Bangladesh: Bringing sanitation to largest Rohingya refugee camp

Aljazeera
08-05-2019

Changing lives, the new sewage treatment plant is making a difference for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.

The largest sewage treatment facility ever constructed at a refugee settlement is providing a safer and cleaner environment for displaced Rohingya.

Close to a million of them fled violence in Myanmar in 2017 and are now living in camps in Bangladesh.

And a lack of sanitation has been a major concern.

Al Jazeera's Sara Khairat reports.

Link :https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/05/bangladesh-bringing-sanitation-largest-rohingya-refugee-camp-190508114804533.html

Gangs Taking Control of Bangladesh Rohingya Camps, Report Warns

THE GLOBE POST
by Staff Writer

April 25, 2019

  Some 700,000 Rohingya have fled over the border to Bangladesh since August. Photo: AFP

Criminal gangs and militants are increasing their grip on Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh, committing killings and abductions with “impunity,” International Crisis Group said in a new report Thursday.

About 740,000 Rohingya fled Myanmar for Bangladesh after a brutal military crackdown in August 2017, joining huge numbers already confined to the camps after earlier violence across the border.

Rohingya refugee youth celebrate storytelling success

The Daily Star
Monday, "April 22, 2019"
Star Online Report

30 Rohingya refugees have graduated from the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Storytellers programme in a ceremony featuring special guest Raba Khan.

WFP provides food assistance to almost 900,000 Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar. For the first time, WFP, with support from BRAC, has trained some of these men and women in digital storytelling so that they can share their stories with the world, according to a press release from WFP. 

‘Existence of Rohingya at risk if children are not educated’

The Daily Star  
Friday, "April 12, 2019"

Former prime minister of Denmark Helle Thorning-Schmidt has expressed her concern that a whole generation of Rohingyas could be lost if the absence of Rohingya refugee children in the education system is continued.

She made the remarks while visiting the Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar on April 6 and 7, a press release of Save the Children said today.

Bangladesh police stop 115 Rohingya refugees seeking to reach Malaysia

Prothum Alo------ 
AFP |
Publication date 08 April 2019 |

Bangladesh police have prevented 115 Rohingya refugees from being smuggled to Malaysia in rickety fishing boats, officials said on Saturday, but no suspected traffickers were detained.

The group from the Kutupalong camp near Bangladesh’s border with Myanmar – the biggest refugee settlement in the world – were stopped as they headed to boats in the Bay of Bengal.

British envoy Dickson visits Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar

theindepedent
2 April, 2019 
Independent Online Desk  

British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Robert Chatterton Dickson recently visited the Rohingya Camps in Cox’s Bazar to witness how the UKAid is helping provide emergency food, safe water and hygiene for the Rohingya refugees, according to a post shared by British High Commission in Dhaka on its official Facebook page on Tuesday.

Conditions in Rohingya camps better, but still far from ideal

Dhaka Tribune
Humayun Kabir Bhuiyan
Published at April 1st, 2019

A market inside Rohingya refugee camp at Ukhiya in Cox's Bazar Dhaka Tribune

 

 

Rohingyas happy in camps as situation in Rakhine is much worse

The conditions of the Rohingya settlements in Cox’s Bazar’s Ukhiya and Teknaf upazilas have improved significantly from what it was during the arrival of the refugees 19 months ago.

However, the camps are still far from ideal.

Crimes in the Rohingya camps

The Daily Star
Sunday, "March 31, 2019"

Security needs to be beefed up

PHOTO: REUTERS

THE recent discoveries by police of the bullet-hit body of a 35-year-old Rohingya man near Noyapara Rohingya refugee camp in Teknaf and the body of an 18-year-old Rohingya woman recovered from Balukhali refugee camp in Ukhiya are chilling reminders of deteriorating law and order in the Rohingya refugee camps. On Wednesday, two Rohingya men, both allegedly drug traders, were killed in “shootouts” with the police in Cox's Bazar. Lack of security has become a major concern in the densely populated Rohingya camps where refugees are either becoming the victims or the perpetrators.

Wedding in Rohingya Refugee Camp

REUTERS
Cox's Bazar

The bride's hands are covered with decorative patterns inked in henna, the groom is perfumed and the guests feast and dance the night away in a colourful tent.

In most ways, the happiest day of Shofika Begum and Saddam Hussein's lives mirrors that of couples getting married the world over.

2 people from Rohingya community found dead

The Daily Star

Tuesday, "March 26, 2019"
Another hit by bullet

Two people from the Rohingya community including a suspected robber were found dead in different areas of Cox’s Bazar in the early hours today.

In Teknaf upazila, police recovered the bullet-hit body of Mohammad Abu Sayed Prokash, 35, locally known as Dakat Sadek, from near Noyapara Rohingya refugee camp, our Cox’s Bazar staff correspondent reports quoting sub-inspector of Noyapara Refugee camp police outpost Abdus Salam.

What is behind the rising chaos in Rohingya camps?

DhakaTribune

Abdul Aziz, Cox’s Bazar
Published at March 24th, 2019

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

The current situation is leaving the host community more frustrated than ever in Cox’s Bazar

Criminal activities, attempts to establish dominance, and internal conflicts have become the major reasons behind the recent chaos in the Rohingya camps, which currently shelter more than 1.1 million refugees in Cox’s Bazar.

Rohingya divided over relocation as awareness campaign begins

ARAB NEWS
BY SHEHAB SUMON
March 18, 2019

Rohingya refugee children play on a swing at a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, March 7, 2019. (REUTERS)

Camp authorities have been meeting Rohingya community leaders and imams so they can motivate other refugees to move

 

DHAKA: Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are divided over an island that will become their new home, as government officials try to persuade them to relocate voluntarily.

Police attacked amid Rohingya infighting, 10 held

DhakaTribune 
Abdul Aziz, Cox’s Bazar
Published at March 17th, 2019

File photo of Kutupalong Rohingya refugee camp in Ukhiya, Cox's Bazar Syed Zakir Hossain/Dhaka Tribune

Camp in-charge and police were attacked while trying to break up the fight

Two rival groups of Rohingya refugees clashed in the Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhiya, Cox’s Bazar.

Dhaka, Cox’s Bazar police alerted after New Zealand attack

NEWAGE

Muktadir Rashid | Published: Mar 16,2019


The police on Friday alerted their units in Cox’s Bazar and tightened checkpoints in the capital’s Gulshan and Baridhara diplomatic areas after the extremist attack in mosques in New Zealand that left at least 49 people, including three Bangladeshis, killed.

The police officials said that they always kept their force on alert but additional precaution was prescribed as soon as the shooting incident in mosques was reported in the media.

Razia Sultana: Rohingya have no future in Bangladesh camps

DhakaTribune
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Published at 10:47 am March 14th, 2019

 

Rohingya refugees gather at a market inside a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, March 7, 2019 Reuters

Rohingya lawyer Razia Sultana said there was a lack of hope among the refugees

There is no future for the 900,000 Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh, a leading campaigner said on Wednesday, likening the camps to zoos and calling for a proper repatriation strategy.

Rohingya have no future in Bangladesh camps: campaigner

REUTERS

By Naimul Karim

DHAKA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - There is no future for the 900,000 Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh, a leading campaigner said on Wednesday, likening the camps to zoos and calling for a proper repatriation strategy.

Rohingya lawyer Razia Sultana said there was a lack of hope among the refugees from the mainly Muslim minority, who fled a brutal military crackdown in Myanmar launched in response to militant attacks in August 2017.

[INTERVIEW] 'Illusion of stability' hides truth about Rohingya camp

THE KOREA TIMES

By Ko Dong-hwan

Updated : 2019-03-12 

IOM Bangladesh's Giorgi Gigauri reveals the reality of the Rohingya camp at Cox's Bazar and why he visited Seoul

When the International Organization for Migration head of the mega-scale refugee camp for Rohingya people at Cox's Bazar visited Seoul late February, he wanted the Korean government and local donors to the agency to understand a truth undermined by many ― that people confuse the reality with "illusion of stability" when seeing the camp.

With entry to Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar closed for a day, time to explore life and organizations nearby

JEWIS WORLD WATCH

WALK TO END GENOCIDE

Ann Strimov Durbin

Ann Strimov Durbin is a human rights attorney and the Director of Advocacy and Grantmaking at Jewish World Watch.

Students pose with JWW Advocacy and Grantmaking Director Ann Strimov Durbin at a school in Bangladesh.

After an auspicious first day in the camps — in the sense that we got in and moved freely without incident — the second day brought unexpected challenges. I woke up to find out that street protests by the host community living adjacent to some of the camps were blocking any vehicles from going through, effectively cutting off all access to the camps. The government wasn’t permitting any NGOs to enter. At first, I started to panic: does this mean I lose a whole day? What if the Rohingya refugee camps don’t reopen for the rest of my time here? I decided to just see where the day takes me. Since everyone was essentially stuck in the city center due to the camp closures, I quickly coordinated meetings in and around my hotel. It turned out to be an unforgettable day exploring areas and interventions I didn’t even know existed.

En route to the refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar

JEWIS WORLD WATCH

WALK TO END GENOCIDE

 Ann Strimov Durbin, March 4, 2019 

Ann Strimov Durbin, JWW's director of advocacy and grantmaking, in a car on her way to the refugee camps in Cox's Bazar. Photo by Rares Michael Ghilezan .

Ann Strimov Durbin is a human rights attorney and the Director of Advocacy and Grantmaking at Jewish World Watch.

I’m about to depart on the last leg of my journey to the camps in Cox’s Bazar. Just a 1-hr flight from Dhaka to Cox’s Bazar remains. Although the main mission of my trip has not yet begun, I have already seen and heard so much.

Women, children help desk opened in Cox’s Bazar Rohingya camp

The Daily Star
Monday, "March 4, 2019"

Cox's Bazar police and UN Women launch a Women and Children Help Desk, the first of its kind in Rohingya camps, at Madhuchara Police Camp-1 in Cox's Bazar district on Sunday, March 4, 2019. Photo: Collected

Cox's Bazar police and UN Women have launched a Women and Children Help Desk, the first of its kind in Rohingya camps, at Madhuchara Police Camp-1 in Cox's Bazar district.

Over 70 people representing various stakeholders: Rohingya women leaders, Government high officials, UN agencies, international and local organisations, Camp-in-Charges and different forum members attended the opening ceremony held yesterday where ABM Masud Hossain, Superintendent of Police(SP), Cox's Bazar and Shoko Ishikawa, Country Representative, UN Women Bangladesh inaugurated the facility according to a press release issued in this regard today.