Refugees
- 24/04/2017
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By Donita Jose, The News Minute For the Rohingyas, who often face hostility from Indian neighbours, football seems one way to turn the tension into camaraderie. “Did you see Barcelona...
Read more- 23/04/2017
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By ASHLEY WESTERMAN, NPR Can all hope be lost? I used to think not. I used to think that no matter how tough life gets for people, they always have hope...
Read more- 19/04/2017
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By Javaid Iqbal Bhat, Greater Kashmir We mirror each other in our double standards The fate of the Rohingya Muslims in the winter capital of Jammu and Kashmir hangs in the...
Read more- 19/04/2017
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By Rebecca Wright, CNN (CNN) They say they ran from murder and persecution. They've ended up in mud huts on the Bay of Bengal. And with the torrential rains of the...
Read more- 18/04/2017
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By John Owens, VOA News KUTAPALONG CAMP, BANGLADESH — A spate of disappearances among the children of displaced Rohingya in Bangladesh is raising fears the children have been abducted into the region’s...
Read more- 16/04/2017
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By Andrew Amsan, Indian Express For a while, they can forget home. They call themselves the Rohingya Shining Stars. On most nights, after they are done with their daily jobs as...
Read more- 28/03/2017
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By Ashraful Azad, The Conversation Hundreds of hard-line Buddhist monks in Myanmar protested on March 19 against a proposal to grant citizenship to the country’s persecuted Muslim minority, the Rohingya who...
Read more- 23/03/2017
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By Steve Shaw, New Internationalist Magazine Since October it is estimated that hundreds of Muslim Rohingya people have been killed in Burma, and tens of thousands have been displaced. Villages...
Read more- 22/03/2017
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By Nita Bhalla, Reuters NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Tens of thousands of Muslims who have fled violence in northern Myanmar are living in "extremely poor" conditions in neighbouring Bangladesh...
Read more- 22/03/2017
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By Daily Sabah Tens of thousands of Muslims who have fled violence in northern Myanmar are living in "extremely poor" conditions in neighboring Bangladesh and need better shelter as the...
Read more- 21/03/2017
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By Vivian Tan, UNHCR A small proportion who fled violence decades ago are considered refugees, while many recent arrivals remain undocumented and miss out on vital aid. UKHIYA, Bangladesh -...
Read more- 16/03/2017
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By Naushad Ali Husein, Al Jazeera In cramped and unhygienic camps thousands of refugees face disease, hunger and uncertainty about the future. Balukhali, Bangladesh - Hafiz Shafiq's infant son has been...
Read more- 24/02/2017
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By Debi Edward, iTV An estimated 70,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled persecution from Myanmar (also known as Burma) to Bangladesh since October last year, joining a population of around 400,000...
Read more- 23/02/2017
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By Aman Ullah Bangladesh Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali stressed the need for a peaceful resolution of the longstanding issue of Rohingya influx from Myanmar to Bangladesh while he made...
Read more- 21/12/2016
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By Tama Salim, The Jakarta Post Foreign Minister Retno LP Marsudi concluded on Tuesday her visit to Bangladesh to seek lasting solutions for the plight of the Muslim Rohingya minority in...
Read more- 20/12/2016
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By The Stateless Rohingya The visit comes a day after meeting with Aung San Suu Kyi in Yangon and demolitions of new Rohingya refugees’ huts in Cox’s Bazar Cox’s Bazar...
Read more- 02/10/2016
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By Shahamat Hussain, YouthKiAwaaz It has been almost three years since the Myanmarese settlement took refuge in Hyderabad. They are struggling hard to get jobs, learn the language and to even get...
Read more- 30/08/2016
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By Beh Lih Yi, Reuters There are more than 150,000 refugees and asylum seekers in Malaysia - 90 percent of them are from Myanmar KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 30 (Thomson Reuters...
Read more- 26/07/2016
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By Bernama KUALA LUMPUR: The Government has been urged by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to give work passes to 153,004 refugees and asylum seekers in Malaysia....
Read more- 06/07/2016
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By Bernama The government should consider allowing the Rohingya refugees in the country to work in the plantation and services sectors that are currently facing a shortage of workers, an academician...
Read more- 05/07/2016
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By Chris Buckley, New York Times For Hasinah Izhar, it seems a lifetime since she scrambled onto a boat on a muddy shore of Myanmar, clutching three of her children,...
Read more- 05/07/2016
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By Zeyad Masroor Khan, Reuters It’s a grey sunset on a hot and humid evening in the smoggy outskirts of India’s capital. In a barren wasteland between New Delhi and...
Read more- 05/07/2016
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By Salil Tripathi, Himal South Asian The Rohingya struggle to find a place for themselves inside and outside Myanmar. The rains are here, and the seas are rough, so the...
Read more- 04/07/2016
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By Prof. V. Suryanarayan, Eurasiareview Rohingyas are one of the most persecuted and unwanted people in the world today. Thousands of them were forced to flee from their country: they have...
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