Rohingya refugee
Rohingya Genocide Remembrance Day / The international community has failed to protect the Rohingya
The perspective towards Rohingya refugees needs to shift from viewing them as a burden to recognising them as a competent community
World Refugee Day / A call for true solidarity with the Rohingya community
International stakeholders, the philanthropic community and private sector actors should increase financial aid to the Rohingya community.
World Refugee Day / Solidarity for refugees and refugee hosts
Since 2022, the security situation in the refugee camps has deteriorated—including killings, kidnapping, gender-based violence and child protection incidents.
Rohingya repatriation: Can we ever find a viable scheme?
International support for the Rohingya people is diminishing by the day.
For sustainable Rohingya repatriation, citizenship and security are must
A 30-member Myanmar delegation—during their recent visit to Cox’s Bazar—failed to make any commitment to the refugees regarding their request for repatriation to their original homes
UK announces £3 million in humanitarian support for Rohingyas
UK's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) Permanent Under-Secretary Sir Philip Barton has announced that UK will provide £3,000,000 (around Tk 42 crore) of new funding to support Rohingyas in Cox's Bazar and Bhasan Char
Between ifs and buts dwindles the future of the Rohingya
Is it a battle of numbers that give political actors the right to dehumanise them? We wish to believe that crises create the push for alternatives and that, in this case, collective actions will be towards this direction.
Rohingya repatriation: Easier said than done
Even if they go back to their homeland, what exactly is awaiting them there?
News Analysis / Rohingya Repatriation: China now active but uncertainties yet to clear up
China now appears to be quite active in trying to make the Rohingya repatriation a reality.
There’s no magic solution, UNSC says after visiting Rohingya camps
UN Security Council delegates complete visit at the Rohingya camps in Ukhia and assess first-hand the plight of the refugees sheltered there and Bangladesh's role in handling the responsibility of 700,000.
Rohingya refugee crisis, UN General Assembly and Bangladesh diplomacy
The latest incident of the Rohingya refugee influx into Bangladesh has produced a scenario which is different from earlier influxes in two aspects: one is humanitarian, which can be legally interpreted in various ways, from forced displacement to genocide. Killings, torture, rape, forced expulsion and starvation has driven nearly one million Rohingyas to take refuge in Bangladesh since August 2017.
Hold Myanmar to account
The recent comments made by three Nobel laureates when they visited Rohingya refugee camps in Cox's Bazar, have brought to the fore the need for the international community to be unanimous in taking concerted action against the genocide that forced more than a million Rohingyas to flee their homeland, Myanmar.
Diplomats for safe and dignified Rohingya return
Diplomats stationed in Dhaka lay emphasis on "safe, voluntary and dignified" return of Rohingyas from Bangladesh to Myanmar to make their return sustainable.
Rohingya children must be protected
We are appalled to learn that there are around 40,000 orphans among the three lakh children in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh.
Myanmar's Suu Kyi says army admission on killings a positive step
Myanmar's civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi says it is “positive” that the country's military is taking responsibility for the actions of troops, after the army said soldiers are involved in killing 10 captured Rohingya Muslims.
Korea to give $1.4m fund for Rohingyas
Korea will provide more US $1.4 million as humanitarian assistance for Rohingya refugees who have crossed into Bangladesh from Myanmar following persecution.
‘Refugee camp set up in Rakhine, 450 Hindus to be repatriated 1st’
Myanmar is to take back 450 Hindu refugees from Bangladesh at a refugee camp set up in Rakhine as the first step of repatriation process.
UN rights investigator calls for pressure on China, Russia over abuses on Rohingyas
The United Nations' independent investigator into human rights in Myanmar calls for international pressure on China and Russia to try to get them to oppose human rights abuses in Myanmar.
Rohingya Refugees: UN worried over safety
The UNHCR has said it is increasingly worried about the deterioration of the overall environment in which Rohingya refugees are living, facing a multitude of protection risks.