Chief Adviser to the interim government Muhammad Yunus today called for an expedited third-country resettlement of Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh.
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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After a two-year pause, the conflict between the Arakan Army (AA) and Myanmar’s military junta has resurged in Rakhine.
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.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has appreciated Bangladesh’s overall migration management and gradual prevention of irregular migration enabling regular migration.
Arab film and TV star and World Food Programme (WFP) Goodwill Ambassador Hend Sabry visits the Rohingya families in the refugee camps of Bangladesh to show that suffering has no borders and humanity has no boundaries.
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan says the government will install barbed wire fences around the Rohingya camps in Cox's Bazar soon, aiming to stop the spread of Rohingyas across the country.
Bangladesh will brief the diplomats stationed in Dhaka about the latest situation over the Rohingya issue tomorrow as two consecutive efforts to begin the repatriation of the displaced people failed amid their unwillingness and trust-deficit among them.
Amarpreet Singh and Jeevan Jyot Singh, two Indian volunteers with Khalsa Aid, stand looking at the long lines of refugees behind a truck laden with sacks of rice in Balukhali area of Ukhia. They are a little taken aback at the sheer number of people.
The humanitarian situation in parts of Bangladesh sheltering hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees continues to deteriorate, making it one of the fastest growing refugee crises of recent years, according to the United Nations.
British High Commissioner in Dhaka Alison Blake says there is now a global understanding that the decades-old crisis in Myanmar’s Rakhine State’s cannot be allowed to continue and the UK is active to find a lasting solution to the Rohingya situation.
The Turkish Deputy Prime Minister in a meeting with Bangladesh Ambassador to Turkey thanks the Bangladesh government for hosting a big number of the Rohingya refugees.
Britain announces an additional £25million aid to meet the urgent needs of the people in both Myanmar and Bangladesh affected by the violence in Rakhine state.
A rubella and polio vaccination campaign for 1.5 lakh children of Rohingya refugees started in Ukhia and Teknaf upazilas of Cox’s Bazar this morning as Bangladesh sees an influx of people fleeing persecution in Myanmar.
Amid an international outcry over the military persecution of Rohingyas in Rakhine, Russia yesterday called on other countries to refrain from interfering in Myanmar's internal affairs.
Dhaka summons Myanmar envoy in Dhaka and warned of “unwarranted consequence” over air space violation by Burmese military
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said that Myanmar military is targeting new areas in Maungdaw town for destruction.
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia condemns the government for “obstructing” its central relief team from going to Ukhia upazila in Cox’s Bazar to provide humanitarian assistance to Rohingya refugees.
