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Report by UNHCR | View original More than 900,000 Rohingya refugees living across 34 camps in Cox’s Bazar faced a multitude of challenges in 2021 including devastating fires, flooding, the...
Read more- 12/08/2021
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Myanmar Military denies Rohingya COVID-19 vaccinations: “This confirms the ongoing genocide” For Immediate Release The Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK) condemns the Myanmar junta’s plans to deliberately withhold COVID-19 vaccinations from...
Read more- 11/08/2021
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Bangladesh began vaccinating thousands of Rohingya Muslims on Tuesday in the world’s largest refugee settlement amid a surge in Covid-19 infections in the country, officials said. Aid workers have long warned...
Read more- 02/06/2021
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By Swati Rana, Eastern Eye A UN agency has sought global support for Covid-19 vaccinations among refugees in Asia as well as the Rohingya in Bangladesh. The UNHCR said the...
Read more- 25/05/2021
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By Hilal Mir, Anadolu Agency Dozens of Rohingya refugees, considered ‘illegal immigrants’ by India, currently lodged at 'holding facility' inside jail SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir: About 20 of 170 Rohingya Muslims...
Read more- 20/05/2021
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By AFP Bangladesh authorities on Thursday imposed a lockdown in five Rohingya refugee camps in the country's southeast after a spike in coronavirus cases in recent days, officials said. The...
Read more- 18/05/2021
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By Faruque Mohammed, UNHCR The film school Rohingya refugee Faruque Mohammed co-founded is now delivering COVID information to refugee settlements in Cox’s Bazar. Faruque Mohammed, 33, is a Rohingya refugee...
Read more- 17/05/2021
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By Kifayat Ali Shah, The Express Tribune Since NCOC inoculation policy is dependent of NICs, the marginalised migrants are vulnerable to the virus KARACHI: There is a tiny slum by the...
Read more- 08/08/2020
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By UNHCR For Salma, a community health volunteer and Rohingya refugee living in Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh, a typical day begins with morning meetings with Rohingya community leaders followed by her...
Read more- 03/08/2020
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By Hareem F. Abdullah & Olivia Enos, The National Interest Sanctions were a good first step toward levying consequences for the Burmese military’s egregious actions against the Rohingya, but the United...
Read more- 30/07/2020
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By UNHCR As the most vulnerable in Bangladesh face emergency on top of emergency, UNHCR continues to deliver aid and provide services in increasingly challenging conditions. At the forefront of...
Read more- 24/07/2020
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By Areez Tanbeen Rahman and Iffath Yeasmine in Kutupalong refugee settlement, Bangladesh, UNHCR Trained community health workers – all of them Rohingya refugees – refer suspected COVID-19 patients in the...
Read more- 22/07/2020
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By Nur Sadek, The Rohingya Post Rohingya is one of Myanmar's ethnic minorities who have been suffering for decades and called on the international community on so many times to...
Read more- 20/07/2020
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By Dr. Azeem Ibrahim, Arab News After weeks of drifting in rickety wooden boats in the choppy waters of the Andaman Sea, Bangladesh finally relented and rescued the almost 400...
Read more- 08/07/2020
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By Dr. Azeem Ibrahim, Arab News Many countries around the Bay of Bengal and Malacca Strait have been very gracious and generous to Rohingya refugees fleeing the genocide in Myanmar...
Read more- 29/06/2020
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By Inmanuel Chayan, Caritas Bangladesh communications officer based in Cox’s Bazar One of the key measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus pandemic is social distancing, yet the poorest...
Read more- 23/06/2020
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By Fortify Rights Refugees describe struggle to survive during pandemic (KUALA LUMPUR, June 23, 2020)—The Government of Malaysia should end arbitrary arrests and detention of refugees and migrants, said the...
Read more- 20/06/2020
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By Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes In May 2020, global media reported on the first cases of COVID-19 to emerge in the Kutupalong refugee camps near Cox Bazar, Bangladesh. The Kutupalong...
Read more- 19/06/2020
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Source WHO • A total of 1,519 COVID-19 positive cases have been reported in Cox’s Bazar district (including Rohingya camps) as of 14 June 2020 as per Civil Surgeon Office,...
Read more- 18/06/2020
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Submitted by Dr. Wakar Uddin, Director General Arakan Rohingya Union The Rohingya genocide and issues of violence against Rohingya in Arakan/Rakhine State, Burma/Myanmar brings new developments. The Republic of The...
Read more- 08/06/2020
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By Dave Grunebaum, VOA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av0G1bLJdQU KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA - Humanitarian aid groups operating in southern Bangladesh say if there’s a major outbreak of COVID-19 in the weeks or months...
Read more- 06/06/2020
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By Ralph Jennings, VOA TAIPEI, TAIWAN - Myanmar has sidelined an international court order to improve conditions for its long-embattled Rohingya minority, despite fears that the Southeast Asian government is...
Read more- 05/06/2020
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By Poppy McPherson and Ruma Paul, Reuters BANGKOK/DHAKA (Reuters) - Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh with symptoms of the novel coronavirus are not coming forward to get tested because they fear...
Read more- 27/05/2020
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By Riyaz ul Khaliq, Anadolu Agency Internet shutdowns in India, Pakistan, Kashmir, Myanmar, Bangladesh hinder fight against COVID-19, say rights groups ANKARA The World Health Organization (WHO) has been urged...
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