police detained 450 Rohingya celebrating a Muslim festival on a beach, officials said on Thursday, in a further sign of growing intolerance towards the refugees. Bangladesh bans the 920,000 mostly Muslim Rohingya refugees from leaving camps surrounded by barbed wire in the southeast where they have been stuck for almost five years. Most fled […]
Bangladesh says it suspended ‘illegal coaching businesses’, not schools at Rohingya camps
The Bangladesh government has said the educational facilities suspended at Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar were “private coaching businesses”, not schools The clarification came in a foreign ministry statement on Thursday following a report that the authorities shuttered dozens of schools at the camps for operating without permission. “COVID-19 induced suspensions and enjoying holidays […]
Bangladeshi scientists launch IsDB-funded eco-friendly homes in Rohingya camps
Bangladeshi scientists have introduced eco-friendly housing to Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar using a new durable material developed in a project financed by the Jeddah-based Islamic Development Bank. Bangladesh hosts more than 1.1 million Rohingya who fled neighboring Myanmar during a military crackdown in 2017. Most of them live in Cox’s Bazar district, a […]
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 […]
Crown Princess Mary of Denmark visits a Rohingya refugee camp during three-day trip to Bangladesh
Crown Princess Mary of Denmark visited a Rohingya refugee camp during her three-day trip to Bangladesh on Tuesday. The 50-year-old was seen greeting the community at the Kutupalong camp – the largest refugee camp in the world – in Cox’s Bazar. The princess met with the Rohingya people and host communities on camps number five, six, […]
Home minister: Issuance of UNHCR card to Rohingya refugees will be reviewed
LARUT, April 23 ― The government will review the issuance of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) cards to Rohingya refugees in the country, said Home Minister Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainudin. He said the study had to be done following the escape of hundreds of Rohingya detainees from the Sungai Bakap Immigration Detention Depot […]
Rohingyas: media messaging, policies need to change
WITHOUT a doubt, the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, did the right thing in September 2017 by granting protection to the Rohingya Muslim minority arriving in Bangladesh. The refugees and forced migrants were fleeing a genocide perpetrated by Myanmar’s brutal military, which seized land, burnt houses, mosques and hundreds of villages. A half of the Rohingya […]
UN refugee agency ‘shocked’ at Rohingya deaths in Malaysia escape
The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) has said it is “shocked and deeply saddened” by the deaths of six Rohingya, including two children, who died on Wednesday in an escape this week from a temporary immigration detention centre in northern Malaysia. The group was among 528 Rohingya people who fled the facility in the early hours of […]Donate Now
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Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Tuesday said a good number of Rohingyas are coming to Bangladesh from India through fence areas in recent times, which he sees as a matter of concern. “Unfortunately, many Rohingyas are coming to Bangladesh from India,” he told reporters, adding that those Rohingyas went to India in 2012. […]
