Rohingya crisis

Chinese Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs Kong Xuanyou ha reiterated his country’s commitment to play a positive and constructive role in resolving the Rohingya crisis. He also appreciated the staunch political will of Bangladesh to resolve...

The two-day 45th session of the foreign ministers meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) concluded here today with a call for accountability for the atrocities and human rights violations in Rakhine state and to...

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday called upon the countries like Russia, China, India and Japan to play a strong role in resolving the protracted Rohingya crisis as the visiting United Nations Security Council (UNSC) team...

Pope Francis today said the international community must take “decisive measures” to address the Rohingya crisis taking into account the “gravity of the situation” as he joined a civic reception hosted by President Abdul Hamid at...

News Hour: Ms. Helle Thorning-Schmidt, CEO of Save the Children International, Prime Minister of Denmark 2011-2015, met national and international media on Saturday, October 21, 2017, to discuss her experience of Bangladesh visit, Rohingya response plan,...

News Hour: Desperate living conditions and waterborne diseases are threatening more than 320,000 Rohingya refugee children who have fled to southern Bangladesh since late August, including some 10,000 who crossed from Myanmar over the past few...

News Hour The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) today promised to extend continued assistance to Bangladesh in handling the Rohingya crisis immediately providing Taka 35 crore, reports BSS. “The UN refugee agency assured us...

News Hour: Recent Rohingya crisis and the immense trenchant prescription issued by the security forces of Myanmar has now, at last, spread far and wide across the globe and seems to have caught the eyes of...

News Hour Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has sought expeditious UN and global interventions to protect all civilians in Myanmar’s Rakhine State irrespective of religion and ethnicity and take effective steps for a permanent solution to the...

News Hour: Recognising the unprecedented scale of the crisis in Bangladesh and Burma, Britain is providing an additional £25million to meet the urgent needs of both countries of those affected by the violence. In Bangladesh, where...