Rohingya refugees

Newly arrived Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar face dire conditions

The 11-member family of Mohammed Saber arrived at Refugee Camp 26 in Cox's Bazar on August 5, fleeing the atrocities of the Arakan Army in the Maungdaw Township of Rakhine State, Myanmar

Rohingya refugees: Forsaken and forgotten

Rohingya refugees remain stuck in a limbo with no effective solution to the crisis in sight.

Cyclone Mocha: US providing $250,000 for emergency relief efforts

The US is providing $250,000 to assist Cyclone Mocha emergency relief efforts in the country’s most severely affected areas

Hasina, Kishida for resolving Rohingya crisis to ensure regional stability

Bangladesh PM expressed her appreciation for Japan's support for displaced persons thus far, including its humanitarian assistance as the first country to do so for those resettled in Bhasan Char

Will the UNSC ever hold Myanmar accountable?

Repatriation is becoming a distant dream for the Rohingya

No specific date when Rohingya repatriation will begin: Momen

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen today (October 20, 2022) said the Chinese side is yet to come up with any good news on the Rohingya repatriation but they are continuing their efforts to that end.  

Take large number of Rohingyas: Home Minister to countries interested in resettlement

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan today requested countries, which had previously expressed interest in resettling Rohingyas in their states, to take in a large number of Rohingyas and alleviate Bangladesh’s problems.

5 Years of influx: Rohingya return a distant dream

Khin Maung dreamt of becoming a lawyer to help the Rohingyas realise their rights in a country where they were denied citizenship.

Rohingya refugees in New Delhi would be kept in detention centre till deported

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.

September 1, 2017
September 1, 2017

Deportation move of Rohingya refugees challenged in India

Two Rohingya refugees have moved India’s Supreme Court challenging the decision to deport them back to Myanmar, where they faced persecution, on various grounds including that such a move is in violation of international conventions.

September 1, 2017
September 1, 2017

400 die as Myanmar army steps up crackdown on Rohingya insurgents

Nearly 400 people have died in fighting that has rocked Myanmar's northwest for a week, new official data show, making it probably the deadliest bout of violence to engulf the country's Rohingya Muslim minority in decades.

August 30, 2017
August 30, 2017

4 Rohingyas die as boat capsizes in Naf river

Four Rohingya refugees die after a boat carrying the migrants fleeing persecution in Myanmar capsized in the Naf River at Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar.

August 28, 2017
August 28, 2017

BGB sends back 171 Rohingya refugees

As hundreds of Rohingyas continue to enter Bangladesh through different unguarded border points of Ukhia, Teknaf and Naikhyangchhari in last two days, Border Guard Bangladesh detains 171 Rohingya refugees and sends them back.

August 25, 2017
August 25, 2017

India to deport Rohingyas to Myanmar

India has said that Rohingya refugees living in Jammu and Kashmir states will be sent back to Myanmar

June 20, 2015
June 20, 2015

Overcoming compassion fatigue

We urge the Bangladesh government to review its Rohingya refugee policy, to robustly engage with the international community to compel Mynamar to create enabling conditions for the refugees to return, to refrain from taking new measures that may further jeopardise the interests of registered Rohingya refugees.

June 4, 2015
June 4, 2015

Citizenship for Rohingyas

The recent tragedy of hundreds of boat people floating in the wilderness of the sea without food and other basic amenities has drawn the world's attention to the protracted suffering of the Rohingyas.

May 29, 2015
May 29, 2015

The sighs of ancestors rock migrant boats

AS many as 8,000 refugees have been adrift in the Andaman Sea lately, some of them stranded for more than two months.

May 28, 2015
May 28, 2015

The sickness of illegal immigrants

Bangladesh relies on its workers' remittances but is seemingly happy to turn a blind eye as to why half a million of them choose to leave the country every year and how the nearly eight million currently abroad are treated.

May 20, 2015
May 20, 2015

Floating coffins

Since 2012, thousands of Rohingyas died in Arakan, and more than 150,000 people have been herded in the so-called Internally Displaced People Camps.