Foreign Affairs Adviser Touhid Hossain said yesterday that while the Bay of Bengal holds significant importance for Bangladesh, it also attracts the attention of global powers like India, the US, and China, each of whom has their own strategic interests in the region.
"We must pay attention," Yunus said at a high-level discussion on the Rohingya crisis held on the sidelines of UN General Assembly
"The international community cannot let Bangladesh shoulder this enormous responsibility alone," Uzra Zeya said at the high-level UNGA side event on Rohingya crisis
International community should play a more active role
Community leaders have been pressured to compile lists of at least 50 men for each small village and at least 100 for each IDP camp and large village
Review of ‘The Displaced Rohingyas: A Tale Of A Vulnerable Community’ (Routledge, 2024), edited by SK Tawfique M Haque, Bulbul Siddiqi, and Mahmudur Rahman Bhuiyan.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday called upon the international community to take measures to repatriate Rohingyas to their homeland of Myanmar and ensure their dignified lives there.
With the escalation of conflict in Myanmar, the possibility of Rohingya repatriation materialising anytime soon has become remote, heaping the challenges for the Bangladesh government in managing the displaced people in the face of shrinking humanitarian aid for them.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today called upon the international community to take measures to repatriate Rohingyas to their homeland of Myanmar and ensure their dignified lives there
The current session needs to build up on previous discussions and resolutions on the Rohingya crisis over the last few years.
Maj Gen ANM Muniruzzaman, ndc, psc (retd) spoke to us regarding the current tensions at the Bangladesh-Myanmar border.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday (September 20, 2022) reiterated her call to the international community and the United Nations (UN) to play intensified role in solving the Rohingya crisis by repatriating the forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals to their motherland.
Many Rohingya women and children who managed to flee rape and genocide in Myanmar end up in the trap of sex trade and trafficking inside the refugee camps in Bangladesh.
The Rohingya genocide day on August 25 brought to the fore diverse suggestions for a sustainable solution to the Rohingya crisis. Two similar proposals, however, stand out. One was from US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the other was from the Japanese Ambassador to Bangladesh, Ito Naoki.
The Indian Home Ministry today said Rohingya refugees in New Delhi would be kept at a detention centre till they are deported, refuting central Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri's statement made earlier promising flats and security to members of the Muslim minority community members from Myanmar.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today (August 17, 2022) reiterated her call to Myanmar to take back more than one million Rohingyas from their temporary shelter in Bangladesh.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi today (August 7, 2022) said his country will continue supporting Bangladesh’s development journey, describing Dhaka as their “strategic development partner”.
The Gambia’s case against Myanmar for the genocide of Rohingyas is now all set to be heard and judged by the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) today approved a $41.4 million grant to help improve infrastructure and manage the basic needs of Rohingyas, who were forcibly displaced from Myanmar and took shelter in Bangladesh.
