EIGHT years after the mass flight from Myanmar, roughly a million Rohingya remain in Bangladesh, concentrated in 33 hyper-dense camps in Cox鈥檚 Bazar, with additional families relocated to the government-built settlement on Bhasan Char. The scale and duration of displacement, coupled with dwindling aid, have shifted the situation from a temporary...
ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights, a platform of current and former Southeast Asian lawmakers, on Wednesday proposed an international conference involving Bangladesh, China, and ASEAN countries to resolve the Rohingya crisis...
The Rohingya crisis has worsened with more displaced people from the conflict-ridden Rakhine State of Myanmar entering Bangladesh while not a single person of them has returned to their homeland over the past eight years of the large-scale exodus since August 25, 2017.
Chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus was apprised of overall security aspects including the border situation and Rohingya crisis in a meeting at his residence-cum office Jamuna.
Two United States high officials, deputy assistant secretary at the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs Nicole Ann Chulick arrived at Dhaka on Tuesday, and deputy assistant secretary at the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs...
Visiting United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi hoped that the international community would renew its focus to resolve the Rohingya crisis...
Foreign adviser Md Touhid Hossain urged the international community to come forward to support Rohingyas, noting that any foreign fund cuts would make addressing the Rohingya humanitarian crisis even harder...
RECENTLY, we travelled to Cox鈥檚 Bazar, where around one million Rohingya refugees live in 33 congested camps. Among them are hundreds of thousands of children 鈥� more than...
UPON publication of the report by the Advisory Commission on Rakhine State led by former UN secretary general Kofi Annan in August 2017, there should not have been any debate over the Rohingya people鈥檚 nationality and citizenship issues. According to media reports, in 2017, Myanmar and Bangladesh signed an agreement regarding the...
Foreign adviser Md Touhid Hossain on Saturday underlined the need for a national consensus to address the Rohingya crisis, which has been further complicated by the ongoing civil war in Myanmar, particularly in Rakhine State...
Bangladesh president Mohammed Shahabuddin on Wednesday called upon the international community, including Canada to take pragmatic measures to solve the long-standing Rohingya crisis.
The United Nations鈥� World Food Programme has received new contribution of $121 million from USAID鈥檚 bureau for humanitarian assistance to support ongoing humanitarian efforts in the...
THE Rohingya crisis, which began in 2017 with the forced migration of over 700,000 Rohingya individuals from Myanmar to Bangladesh, continues to represent one of the most intricate humanitarian and geopolitical dilemmas in South and Southeast Asia. Bangladesh has been pivotal in offering sanctuary and addressing the challenges posed by this...
Foreign minister Hasan Mahmud on Wednesday said that US assistant secretary of state for the bureau of South and Central Asian affairs Donald Lu鈥檚 forthcoming visit would have a focus on the Rohingya crisis...