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Number of Rohingyas in Bangladesh rises to 480,000: UN
The United Nations drastically increases the estimated number of Rohingya Muslims who have fled violence in Myanmar to 480,000 as Bangladesh eases restrictions on aid groups working in refugee camps and seeks $250 million to cope with the crisis.
26 September 2017, 15:42 PM
UNHCR calls for redoubling of humanitarian efforts in Bangladesh
Expressing concern over conditions of 436,000 Rohingya refugees who have fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar, the UNHCR calls for a redoubling of the international humanitarian response in Bangladesh.
26 September 2017, 09:47 AM
UN experts urge Suu Kyi to visit Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar
Seven UN experts call upon Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi to personally meet the Rohingya refugees who have fled persecution in the country’s Rakhine State and taken shelter to Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar.
26 September 2017, 09:05 AM
UN Security Council meets Thursday on Rohingya crisis
The UN Security Council will meet Thursday to discuss the violence in Myanmar and hear a briefing from UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on the crisis, diplomats said.
26 September 2017, 07:45 AM
BNP trying to do politics with Rohingya issue: Quader
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader alleges that BNP is trying to do politics with the Rohingya refugee crisis issue.
26 September 2017, 07:19 AM
Dhaka University protests Rohingya persecution
Dhaka University teachers, students and employees form a human chain protesting persecution of the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar’s Rakhine state.
26 September 2017, 07:08 AM
Myanmar lies at UN, says no ethnic cleansing, genocide against Muslims
Amid condemnation around the world and UN calling the situation in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, "a textbook example of ethnic cleansing", Myanmar's UN ambassador lied to UN saying that there is no "ethnic cleansing" or genocide taking place against Muslims.
26 September 2017, 04:42 AM
Mount pressure to halt Myanmar military crackdown, APRRN asks int’l community
Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network urges international community to apply all possible measures to mount pressure on Myanmar to halt military operations for protecting civilians and unfettered humanitarian access to Rakhine State.
25 September 2017, 15:53 PM
Malaysia's dissent on Myanmar statement reveals cracks in ASEAN facade
Dissent surfaces again in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) after Malaysia disavows a statement issued by the bloc's chairman, the Philippines, as misrepresenting "the reality" of an exodus of 430,000 ethnic Rohingya from Myanmar
25 September 2017, 14:39 PM
25,000 Rohingyas to be shifted from Bandarban to Cox’s Bazar: Quader
Bangladesh government will shift the nearly 25,000 Rohingyas, who have taken shelter in Naikhongchhari upazila of Bandarban, to Cox’s Bazar, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has said.
25 September 2017, 13:34 PM
Solution to Rohingya crisis lies with Myanmar: UNHCR chief
UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi says that the solutions to Rohingya refugee crisis lie with Myanmar.
25 September 2017, 12:55 PM
Undocumented Rohingyas see 3.7-fold rise: Report
Some 607,735 undocumented Rohingyas have been identified in four upazilas of Cox's Bazar district and 53 percent of them are women and girls, says a new report.
25 September 2017, 12:18 PM
China favours permanent solution of Rohingya crisis
Communist Party of China assures Bangladesh of convincing Myanmar government to resolve the Rohingya problem permanently. The assurance comes from a meeting in Beijing between the CPC and visiting 18-member Awami League delegation headed by its presidium member Lt Col (retd) Faruk Khan.
25 September 2017, 12:03 PM
India has no right to mistreat refugees: HRW
Human Rights Watch slams Indian authorities for “mistreating” the Rohingya refugees and said the country had no rights to conduct such behaviour.
25 September 2017, 07:35 AM
Horrific tale of a rescued Rohingya child
Bangladesh police rescue a Rohingya minor child, who came to the country fleeing persecution in Myanmar, from Muslimbagh residential area in Srimangal upazila of Moulvibazar.
25 September 2017, 06:37 AM
Bodies of 28 Hindu villagers found in Rakhine State: Myanmar
Myanmar government forces found on Sunday the bodies of 28 Hindu villagers who authorities suspected were killed by Muslim insurgents last month, at the beginning of a spasm of violence that has sent 430,000 Muslim Rohingya fleeing to Bangladesh.
25 September 2017, 04:43 AM
Global community must step up Rohingya aid: UN
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees says that the exodus of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar to Bangladesh is “the most urgent refugee emergency in the world” right now.
24 September 2017, 12:18 PM
Rohingyas in Bangladesh need 'massive' assistance: UN
Bangladesh needs "massive international assistance" to feed and shelter the 436,000 Rohingyas who have fled Myanmar in recent weeks, the head of the UN refugee agency says.
24 September 2017, 12:12 PM
Unicef aids for Rohingyas arrive
The first consignment of Unicef’s emergency supplies for Rohingya refugee children, that contains 100 tonnes of supplies, has arrived in Dhaka.
24 September 2017, 11:42 AM
Gang rape horrors haunt Rohingya refugees
Shamila clutches her daughter's hand so tightly it turns white as she recounts how soldiers broke into her home in Myanmar and gang-raped her in front of her children -- a story heard over and over in Bangladesh refugee camps.
24 September 2017, 11:24 AM