Rohingya Refugee Crisis

Rohingya crisis: Bangladesh renews call for global action

Since November 2023, 1.8 lakh Rohingyas have fled to Bangladesh

WORLD REFUGEE DAY / ‘Realistically, repatriation is not possible at this time’

The 2025 Joint Response Plan has appealed for over $930 million, but so far, below 20 percent of that has been received.

Fund crunch hits Rohingyas hard

A humanitarian crisis in Cox’s Bazar Rohingya camps is brewing in the face of funding shortage for the refugees and more arrivals from the conflict-ridden Rakhine state of Myanmar.

Rohingya inflow: Strain on already crammed camps

The refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar have become overwhelmed with the recent inflow of Rohingyas arriving since November 2023, with authorities now scrambling to arrange accommodation and food for them.

Now is the time to act on Rohingya crisis

Bangladesh faces challenges managing the Rohingya crisis without a clear asylum policy.

Yunus urges expedited third-country resettlement of Rohingya refugees

Chief Adviser to the interim government Muhammad Yunus today called for an expedited third-country resettlement of Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh.

World Refugee Day / Building resilience ignites ‘hope away from home’ for Rohingya refugees

This World Refugee Day, there is an urgent need to invest in collective efforts to allow the Rohingya to become self-reliant.

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Rakhine is boiling again. Will we look away?

After a two-year pause, the conflict between the Arakan Army (AA) and Myanmar’s military junta has resurged in Rakhine.

September 8, 2017
September 8, 2017

Rohingya refugee camp capacity exhausted in Bangladesh: UN

Amid a dramatic increase in the number of refugees fleeing violence in Myanmar’s Northern Rakhine state, UNHCR calls for urgent action to address the root causes of the recent surge in violence, so that people are no longer compelled to flee and can eventually return home in safety and dignity.

September 8, 2017
September 8, 2017

Stop atrocities, Bangladesh Buddhists urge Myanmar

Buddhist community in Bangladesh calls upon the Myanmar government to stop ongoing atrocities on Rohingya Muslims in northern Rakhine state.

September 8, 2017
September 8, 2017

'Military atrocities on Rohingyas have hallmarks of ethnic cleansing'

Ethnic Rohingya Muslims fleeing security forces in Myanmar’s Rakhine State have described killings, shelling, and arson in their villages that have all the hallmarks of a campaign of “ethnic cleansing,” Human Rights Watch says.

September 8, 2017
September 8, 2017

Rohingya issue: India refuses to be part of global declaration against Myanmar

In yet another show of solidarity with Myanmar, India has refused to be a part of a declaration adopted at an international parliamentary forum conference in Indonesia as it carried "inappropriate" reference to violence in Rakhine state from where 1,64,000 Rohingyas have fled to Bangladesh.

September 8, 2017
September 8, 2017

Rohingya 'shot dead in Myanmar' buried in Bangladesh

Five Rohingya villagers whose distraught relatives say they were shot dead by the Myanmar military have been buried in Bangladesh at a mass funeral attended by hundreds of people after their bodies were carried across the border.

September 7, 2017
September 7, 2017

Myanmar trying to protect all citizens in strife-torn state: Suu Kyi

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Thursday her government was doing its best to protect everyone in the strife-torn state of Rakhine, as the estimated number of Rohingya Muslims who have fled to Bangladesh leapt by 18,000 in one day, to 164,000.

September 7, 2017
September 7, 2017

Turkey to stand beside Rohingyas: Turkish First Lady Emine Erdogan

Visiting Turkish First Lady Emine Erdogan has affirmed that the government of Turkey will stand beside the Rohingyas, who have fled to Bangladesh in the face of ethnic cleansing in Myanmar's Rakhine.

September 6, 2017
September 6, 2017

Dhaka asks Myanmar to de-escalate violence in Rakhine to stop Rohingya influx

Dhaka asks Myanmar to de-escalate the ongoing violence in Rakhine state to stop the ongoing influx of Rohingyas into Bangladesh. The call comes when Charge’d Affairs of Myanmar Embassy in Dhaka, responding to a summons, meets director general (Southeast Asia Wing) of foreign ministry in Dhaka.

September 6, 2017
September 6, 2017

UN migration agency appeals for USD18m for Rohingya refugees

The UN Migration Agency, IOM, in Bangladesh has appealed for an immediate fund of US$ 18 million for humanitarian assistance as tens of thousands of Rohingya continue to stream into Bangladesh since August 25.

September 6, 2017
September 6, 2017

SCBA urges govt to give shelter to Rohingyas

The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) requests the government to give shelter to the Rohingyas fleeing violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state.