Rohingya

The 4 minute 13 second long documentary does not have any narration or dialogue, and was shot entirely by Josim on his smartphone. A documentary on Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, titled “A Pair of Sandal,” has...

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim has praised Bangladesh’s efforts in “lending a hand” to Rohingya Muslims ahead of his two-day official visit to see the plight of the Burmese refugees. According to the itinerary of his...

The United Nations human rights chief has said an act of genocide against Rohingya Muslims by state forces in Myanmar cannot be ruled out. Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein was addressing a Human Rights Council session in Geneva....

In just three months an estimated 624,251 Rohingya refugees have crossed into Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, fleeing violence and oppression in Myanmar’s Northern Rakhine State. Of these, over 1,800 have arrived in the past seven days. This...

Bangladesh has signed a deal with Myanmar to return hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who fled a recent army crackdown. No details have been released of the deal, which was signed by officials in the...

On Wednesday, the United States said the military operation that drove 620,000 Rohingya to seek sanctuary in neighboring, largely Muslim Bangladesh, amounted to “ethnic cleansing”, echoing an accusation first leveled by top U.N. officials in the...

With the arrival of approximately 618,000 newly displaced people from Myanmar since 25 August 2017, both refugees and host communities face widespread poverty and hunger, and critically high under-nutrition rates. Supported by the United Nations World...

Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Tuesday she hopes talks with Bangladesh this week will result in a memorandum of understanding on the “safe and voluntary return” of Rohingya Muslims who fled...

The number of new arrivals has increased since the MR campaign, which also had challenges reaching out to all children in view of the movement of people within the camps and settlements. An increase in the...

Since 25 August, an estimated 613,000 Rohingya refugees have arrived in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, fleeing violence in Myanmar. The total refugee population in the area is now over 826,000. The makeshift sites where the Rohingyas have...