Rohingya man found dead in Cox’s Bazar

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Prothom Alo English Desk | Update: 00:12, Mar 03, 2019
 

Police recovered the body of a young man of Rohingya community from a septic tank at Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia upazila in Cox's Bazar on Saturday, reports UNB.

The deceased was Shafiqul Islam, 26, son of Lokman Hakim of block-1 of the refugee camp.

Nurul Islam Mazumdar, officer-in-charge (investigation) of Ukhia police station, said Shafiqul was missing since Thursday. His elder brother filed an abduction case with the police station.

Localising the Rohingya refugee response

The Daily Star

 March 01, 2019, Development

Photo: Kazi tahsin Agaz Apurbo

For decades now, Rohingya refugees have been crossing the border into Bangladesh as unrest worsened in their native Rakhine, Myanmar. Following a smaller refugee influx in 2016, over 700,000 refugees subsequently fled across the border in August 2017, at a speed and scale surpassing greatly previous influxes.

Skills Training to Equip 18,000 Rohingya Adolescents with Hope for a Better Future

World Vision
Internation
ARTICLE • TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26th 2019

UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta H. Fore visits new World Vision centre for adolescents

Out of school for more than 18 months, an estimated 117,000 Rohingya adolescents living in the world’s largest refugee camp desperately need learning opportunities. However, only four percent of these boys and girls have access to any form of education, life-skills or vocational training.

Storm devastates Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh

AA

Md. Kamruzzaman | 26.02.2019

Refugees pleas for help after tents, toilets destroyed

 

DHAKA, Bangladesh
A sudden storm destroyed part of a shaky structure in Rohingya refugee camps in southeastern Bangladesh on Monday, according to residents.

Bangladesh’s forest getting destroyed for Rohingyas: FM

The Daily Star 
February 24, 2019

A Rohingya Muslim refugee collects sand and soil at Balukhali refugee camp in Ukhia district of Bangladesh on November 20, 2017. An estimated 618,000 Muslim Rohingya have fled mainly Buddhist Myanmar since a military crackdown was launched in Rakhine in August triggered an exodus, straining resources in the impoverished country. Photo: AFP

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen today said as over 1.2 million Rohingyas are living in Cox's Bazar district of the country, much of Bangladesh's forest is getting destroyed creating environmental disasters.

Three German journalists among 6 injured in Rohingya camp

NEWAGE

 Our Correspondent . Cox’s Bazar | Published: 00:53, Feb 23,2019 | 

Six people including three German journalists were attacked inside the Rohingya camp during their filming at Lambashia camp of Kutupalnong in Ukhiya of Cox’s Bazar on Thursday afternoon.

The ARD German TV cameraman, Gunder Stegner, 61, along with his German colleagues Stefanie Appel, 49, and Ernico Leube, 44, and Bangladeshi fixer Mohammad Shihabuddin was beaten and were given treatment at a nearby hospital afterwards.

Hasina’s Rohingya dilemma growing, Delhi must help Dhaka resolve crisis

The Asian Age 

Shubha Singh

The writer is a senior journalist based in New Delhi.

 Muslim refugees many of whom have now spent more than 18 months in the camps.

Bilateral ties between India and Bangladesh have blossomed into a full-fledged, broad-based relationship that has broken new ground over the past decade. Weeks after Sheikh Hasina’s government was re-elected for a third term, Bangladesh foreign minister A.K. Abdul Momen was in New Delhi for his first foreign visit.

Rohingya Refugees in Cox's Bazar Camps Exposed to the Elements

International Quran News Agency

iqna

TEHRAN (IQNA) – Nearly 600,000 refugees at the Rohingya camps in Cox's Bazar are at high risk of cyclones with only rotting bamboos and shredding plastics to protect them, warned the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC).

A Red Cross Red Crescent survey found that 82 percent of the 700,000 people in the sprawling camps urgently need sturdier shelters to protect them from extreme temperatures, monsoon downpours and two cyclone seasons a year, the Daily Star reported.

Education The Key For Rohingya Trapped In Cox’s Bazar

newmatilda.com
By Orla Murphy on February 12, 2019  

Australia has an obligation to assist one of the world’s most persecuted minorities, writes Orla Murphy from Plan International.

As children around Australia settle into a new school year, in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugee children are struggling to get an education.

Drugs, violence threaten Rohingya men in world's largest refugee camp

 REUTERS

 February 8, 2019 / Naimul Karim

 

COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Sitting near a tea stall smoking and drinking sugary milk tea, a group of young Rohingya men are bored and worried about their futures in the world’s largest refugee settlement.

Rohingya's hope for better future fades in refugee camps

ASIA PACIFIC

Istanbul, Published February 8, 2019   

A young Rohingya refugee plays in Balukhali refugee camp, Ukhia, Feb. 4, 2019. 

Rohingya refugees, trapped in appalling conditions in vast Bangladeshi refugee camps, face an uncertain future while suffering grave human rights violations

Rohingya has growing concerns about their future in the world's largest refugee settlement in Bangladesh, as many of them suffer from lack of education and guidance.

Elephants face 'time bomb' in Bangladesh land clash with Rohingya refugees

REUTERS
February 7, 2019,

Belinda Goldsmith

 

COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Standing atop an elephant watch-tower on the outskirts of the sprawling Rohingya refugee settlement in southeast Bangladesh, Nur Islam takes great pride in keeping his people safe.

Dressed in a uniform of blue T-shirt, navy trousers and a neon yellow vest, Islam is one of 570 Rohingya on the Elephant Response Team, known locally as the tusk force, who are on duty every night to look out for elephants coming into the camps.

From sports to work, Rohingya women face new roles in world's largest refugee camp

REUTERS

Belinda Goldsmith, Naimul Karim


COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - On a blue mat in their mud and bamboo home in the middle of the world’s largest refugee settlement, Mohammad Selim is pacing his 9-year-old daughter Nasima Akter on her taekwondo drill.

As a local taekwondo champion in his Rohingya district in Myanmar before fleeing to Bangladesh 18 months ago, Selim dreamed of making a career of his sport but now he is hoping that his daughter can instead follow that path.

Angelina Jolie to Myanmar: Show genuine commitment to end displacement in Rakhine

DhakaTribune
February 5th, 2019

UNHCR special envoy Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie addresses a press conference at Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh on Tuesday; Feb 5, 2019 Dhaka Tribune

The UNHCR special envoy arrived in Cox's Bazar on Monday morning to assess the humanitarian needs of the Rohingyas

UNHCR Special Envoy and Hollywood superstar Angelina Jolie on Tuesday urged the Myanmar authorities to show the genuine commitment to end the cycle of violence, displacement, and improve the conditions for all communities in Rakhine State, including the Rohingyas.

Show genuine commitment to end displacement in Rakhine: Jolie

daily sun

05th Feb 2019

 

 

UNHCR special envoy and famous Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie on Tuesday urged the Myanmar authorities to show the genuine commitment to end the cycle of violence, displacement, and improve the conditions for all communities in Rakhine State, including Rohingyas.

Rohingya Refugees Call for Justice as Angelina Jolie Visits Bangladesh Camp

 Radio Free Asia
 2019-02-04

American actress and UNHCR special envoy Angelina Jolie walks toward a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Feb. 4, 2019.
BenarNews

Hollywood superstar and U.N. ambassador Angelina Jolie heard stories of abuse when she met Rohingya children and women at a refugee camp in southeastern Bangladesh on Monday, authorities said, as she began a three-day visit to the country.

Trafficking in Rohingya camps feared rising as crisis rolls on

by Naimul Karim | @Naimonthefield | Thomson Reuters Foundation
Tuesday, 5 February 2019 01:00 GMT

Anti-trafficking groups fear human trafficking routes to southeast Asia through Bay of Bengal are being used to smuggle increasingly desperate Rohingya refugees out of Bangladesh.

 

 

 

COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh, Feb 5 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In a shelter made of plastic sheets and bamboo next to a reeking stream in the world's largest refugee settlement, Rohingya Nazma Akter recalled how her daughter was trafficked seven months ago.

Angelina Jolie visits refugee camp

Angelina Jolie, a special envoy for the UNHCR, waves at Rohingya children at a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar yesterday. Photo: Collected

UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie begins visit to Bangladesh, host to nearly 1 million Rohingya refugees

04 February 2019

Angelina Jolie, the Special Envoy for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is visiting Bangladesh this week. Bangladesh has been heavily affected by the influx of more than 730,000 Rohingya refugees from Myanmar since August 2017 and now hosts nearly a million refugees. The majority of refugees – more than 620,000 people – live in just one area: Kutapalong, the largest refugee settlement anywhere in the world today.

UNHCR: Largest ever refugee waste management facility in Rohingya camps

February 2nd, 2019

File Photo of a Rohingya camps in Cox's Bazar Mahmud Hossain Opu/Dhaka Tribune

‘This will significantly reduce health risks for refugees and host communities, and the likelihood of the outbreak of disease’
The ability to treat large volumes of waste on-site at Rohingya camps, rather than having to transport it elsewhere, is a critical step to safe and sustainable disposal of such waste in emergency situations, said the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR).