Rohingya Crisis: S Korea provides $ 1.5 million to UNHCR

UNB

UNB News
Dhaka
Publish- November 15, 2020

File Photo

South Korea has provided US$ 1.5 million to the UNHCR Bangladesh Office to support its activities in Cox’s Bazar under the 2020 Joint Response Plan(JRP) for the Rohingya humanitarian crisis.

Since the outbreak of the Rohingya crisis in 2017, the South Korean government has been closely working with the international community to resolve the refugee crisis, said the Korean Embassy in Dhaka on Sunday.

Saudi Arabia, US, sign aid deal for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh

ZAWYA
saudi arabia
By Staff Writer, Saudi Gazette
13 November, 2020

As part of the agreement, multi-use housing units worth $2mln will be made to rehabilitate the refugees

Saudi Gazette report

RIYADH — Saudi Arabia signed virtually on Thursday an agreement with the United States to implement a multi-sector program to support Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh’s Cox's Bazar district, Saudi Press Agency reported.

USAID, KSRelief to co-fund WFP project in Cox’s Bazar

Dhaka Tribune  

UNB
November 14th, 2020

File photo of a Rohingya camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh Syed Zakir Hossain/Dhaka Tribune

The fund will be used to rehabilitate cyclone shelters and reduce the risk of disasters in Cox’s Bazar

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Saudi Arabia's King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSRelief) will provide $1 million each to a program managed by the World Food Programme (WFP) to rehabilitate cyclone shelters and reduce the risk of disasters in Cox’s Bazar.

မြန်မာ့ဒီမိုကရေစီရေး သြစတြေးလျ ဆက်လက်ထောက်ခံ သွားမည်

VOA
ဗွီအိုအေ (မြန်မာပိုင်း)
15 နိုဝင်ဘာ၊ 2020 

သြစတြေးလျ နိုင်ငံခြားရေးဝန်ကြီး Marise Payne. (ဇူလိုင် ၂၈၊ ၂၀၂၀)

မြန်မာနိုင်ငံရဲ့ ငြိမ်းချမ်းတဲ့ ရွေးကောက်ပွဲဟာဆိုရင် နိုင်ငံရဲ့ ဒီမိုကရေစီ အသွင်ကူးပြောင်းမှုမှာ အရေးကြီးတဲ့ မှတ်တိုင်တခု ဖြစ်ပါတယ်လို့ သြစတြေးလျ နိုင်ငံခြားရေးဝန်ကြီး Marise Payne က ကြေညာချက် ထုတ်ပါ တယ်။

ရွေးကောက်ပွဲ အောင်မြင်ခြင်းနှင့် NLD အနိုင်ရသည့်အ ပေါ် ပြည်ပနိုင်ငံအကြီးအကဲများနှင့် သံတမန်များက ဝမ်းမြောက် ဂုဏ်ယူကြောင်း ပြော

မဇ္ဈိမ 
14 November 2020 

ဓာတ်ပုံ - သက်ကို/မဇ္ဈိမ

အထွေထွေ ရွေးကောက်ပွဲ အောင်မြင်စွာ ကျင်းပနိုင်ခဲ့ခြင်းနှင့် အမျိုးသားဒီမိုကရေစီ အဖွဲ့ချုပ် (NLD) က အနိုင်ရသည့်အပေါ် ပြည်ပနိုင်ငံအကြီးအကဲများနှင့် သံရုံးများက ဝမ်းမြောက်ကြောင်းနှင့် ဂုဏ်ယူကြောင်း သဝဏ်လွှာများ ပေးပို့ခဲ့ကြသည်။

Macron’s misreading of an Islamic “crisis”

GLOBAL COMMENT

Shaher Tabbaa
Around the Globe Commentary Politics Religion
November 12, 2020

On 2 October, President Macron acknowledged in a speech that France had failed its immigrant communities – immigrants, with lingering animosities, from French colonies where France committed untold atrocities, and with poor living conditions – creating “our own separatism” with ghettos of “misery and hardship” where people were lumped together according to their origins and social background. ‘Districts were created where the promise of the Republic has no longer been kept, and where messages of radicalism found resonance with some inhabitants’.

He also added that Islam is a religion which is experiencing a crisis today, all over the world, citing multiple reasons.

He inadvertently neglected to mention that evil resides in the heart of deviants that would do wrong with little encouragement from a variety of influences: religious hyperbole, greed, racism, ethnicity, vengeance, or political dogma. That those deviants are in the minority, and represent only themselves.

Myanmar Went To the Polls for the Second Time Since the End of Military Rule but the Election Was Not Free or Fair

TIMES

By Wai Wai Nu

November 12, 2020 

Officials of the Union Election Commission count votes during the multi-party general elections at a polling station in Yangon, Myanmar, Nov. 8, 2020.
U Aung—Xinhua via Getty

 

The Rohingya Muslim minority, to which I belong, was again disenfranchised during Myanmar’s election on Nov. 8. My community, which has faced violence and discrimination, is being even further erased from our country. Many ethnic Rakhine, Shan, Kachin, and Karen were also not able to vote. An election that excludes entire communities because of their identity cannot be considered credible, free, nor fair.

Saudi Arabia, US sign Rohingya aid deal

ARAB NEWS

SPA

13 November 2020 

Rohingya Muslim refugees children queue for aid suplies at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox's Bazar on Dec. 4, 2017. (AFP/File)

 

• The agreement aims to rehabilitate housing with a total value of $2 million
• The program will target 87,165 people for urgent assistance

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia signed virtually on Thursday an agreement with the US to implement a multi-sector refugee support program in Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh.

The agreement aims to rehabilitate housing with a total value of $2 million, and will be managed by the World Food Program (WFP).

War, not politics: Troubled election deepens tension in Myanmar's Rakhine

REUTERS
By Shoon Naing

 

YANGON (Reuters) - Yarzar Tun’s whole family backed Myanmar’s Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi in the landslide 2015 election that swept her to power. As fighting this year in western Rakhine state crept closer to his home, he decided he would not vote for her again. 

People wearing protective gear line up to vote at a polling station during the general election in Taungup, Rakhine State, Myanmar, November 8, 2020. ÊREUTERS/Stringer

Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) has claimed another commanding win in a parliamentary election on Sunday, the second since the end of half a century of military rule. But in Rakhine the NLD was rejected by voters such as Yarzar Tun and his family, who backed an ethnic nationalist party instead.

Editorial: Time for Aung San Suu Kyi to start acting like the Nobel winner she is

Los Angeles Times

Opinion 
The Times Editorial Board
Nov. 11, 2020

 

Myanmar’s State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi in 2017.

(Aung Shine Oo / Associated Press)

 

While much of the world has been fixated on the electoral drama in the U.S., another fraught election took place this past weekend in a country racked by violence and human rights abuses.

For only the second time since it transitioned from a military dictatorship into a fledgling democracy in 2015, voters in the South Asian country of Myanmar went to the polls to elect members of its parliament. The ruling National League of Democracy, the party of Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Sui Kyi, has reportedly won in a bigger landslide than it did five years ago. Just as in the U.S., masses of voters turned out, enduring long lines despite a surge of coronavirus cases.

Joint statement from INGO's: ASEAN must prevent another “Rohingya boat crisis”

NORWEGIAN REFUGEES COUNCIL
Published 11. Nov 2020

 

Southeast Asian leaders must do everything they can to protect refugees and prevent a repeat of this year’s “boat crisis” when some 200 refugees lost their lives at sea, 16 humanitarian agencies said today ahead of the 37th ASEAN Summit.

Signatores on the statement are ActionAid, CARE, International Rescue Committee, Lutheran World Federation, Médecins du Monde France, Médecins du Monde Japan, Médecins du Monde Switzerland, MOAS, NONGOR, Norwegian Refugee Council, Oxfam, People in Need Myanmar, Plan International, Save the Children, Solidarités International, World Vision International.

 

Joint Multi-Sector Needs Assessment (J-MSNA): Bangladesh Rohingya Refugees - July - August 2020

ISCG
12 Nov 2020

Link : Here

Human rights group to govt: Facilitate a visit to Bhasan Char

Dhaka Tribune 

Tribune Desk
November 12th, 2020

File photo: Forcibly displaced Rohingya refugees playing football at a refugee camp in Bhashan Char ISPR

 

The government is moving forward with plans to relocate up to 100,000 Rohingya from Cox’s Bazar district to Bhasan Char

Five human rights organization have requested the government of Bangladesh to facilitate and provide access to Bhasan Char, including unfettered access to meet with Rohingyas.

The five organizations are Amnesty International, Refugees International, Robert F Kennedy Human Rights, Fortify Rights, and ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR).

Japan’s Kirin Suspends Payments to Myanmar Military Firm

THE I DIPLOMAT

By Sebastian Strangio

November 12, 2020

The Japanese beverages firm Kirin has suspended dividend payments to a tentacular Myanmar business conglomerate linked to the country’s military, the company announced this week. In a statement on November 11, Kirin Holdings Company, announced that it had suspended all dividend payments from two Myanmar beer ventures to Kirin and the Myanmar Economic Holdings Ltd (MEHL).

Myanmar: Kirin suspends payments to military company

Amnesty International 

 11 November 2020
Myanmar
Business and Human Rights

© AFP/Getty Images
 

The Japanese brewing company Kirin today announced that it has suspended all dividend payments to Myanmar Economic Holdings Limited (MEHL), Kirin’s business partner in two joint ventures in Myanmar. It follows research by Amnesty International which exposed how profits from Myanmar Brewery Limited and Mandalay Brewery Limited, jointly owned by Kirin and MEHL, were provided to MEHL, whose shareholders include military units responsible for crimes under international law.

Montse Ferrer, Researcher on Business and Human Rights at Amnesty International, said:

Myanmar Election Delivers Another Decisive Win for Aung San Suu Kyi

The New York Times 

By Hannah Beech and Saw Nang

Nov. 11, 2020

The civilian leader’s reputation overseas has been stained by her defense of a military accused of genocide. But in voting on Sunday, her party easily secured a parliamentary majority.

Supporters of the National League for Democracy in Yangon, Myanmar, on Monday with portraits of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, whom many in the country still regard as a bulwark against military rule.Credit...Ye Aung Thu/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

 

The political party led by Myanmar’s civilian leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, is poised to stay in power after winning what is only the second truly contested election the country has held in decades, though one in which many voters from ethnic minority groups were prevented from casting their ballots.

Religious persecution increasing, Pew Research Center report finds

The Washington Times 

By Christopher Vondracek

The Washington Times
Wednesday, November 11, 2020 

A rosary, scapular and Bible rest on a coffee table in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., on Thursday, Sept. 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E) ** FILE ** more >

Governments have been cracking down on religious expression more than any other time in recent memory, says a new report on global religious persecution.

The Pew Research Center’s tracking of government restrictions on religion noted a 50% increase in 2018 since the survey’s inauguration in 2007, according to the report published Tuesday.

မြန်မာရွေးကောက်ပွဲရလဒ် ပြင်သစ်ကြိုဆို

 VOA

ဗွီအိုအေ (မြန်မာပိုင်း)
၂၀၂၀ မြန်မာ့ရွေးကောက်ပွဲ
13 နိုဝင်ဘာ၊ 2020

ရန်ကုန်မြို့ မဲရုံတခုတွင် ဆန္ဒမဲများရေတွက်နေသည့် ကော်မရှင်အဖွဲ့ဝင်များ။ နိုဝင်ဘာ ၈၊ ၂၀၂၀။ 

မြန်မာနိုင်ငံမှာ ဒီမိုကရေစီ နည်းလမ်းနဲ့ တင်မြှောက်ခံရတဲ့ အရပ်သား အစိုးရတစ်ခုရဲ့ လက်အောက် မှာနှစ် ပေါင်း ၆၀ အတွင်း ပထမဆုံးအကြိမ် အထွေထွေ ရွေးကောက်ပွဲတစ်ရပ် ကျင်းပနိုင်ခဲ့တာက တိုင်းပြည်အတွင်း ဒီမိုကရေစီ လူ့ဘောင် တည်ဆောက်ရေးမှာ အရေးပါတဲ့ ခြေလှမ်းတစ်ရပ်ဖြစ်တယ်လို့ ပြင်သစ်နိုင်ငံက ပြောပါ တယ်။

DVB Debate:"ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္ဒုကၡသည္ေတြျပန္လည္ ေခၚယူေရးမူဝါဒေအာင္ျမင္မလား?"(Part A,B,C )

DVB Debate
Date :Nov 8, 2020 

DVB Debate:"ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္ဒုကၡသည္ေတြျပန္လည္ေခၚယူေရးမူဝါဒေအာင္ျမင္မလား?"(Part A)

 

 

 DVB Debate:"ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္ဒုကၡသည္ေတြျပန္လည္ေခၚယူေရးမူဝါဒေအာင္ျမင္မလား?"(Part B)  

 

 DVB Debate:"ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္ဒုကၡသည္ေတြျပန္လည္ေခၚယူေရးမူဝါဒေအာင္ျမင္မလား?"(Part C) Link :Here

Korea gives $1 million to prevent gender-based violence in Cox’s Bazar

The Daily Star

Star Online Report
November 10, 2020 

Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar. Photo: Star/ Anisur Rahman

Korea has provided $1 million to Unicef Bangladesh this year for activities to help prevent gender-based violence particularly in Cox's Bazar.

This assistance will help protect women, adolescents, and girls in the Rohingya refugee camp and the host community from gender-based violence and its consequences, especially amid the increasing gender-based violence cases in the prolonged Covid-19 pandemic, Korean embassy in Dhaka said in a statement today.