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UN urges int’l help for 1.2m Rohingyas
Top UN agency leaders have asked the international community to continue supporting the critical needs of 1.2 million people, Rohingya refugees and their local host communities, in south-eastern Bangladesh.
Agro kits for the malnourished Rohingyas
IOM, the UN Migration Agency, and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) are distributing 50,000 vegetable gardening kits to tackle malnutrition and improve the diet of people affected by the Rohingya refugee crisis in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.
South Asian Women in Middle East: Work contracts do little to deter abuse
Hundreds of thousands of South Asian women migrant workers in the Middle East have signed employment contracts that they do not understand or do not adequately protect them against discrimination and abuse, says a new report.
World leaders must engage in political process
UN Migration Agency IOM has urged world leaders to engage in a political process that will allow the Rohingya refugees to return home voluntarily, while appealing for additional funds for emergency life-saving assistance.
Force Myanmar to take back Rohingyas
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday urged Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) William Lacy
Migrant surge hits Greece, UN approves action on smugglers
Greece was hit by a huge new surge in migrants as the United Nations approved a European seize-and-destroy military operation against people smugglers in the Mediterranean.
159 more to return from Myanmar tomorrow
159 Bangladeshi human trafficking victims, who were rescued by Myanmar’s Navy, are scheduled to return home tomorrow.
Beauty belies dark trade
The dense mangrove forest on both sides of the road to the Bang Ben bay through Laem Son National Park is indeed intriguing.
Myanmar finds boat with 727 migrants
Myanmar's navy seizes a boat packed with 727 people off the country's southern coast.
IOM to repatriate rescued Bangladeshis
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) will repatriate the Bangladeshis rescued from boats in Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia.
UN bodies call to protect stranded migrants
UNHCR, OHCHR, IOM and SRSG calls upon leaders of Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand to protect the trafficking victims now stranded at sea.
'Thousands' of Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants stranded at sea
An international migration agency says thousands of refugees from Bangladesh and Myanmar are stranded at sea close to Thailand.
29 more Bangladeshis evacuated from Yemen
Twenty nine more Bangladeshi nationals have been evacuated from Sana, the capital of the war-torn Yemen, by International Organization for Migration.