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...
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...
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...
The United Nations announced on Monday it was seeking nearly $1 billion to provide life-saving aid this year for some 1.5 million Rohingya refugees and their hosts in Bangladesh.
The United Nations migration agency has reversed cuts to funding for Rohingya refugees in Indonesia, its top official in the country said on Tuesday, days after it slashed assistance because of US president Donald Trump鈥檚 foreign aid funding freeze...
THE Rohingya influx into Bangladesh keeps taking place slowly as they flee violence and a fearful situation in their native place of Rakhine, which is reported for long to have been caught in conflicts. The Office of the Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner says that 53,948 Rohingyas were given registration by the office at hand and the Office of the...
Visiting United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi hoped that the international community would renew its focus to resolve the Rohingya crisis...
At least 75 Rohingya refugees arrived by boat at a tourist beach in western Indonesia on Wednesday, but were stopped by authorities from disembarking, local officials said...
Climate refugees residing in Cox鈥檚 Bazar staged a protest on Tuesday, demanding cancellation of the eviction plan linked to the airport expansion project...
Sri Lanka鈥檚 navy said on Thursday it was heading to aid a group of around 100 Rohingya refugees from war-torn Myanmar adrift in a fishing trawler off the Indian Ocean island...
THE persecution of the Rohingyas in Myanmar, especially in Rakhine State, has caused multiple rounds of forced migration into Bangladesh. This trend is rooted in long-standing exclusionary policies and military actions targeting the Rohingyas because of their ethnicity and religious differences, depriving and expelling them of their homeland...
Israel formally notified the United Nations of its decision to sever ties with the agency supporting Palestinian refugees, it said Monday, after lawmakers voted to ban the organisation...
Thai police arrested a trio suspected people smugglers over the deaths of three Rohingya refugees who suffocated in the back of trucks in Thailand, officers said Saturday.
The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees warned Wednesday of the risk of famine in Gaza, a day after the United States said Israel had been warned to improve...
Migrants, refugees and human trafficking victims face alarming treatment in Tunisia, United Nations experts warned on Monday...
On the seventh anniversary of the Rohingya influx into Bangladesh, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on Sunday welcomed Bangladesh鈥檚 renewed commitment to supporting the forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals as outlined by chief advisor to thr interim government professor Muhammad Yunus...
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, in a preliminary report released on Friday, said that about 650 people were killed during...
ON JULY 26, senior United Nations officials briefed the UN Security Council about the terrible situation in Gaza. 鈥楳ore than two million people in Gaza remain trapped in an endless nightmare of death and destruction on a staggering scale鈥�, said deputy commissioner general Antonia De Meo of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees...