Canada's special envoy on the Rohingya crisis Bob Rae has said it would be “unconscionable” for the UN member states to sanction a repatriation that was forced, or that did not include basic protections of human security and human rights.

India and Myanmar signs a Memorandum of Understanding for socio-economic development in Rakhine and building prefabricated houses there for facilitating Rohingya refugees’ safe return.

Terming the atrocities on Rohingya people in Myanmar’s Rakhine state “ethnic cleansing”, visiting Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim calls upon the global organisations to work together for ensuring their safe return to their own country.

The Government of Myanmar has informed UN Special Rapporteur Yanghee Lee that all access to the country has been denied and cooperation withdrawn for the duration of her tenure.

Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh want to return to Myanmar only after their safety and equal rights and free movement are ensued, according to a report of charity organisation Oxfam.

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim is to visit Rohingya Refugee camps in Cox's Bazar tomorrow to see the plight of Rohingyas who fled from a military crackdown in Myanmar's Rakhine state since August 25.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and visiting Turkish premier Binali Yildirm agree to continue to work together for socio-economic development and issues of mutual concerns like Rohingya crisis.

A six-member Myanmar delegation arrives in Dhaka today for a meeting to set up the Joint Working Group, which would facilitate the repatriation of Rohingyas who fled violence in Rakhine State.

Every dawn, Hamida's two-year-old girl wakes up and cries, hearing the sound of Myanmar army's heavy vehicles. She grabs her mother

The United States has identified one person and it might impose sanctions on over the brutal crackdown in Myanmar against minority Rohingya Muslims and is examining others, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says.

The UNHCR has said it is increasingly worried about the deterioration of the overall environment in which Rohingya refugees are living, facing a multitude of protection risks.

A total of 8,44,227 Rohingyas have undergone biometric registration till December 14, an official release says.

At least 6,700 Rohingyas were killed in the first month of a Myanmar army crackdown on rebels in Rakhine State that began in late August, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said yesterday.

The world renowned 114 organisations and 32 individuals in a joint statement underscores the need for prioritising protection of the civilians in Rakhine and called upon the Myanmar authority to address the roots of the conflict.

Surveys conducted by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in refugee settlement camps in Bangladesh estimate that at least 6,700 Rohingya, in the most conservative estimations, were killed in Myanmar between August 25 and September 24 after violence broke out in its Rakhine state.

UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman says the 'origins and solutions to the Rohingya crisis rest in Myanmar'.

A delegation of Myanmar working group will visit Bangladesh on December 19 to ascertain the modalities for execution of the bilateral deal signed between Dhaka and Naypyidaw for repatriation of forcibly displaced Rohingya people.

Human Rights Watch has disapproved of the Rohingya repatriation deal inked between Bangladesh and Myanmar, and said it will “be bad” for the refugees.

Winter is coming, and the now more than 620,000 Rohingyas living temporarily in Bangladesh need to worry about adequate winter clothing, food, and possible firewood to burn to keep them warm for the next few months.

In the past weeks, three important developments related to the Rohingya issue took place. First was the agreement between the governments of Bangladesh and Myanmar on the refugee repatriation.