India pushes 10 more Rohingyas into Bangladesh聽
The Indian Border Security Force pushed 10 more Rohingyas into Bangladesh through a border point in Baralekha upazila under聽 Moulvibazar on Monday morning.
Tags : Rohingya
5 Rohingyas return from Myanmar
At least five Rohingya people of a family came back to Bangladesh on Thursday, a few days after their spontaneous return to Myanmar鈥檚 Rakhine State.
Funding cuts increase monsoon risks for Rohingyas: UNHCR
Reductions in funding for a community maintenance programme in the Rohingya camps of Cox鈥檚 Bazar have not only affected their incomes but also compromised safety during the monsoon season, the UN Refugee Agency has warned...
Time world leaders started acting on Rohingya issues
THE Rohingyas, more than a million of them already sheltered in Bangladesh, may face constraints as, keeping to a release of the office of the United Nations Commissioner for Refugees, there has been a fresh influx of 150,000 Rohingyas in a year and a half. This is described as the largest after the 2017 influx when three quarters of a million Rohingyas left violence...
1.5 lakh Rohingyas entered Bangladesh in last 18 months: UNHCR
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on Friday called for more financial assistance from humanitarian partners as an additional 1,50,000 Rohingya people from Myanmar arrived in Bangladesh鈥檚 Cox鈥檚 Bazar in the last 18 months.
China, Canada vow stronger trade, Rohingya aid
China and Canada expressed their commitment to strengthening trade, investment, and humanitarian cooperation with Bangladesh while assuring continued support to address the protracted Rohingya crisis...
China, Canada pledge deeper trade ties with Bangladesh
China and Canada have expressed their commitment to strengthening trade, investment and humanitarian cooperation with Bangladesh while assuring continued support to address the long-drawn-out Rohingya crisis.
ARSA chief on 3-day remand for 鈥�4-murder鈥� in Rohingya camp
A Cox鈥檚 Bazar court on Wednesday granted three days police remand to Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army chief Ataullah Abu Ammar Jununi for his alleged involvement in the killing of four people in Rohingya camp in Cox鈥檚 Bazar in 2020...
Abduction ring prime suspect Rohingya youth arrested
Police arrested a Rohingya youth accused of being prime suspect in an abduction ring at a location at Teknaf municipality in Cox鈥檚 Bazar on Friday afternoon...
Left parties end Dhaka-Ctg road march
The two-day Dhaka-Chattogram road march by left political parties concluded on Saturday in Chattogram city, demanding聽 a halt to any bid to involve foreign companies in Chittagong port鈥檚 management and condemning any plan allowing a 鈥榟umanitarian corridor鈥� in the context of the Rohingya issue...
India pushes 41 more people into Bangladesh
The Indian Border Security Force pushed 41 individuals, including 14 Rohingyas, into Bangladesh through two border points under Jaintapur upazila in Sylhet and one border point under Borolekha upazila in Moulvibazar between Thursday night and Friday morning.
HRW urges Bangladesh to lift all restrictions on education for Rohingyas
The Human Rights Watch has urged Bangladesh鈥檚 interim government to urgently lift restrictions on education for Rohingyas and allow Rohingya children to enrol in schools outside the Cox鈥檚 Bazar refugee camps...
OIC for speedy Rohingya repatriation to Myanmar
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation has expressed its concern over the 鈥榞rave human rights violations鈥� primarily against the Rohingya Muslim community, as well as other Muslim groups in Myanmar.
ADB approves $58.6m grant, $28.1m loan for Rohingyas, host communities
The Asian Development Bank on Tuesday approved a $58.6 million grant from the Asian Development Fund and a $28.1 million concessional loan to provide basic infrastructure and critical services for displaced people from Myanmar and host communities in Bangladesh...
Bangladesh urges stronger OIC role in Rohingya issue
Foreign adviser Md Touhid Hossain on Sunday urged the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation to assume a stronger and more coordinated role to ensure justice for persecuted Rohingyas, as Bangladesh faces growing humanitarian and security pressures of millions of displaced Myanmar nationals.
China backs WFP food aid for Rohingyas
The United Nations World Food Programme welcomed a contribution from China, provided through the China International Development Cooperation Agency.
Rohingya crisis poses new security risks: Touhid
Foreign adviser Md Touhid Hossain warned that the unresolved Rohingya crisis could soon escalate into a serious threat to regional security if a sustainable solution was not urgently pursued.
We should not get involved in regional conflict: seminar
Academics, diplomats and journalists on Thursday at a seminar in Dhaka opined that the interim government should not get involved in any regional conflict over resolving the Rohingya issue...
Rohingyas hired to fight Arakan Army: report
The International Crisis Group, a global non-profit think tank, in a report on Wednesday said that Rohingya armed groups were recruiting Rohingyas sheltered in Bangladesh camps in Cox鈥檚 Bazar and were being trained to fight Myanmar鈥檚 rebel group Arakan Army that now controls Rakhine State...
48 Rohingyas registered in India pushed into Bangladesh
The Border Security Force of India has recently pushed at least 122 Rohingyas, including 48 registered by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in India, into Bangladesh...
Long road to Rohingya repatriation
OVER the past decade, the international community has watched the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar evolve into one of the most pressing humanitarian emergencies of our time. At the centre of the response has been the United Nations 鈥� praised for its humanitarian efforts, yet criticised for political paralysis and delayed action...
Edn of 2.30 lakh Rohingya children at risk: UNICEF聽
The education of around 2,30,000 Rohingya children in Bangladesh is under threat due to an acute and deepening funding crisis, according to the United Nations International Children鈥檚 Emergency Fund.
UNHCR reports 1st voluntary Rohingya return since 2017
At least 82 Rohingyas reportedly returned spontaneously to Myanmar鈥檚 Rakhine state last week, the first known instance of voluntary repatriation since the mass exodus of 2017, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees...
427 Rohingyas may have drowned in two shipwrecks in May: UN
The United Nations said on Friday that it feared that 427 Rohingya, Myanmar鈥檚 persecuted Muslim minority, had perished at sea in two shipwrecks on May 9 and 10 off the Myanmar coast....
Rohingya children receive 667 tonnes of dates from KSA
Saudi Arabia鈥檚 humanitarian arm the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre donated 667 tonnes of dates to support Rohingya children in Bangladesh...
Humanitarian channel, its pull effect
THE foreign affairs adviser鈥檚 statement of on April 27 to the media on humanitarian channel sparked debates and discussions across political, security and academic domains. The adviser said, 鈥楢ccording to the United Nations鈥� proposal, Bangladesh has agreed in principle to allow a humanitarian corridor to Rakhine. It will be a humanitarian passage. However, we have...
UN expert investigates reports of Indian navy casting Rohingyas into sea
A UN expert said on Thursday he was investigating 鈥榗redible reports鈥� that Rohingya refugees were forced off an Indian navy ship into the Andaman Sea, in what would be an 鈥榰nconscionable鈥� act.
Prolonged Rohingya crisis may destabilise region: Touhid
Foreign adviser Md Touhid Hossain on Sunday warned that the prolonged Rohingya crisis is an escalating threat to both Bangladesh and regional stability, urging stronger international action for a durable lasting solution to the crisis.
35 Rohingyas held while trying to flee Bhasan Char
The Rapid Action Battalion on Saturday detained 35 Rohingyas at Khazurtala embankment area in Chattogram while they were attempting to flee from Bhasan Char...
UNHCR urges Bangladesh to shelter1.13 lakh more Rohingyas
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has recently pressed the Office of the Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner to ensure accommodation of 1.13 lakh more Rohingyas amid uncertainty of repatriation...