11.89 lakh Rohingyas now in BD: FM

dailyobserver
Published : Wednesday, 29 April, 2026
Diplomatic Correspond

Foreign Minister Dr Khalilur Rahman on Tuesday told Parliament that the number of Rohingyas displaced from Myanmar and currently sheltered in Bangladesh stands at some 11.89 lakh.

"According to the UNHCR report dated April 13, 2026, the current number of Rohingya community people displaced from Myanmar, a country bordering Bangladesh, is 11,89,213 (in Bangladesh)," he said, while replying to a starred question from treasury bench member Emran Ahmed Chowdhury (Sylhet-6).

The ICJ and the Limits of International Justice For the Rohingya

THE DIPOMAT
By Mohammed Hamim
May 05, 2026

The Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands, the seat of the International Court of Justice. Credit: Depositphotos

International courts can apportion legal responsibility, but cannot guarantee justice, safety, or safe return to Myanmar for more than 1 million Rohingya refugees.

 

The international legal process is moving forward and the Rohingya are one step closer to long-sought justice, but the reality is very different. While the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is deliberating its final judgement in the genocide case against Myanmar, the Rohingya refugees are still living in camps in Bangladesh. There is still no clear path for a safe and dignified return to Myanmar with the restoration of fundamental human rights, justice, and security.

He Was Among Dozens Crammed Into a Trawler’s Cargo Hold. Then the Boat Capsized.

The New York Times
By Verena Hölzl
Reporting from Bangkok
Published April 16, 2026Updated April 19, 2026

 Hundreds of migrants from Bangladesh, including Rohingya refugees, are feared dead after a boat to Malaysia overturned.

A Rohingya survivor being carried on a bamboo stretcher to a hospital at a refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, after being rescued last week from a capsized boat.Credit...Suzauddin Rubel/Associated Press

For two days and one night the teenager drifted in the open sea, holding on to a piece of wood. He had been on a boat that was supposed to take him to a better life. But it capsized in the middle of the Andaman Sea last week.

My Rohingya People Are Running Out of Time

The New York Times
Jan. 22, 2026
By Lucky Karim

Credit...Adam Ferguson for The New York Times

Ms. Karim, a Rohingya rights advocate, was forced to flee her home in Myanmar’s Rakhine state as a teenager in 2017.

Five Years After Myanmar Coup, ‘Even Hope Has Become a Risk’

The New York Times 
Feb. 9, 2026 

The downtown of Yangon, Myanmar’s largest city. Urban areas in the country have been plagued by issues like soaring inflation, high unemployment and shortages of goods.     Photographs by Lauren DeCicca

The country’s cities have been spared the violence of a hard-fought civil war. But as the economy has hollowed out, many urbanites have become desperate.

The downtown of Yangon, Myanmar’s largest city. Urban areas in the country have been plagued by issues like soaring inflation, high unemployment and shortages of goods.Credit...

Richard C. Paddock was granted a journalist visa to enter Myanmar for the first time in more than seven years and spent a week traveling to Yangon, Mandalay and Bagan for this article. 

A collective failure

Dhaka Tribune
Ahtaram Shin
Maung Solaiman Shah
Publish : 27 Nov 2025,

The Rohingya crisis is not a regional burden but a test of global conscience 

 

The face of the Andaman Sea once again turned into a graveyard for the Rohingya. Earlier this month, a boat carrying Rohingya refugees, desperate families fleeing ongoing persecution and violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, sank near the Thai-Malaysian border, with hundreds still missing.

U.N. Rohingya Conference Must Spark Concrete Action

ROBERT KENNEDY HUMANRIGHT
Alexis Capati
Catherine Cooper
October 3, 2025

“You already have the evidence. You already have the power. What is missing is the political will.” Rohingya Activist Wai Wai Nu at the U.N. High-level Conference on Tuesday, September 30, 2025. 

 

As the Rohingya community faces compounding crises, this week’s U.N. High-level Conference on the Situation of Rohingya Muslims and Other Minorities in Myanmar was held at a critical moment. The Rohingya, who are one of the most persecuted communities in the world, face existential threats, including international crimes by the Myanmar military and the Arakan Army, an ethnic armed group. Outside of Myanmar, the Rohingya who live in refugee camps in Bangladesh face drastic cuts to essential aid.

The Rohingya are being forgotten at the UN

ARAB NEWS
Dr. Azeem Ibrahim
October 03, 20

The Rohingya are at risk of becoming a permanently forgotten people (File/AFP)

 

 The annual UN General Assembly has once again come and gone. World leaders delivered lofty speeches about war, climate change, and human rights. Yet among the most acute humanitarian tragedies of our time, the plight of the Rohingya, there was little more than symbolic mention. The genocide that forced nearly a million Rohingya into Bangladesh, and the continued persecution of those still in Myanmar, risks being relegated to the margins of global concern.

High-Level Conference Highlights Significant Challenges Facing Resolution of Rohingya Refugee Crisis

THE | DIPLOMAT
By Sebastian Strangio
October 02, 2025

 A safe and voluntary repatriation of refugees to Rakhine State remains unlikely for the foreseeable future. Is it time for a new approach?

Rohingya rights advocate Wai Wai Nu addresses the High-Level Conference on the Situation of Rohingya Muslims and Other Minorities at the U.N. General Assembly in New York, Sept. 30, 2025. Credit: X/Wai Wai Nu

On Tuesday, top U.N. and government officials warned of the critical situation facing Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar, due to funding shortfalls and the unstable political conditions inside Myanmar.

The High-Level Conference on the Situation of Rohingya Muslims and Other Minorities in Myanmar was convened at the United Nations General Assembly in New York to mobilize global support for Rohingya refugees and formulate a coordinated plan for the resolution of their return to Myanmar’s Rakhine State.

Rohingya Muslims plead for help at the UN to stop the killings in Myanmar

NEWS NATION
EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press 
Updated: Oct 1, 2025  

FILE – Rohingya refugees wait for food to be distributed during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan at their camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, March 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Shafiqur Rahman, File)

 

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Rohingya Muslims pleaded with the international community at the first United Nations high-level meeting on the plight of the ethnic minority to prevent the mass killings taking place in Myanmar and to help those in the persecuted group lead normal lives.

“This is a historic occasion for Myanmar, but this is long overdue,” Wai Wai Nu, the Rohingya founder and executive director of the Women’s Peace Network-Myanmar, told ministers and ambassadors from many of the U.N.’s 193-member nations in the General Assembly Hall.

“Night is dark for us”: Rohingya refugees need protection before repatriation

MNESTY INTERNATIONAL
30 September 2025

By Joe Freeman, Myanmar Researcher at Amnesty International, and Carolyn Nash, Asia Advocacy Director at Amnesty International USA

This story was originally published by The New Humanitarian

Thirteen-year-old Nasima is scared of the dark.

But the Rohingya girl’s fears are not imaginary.

For her, the monsters are real: criminal gangs that stalk her refugee camp at night.

“After 7pm, we turn off the light in fear of the robber,” she said. “At nighttime, we cannot go out, even to go to the toilet.”

“Night is dark for us.”

Missing From a U.N. Meeting on Helping Refugees? The Refugees.

The NewYork Times
By Verena Hölzl
Sept. 29, 2025,

World leaders will discuss how to assist the Rohingya in the world’s largest refugee settlement. But no one living there is attending the conference at the United Nations.

Rohingya refugees at a camp near Amtoli, Bangladesh, in 2017.Credit...Adam Dean for The New York Times

They live in the world’s largest collection of refugee camps, which they are rarely allowed to leave. Their shops there have been bulldozed and their schools closed. In their homeland, warring factions seem to agree only on a shared contempt for the stateless exiles.

The Rohingya know where home is

netranews
Greg Constantine, Mashruk Ahmad
September 23rd 2025 

A visual storyteller built a project which archives shreds of memory and identity of the Rohingya in one common space from across the world and generations; and tells the story about the life of a community rather than the destruction of it. 

Taza Mulluk was born in 1941. In 1961, he became a government employee at Burma Communication Service (BCS). He then became a postman. He retired as a postman and would receive a government pension. Included are ID cards from his employment at BCS and Burma Postal Service, his pension book and NRC card, a list of all the postmen in Arakan and a photo of Taza Mulluk retired with two other colleagues from the postal service. © Greg Constantine / Ek Khaale

Every month, Mashruk Ahmed will curate an instalment of a photo-story series that questions established power discourse, featuring photographers who explore gaps, absences, and silences in Bangladesh’s socio-political records.

CA off to New York to join UNGA

BSS NEWS

Date : 22 Sep 2025,

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus and his entourage departed Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport for New York in the early hours of today to attend the 80th session of the UNGA. Photo: CA GoB Facebook

DHAKA, Sept 22, 2025 (BSS) - Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus left here for New York in the early hours of today to attend the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).

Because no one asked: Archiving the Rohingya past

The Daily Star
By Naseef Faruque Amin
Sat Sep 6, 2025 

Visitors at Ek Khaale: Once Upon a Time, curated by Greg Constantine and organised by BRAC University’s Centre for Peace and Justice, engage with archival photographs that seek to reclaim the memory and dignity of the stateless Rohingyas. Courtesy: Greg Constantine 

It began with a question, the kind of question that arrives quietly, almost like a sigh. Greg Constantine, an American photojournalist and documentarian who has spent nearly two decades chronicling the plight of the Rohingya, sat inside a bamboo hut in Cox's Bazar, leaning towards the elderly men who were holding plastic bags filled with their pasts—brittle documents, photographs yellowed into sepia, certificates folded and refolded until the creases seemed older than the paper itself. He asked them, almost casually: Why have you never shown these to anyone else?

ASEAN must act now to ease Rohingya crisis

daily observer 
Saturday, 6 September, 2025 

The Asian Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) has once again sounded the alarm on the escalating crisis facing Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.

At a press briefing held at the Dhaka Reporters Unity, following a meeting with Nobel laureate Dr. Muhammad Yunus, APHR called on ASEAN to immediately establish a dedicated humanitarian fund to address the dire needs of over 1.3 million refugees stranded in Cox's Bazar.

UN Member States urged to pursue accountability for Rohingya genocide

Dhaka Tribune
UNB
Publish : 27 Aug 2025,

UNGA participants expected to discuss responses to ongoing abuses.

Rohingya refugees hold placards and flags to demand safe return to Myanmar as they mark the eighth anniversary of their mass exodus at their refugee camp at Kutupalong in Coxs Bazar district, Bangladesh on Aug 25, 2025. Photo: UNB

Fortify Rights and 57 other groups in a joint statement on Wednesday said United Nations member states must pursue accountability for genocide and other atrocities committed against ethnic Rohingya civilians in Rakhine State, Myanmar.

Stuck in grim camps, Rohingya hope Bangladesh can tackle crisis

prothomalo
AFP Dhaka
Published: 27 Aug 2025

Bangladesh is this week holding talks aimed at addressing the plight of Rohingya refugees, even as fresh arrivals cross over from war-ravaged Myanmar and shrinking aid flows deepen the crisis. 

An aerial view shows Rohingya refugees’ Balukhali camp in Ukhia on 26 August 2025. “Bangladesh now hosts 1.3 million forcibly displaced Rohingya from Myanmar,” Yunus told the aid conference in Cox’s Bazar, calling it the “largest refugee camp in the world”AFP

The rain was relentless the night Mohammad Kaisar fled for his life from his home in Myanmar’s Maungdaw township.

Myanmar: Situation Update with Paul Greening

THE I DIPLOMAT

By Luke Hunt
August 26, 2025

The junta plans its election while turmoil engulfs Thai politics. 

Credit: Luke Hunt

The junta in war-torn Myanmar has called elections with voting expected to begin on December 28 and continue well into January, which military chief Min Aung Hlaing hopes will legitimize his rule that began with a coup in early 2021.

Why the 2025 UN Conference Must Deliver on the Rohingya Crisis

THE | DIPLOMAT 
By Zulficar Niaz Tushar
July 02, 2025

Seven years on, the refugee camps are still full. Rohingya futures are still frozen. And the promises from the international community remain, for the most part, unfulfilled.

 

This September, the United Nations will host a long-awaited High-Level Conference on the Situation of Rohingya Muslims and Other Minorities in Myanmar. Set to take place in New York, it’s a moment that has been years in the making — proposed by Bangladesh’s chief adviser, Professor Muhammad Yunus, during the 79th U.N. General Assembly and now backed by 106 countries across continents. But behind the diplomacy and formality lies something far more urgent: the fate of over a million people who have been living in limbo for far too long.