Rohingya crisis
Rohingya Return: Bangladesh FM to visit Rakhine to see progress
Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali would visit Myanmar soon to see the situation in Rakhine before the start of repatriation of hundreds of thousands of forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals from Bangladesh.
10 July 2018, 18:00 PM
Misses the central issue of citizenship
As long as the West continues to control the United Nations, with Russia and China aiding and abetting them, there is little chance that the United Nations will be able to live up to its charter.
8 July 2018, 18:00 PM
Why the hush hush?
UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Myanmar Yanghee Lee has expressed concern that a memorandum of understanding signed in June between the UN and Myanmar has been kept secret.
8 July 2018, 18:00 PM
China urges Myanmar to start Rohingya repatriation soon
China, as part of its three-phase steps, urge Myanmar to start repatriation of Rohingyas as soon as possible saying it attaches great importance to Rohingya crisis.
8 July 2018, 10:19 AM
Unexplained murders raise fear in camps
As darkness descends, a sense of unshakeable foreboding grips Rohingya refugee camps in Balukhali and Kutupalong.
7 July 2018, 18:00 PM
Verification process to help find solutions for Rohingyas: UN
The United Nations says the verification process of Rohingyas in Bangladesh will help to find solutions for the roughly 900,000 Rohingyas who have fled Myanmar to Bangladesh.
7 July 2018, 08:15 AM
ADB okays $100m for Rohingyas
The Asian Development Bank has approved a grant assistance of $100 million -- the first of an envisaged package totaling $ 200m to help Bangladesh develop basic infrastructure and services for Rohingyas.
6 July 2018, 18:00 PM
ADB approves $100m grants for Rohingyas in Bangladesh camps
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) Board of Directors approves grant assistance of $100 million -- the first of an envisaged package totaling $200 million to help Bangladesh develop basic infrastructure and services for displaced persons (Rohingyas).
6 July 2018, 06:48 AM
Int'l community must work for peaceful Rohingya return: Swiss envoy
Switzerland Ambassador Rene Holenstein says the international community must work closely with Bangladesh and Myanmar so that the issues of safety and protection of the Rohingyas and the work toward a voluntary and peaceful repatriation in safety and dignity are addressed in an effective and comprehensive manner.
4 July 2018, 10:58 AM
Will Guterres' visit move the Wall?
Now that the chief of the UN himself has come and heard the “heartbreaking accounts from Rohingya refugees”, will the Wall hear the same? We mean the UN Security Council and the Myanmar government. Will they act to end the untold miseries of the world's most persecuted people of our time?
3 July 2018, 18:00 PM
Freedom on pitch
They may lack the glitz and glamour of the World Cup, but football clubs for stateless Rohingya refugees in Malaysia offer something more -- a 90-minute reprieve from a grinding existence on the fringes of society.
2 July 2018, 18:00 PM
Call for justice, safe return
As he walked through the alleys of the makeshift camps in rains and met Rohingya boys and girls, he remembered his granddaughters and tried to imagine what it would be like to see them in such conditions.
2 July 2018, 18:00 PM
We are all Rohingya: WB chief
Moved by the horrific stories of the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim says, “…we are all Rohingya”.
2 July 2018, 12:46 PM
UN to raise pressure on Myanmar
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres yesterday said they will put more pressure on Myanmar to make it understand what it should do over the Rohingya issue.
1 July 2018, 18:00 PM
UK calls for more int'l support for Rohingyas in Bangladesh
Minister of State for Asia and the Pacific Mark Field and UK Special Envoy for Gender Equality Joanna Roper calls for greater humanitarian assistance for the Rohingyas, particularly to help support the provision of education for refugees and host communities.
1 July 2018, 07:20 AM
Rohingya Crisis: Dhaka pins hope on Guterres visit
When Antonio Guterres visited Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox's Bazar in 2008, it housed only 10,800 Rohingyas. The total number of Rohingya population living in the district was around 27,000. They had arrived there in previous years and were not repatriated to Myanmar like many others.
30 June 2018, 18:00 PM
Rohingyas’ statelessness increases vulnerability to trafficking: Report
The Rohingya community's stateless status and inability to work legally in Bangladesh "increases their vulnerability" to human trafficking, says a global report.
30 June 2018, 09:15 AM
UK calls for stepping up support for Rohingyas
UK along with its international partners will continue to put “maximum pressure” on Myanmar to ensure justice for the Rohingya victims of the persecutions by military in Rakhine State as well as their safe and dignified return from Bangladesh.
29 June 2018, 18:00 PM
China pledges help in Rohingya return
China yesterday assured Bangladesh of full support for expediting the repatriation of the Rohingya refugees to Myanmar after Dhaka sought Beijing's help to this end.
29 June 2018, 18:00 PM
Rohingya Crisis: UK to mount pressure on Myanmar for justice
The United Kingdom along with its international partners will continue to put 'maximum pressure' on Myanmar to ensure justice for Rohingyas, says British Minister of State for Asia and the Pacific at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Mark Field.
29 June 2018, 05:23 AM