Myanmar should comply with a United Nations committee's request for information on the military's responsibility for widespread rape of Rohingya women and girls in northern Rakhine State, Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Fortify Rights said yesterday.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has unveiled his country's strategy to step up its response to the Rohingya crisis which has left hundreds of thousands of Rohingyas to seek refuge in Bangladesh.

Canada has adopted a fresh set of strategies to respond to Rohingya crisis, focusing on the needs of women and girls in the aspects of human rights and gender equality.

Walking through the muddy paths, Priyanka witnessed the men, women, children and elderly, all crammed in the makeshift refugee camps after fleeing the brutal crackdown by the Myanmar military.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says one lakh of the displaced Rohingya people, now living in Bangladesh, will be shifted to Bhasanchar Island in Noakhali soon for giving them shelter there until their repatriation.

The large-scale population displacement from Myanmar has created an unprecedented situation in Bangladesh and highlighted that resilience and mutual trust are embedded values in the state architecture. A country that has the highest population density sits amidst a global crisis, which has been declared as a L3 (highest) level emergency by several UN organisations including UNICEF, WFP and UNHRC.

Her journey and experience thus far have already reminded everyone of the horrors of the Rohingya crisis that began late last year, as she visited the bordering region of Teknaf in Cox's Bazar where hundreds and thousands of refugees are now stationed.

Myanmar Border Guard Police (BGP) yesterday asked Rohingyas living on no man's land along the Tombru border in Bandarban to leave the area.

Myanmar urges Bangladesh to start the repatriation of 1,101 verified Rohingyas out of 8,032 persons received from Bangladesh amid a very slow verification process of Rohingyas.

The UN Human Rights Council (HRC) has adopted the draft report on the human rights review of Bangladesh, with recommendations on taking steps to halt forced disappearance, extra judicial killing, and ensure freedom of expression in media, politics and religion.

The Bangladesh delegation to the United Nation's Universal Periodic Review failed to respond to pressing human rights concerns in the country, Human Rights Watch said yesterday.

The Joint Working Group has failed to fix any date to start repatriation of around 700,000 Rohingyas even three months after Bangladesh handed over a list of 8,032 refugees to Myanmar.

The 12-year-old Rohingya refugee dream of Ramadan back in his own village -- fish to break the day's fast, gifts from his family and relaxing beneath the trees before evening prayers at the mosque.

UN Security Council members, except China and Russia, have called for robust council actions so that Myanmar addresses the root cause of the Rohingya crisis, grants the refugees citizenship and holds those who carried out atrocities against them accountable.

Asian Development Bank (ADB) is considering grant support to Bangladesh to help tackle Rohingya crisis.

The United States indirectly criticises China for shielding Myanmar from strong UN Security Council action over a military crackdown against mainly Rohingya Muslims that the US and other countries have denounced as ethnic cleansing.

The World Bank has finally agreed to provide Bangladesh a grant to meet the basic needs of around one million Rohingyas who fled their homeland Myanmar, a high government official said.

Dr Debapriya Bhattacharya, distinguished Fellow of Center for Policy Dialogue (CPD), says that Bangladesh plunged into multidimensional problems for Rohingya crisis affecting its economy and employment.

While locals in Cox's Bazar are bearing the brunt of socio-economic and environmental damages due to the massive influx of Rohingyas, their needs are being largely overlooked, said local government representatives and officials of the district yesterday.

Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has underlined the need for "safe, speedy and sustainable return" of the Rohingyas to Myanmar from Bangladesh.