Rohingya women produce reusable sanitary pads in Cox’s Bazar

UNFPA
27 May 2021

“Amidst the unstable conditions that we are living in, coming to the Women-Led Community Center gives us the opportunity to invest our time, energy and skills into a productive activity that can benefit us and the women in our community,” says Junaida, a young Rohingya woman living in the sprawling Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar.

Since January 2021, Junaida has been coming to the UNFPA-supported Women-Led Community Center in her camp to receive training on producing reusable sanitary pads for women in the Rohingya community. The aim of the initiative is to support Rohingya women to take care of their menstrual hygiene in a sustainable manner, as well as to give them the opportunity to cope with the stress caused by the ongoing crisis by engaging in activities beneficial for their community.

Bangladesh Trashes Report Alleging Rohingya Were Promised Citizenship to Move to Island

Benar News

Kamran Reza Chowdhury
Dhaka
2021-05-27

A Rohingya refugee draws water from a pump on Bhashan Char Island in Bangladesh, Dec. 30, 2020.

[Special to BenarNews]

A new report by an international NGO alleges that Dhaka has falsely promised Bangladeshi citizenship to Rohingya refugees who move to Bhashan Char, a remote and flood-prone island in the Bay of Bengal, a claim that the government on Thursday rejected as untrue.

Bangladesh is focused on repatriating Rohingya to neighboring Myanmar, said Delwar Hossain, director general of the Myanmar wing at the foreign ministry, while he dismissed the report by Refugees International as containing false allegations.

Bangladesh Relying on World Community to Press Myanmar Junta on Rohingya Repatriation

Radio Free Asia ( RFA )
2021-05-25

Junta leader Senior General Min Aung Hlaing says the Rohingya are not a recognized ethnic group in Myanmar and will not be allowed to return to their homes in Rakhine.

Rohingya refugees gather behind a barbed-wire fence at a temporary settlement in a border zone between Myanmar and Bangladesh in a file photo.

Bangladesh is counting on the international community to pressure Myanmar into repatriating more than 1 million Rohingya refugees, after the Burmese junta chief said that Naypyidaw does not recognize them as citizens, a senior lawmaker told BenarNews, an RFA-affiliated online news service, on Tuesday.

In clips posted on social media a day earlier, Myanmar military chief Min Aung Hlaing was seen telling a Chinese television channel that his country would not repatriate people whom it does not consider as citizens under the law.

Faruk Khan, a Bangladeshi MP who chairs the parliamentary Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, said he had heard these comments.

Bangladesh's efforts for Rohingya’s in Bhashan Char an example to the world: UNGA president

theindependent

BSS, Dhaka
25 May, 2021

President of the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) Volkan Bozker on Tuesday highly appreciated Bangladesh's efforts for Rohingyas in Bhasan Char saying it will be another example to the world on how to deal with refugees.

"This would be another example to the world on how to deal with refugees," he said in a joint media briefing at Foreign Service Academy.

The UNGA President said he could not visit Bhasan Char but he saw a video on Bhasan Char and acknowledged the high-level works in Bhasan Char including precautions and safety measures.

Bangladesh seeks vaccines from UN, donors for Rohingya

AA

SM Najmus Sakib
DHAKA, Bangladesh
24.05.2021

Rising COVID-19 infections in squalid refugee camps force authorities to impose lockdown

Bangladesh has sought COVID-19 vaccines and other related support for Rohingya refugees in the country from the UN and other donor agencies, said an official on Monday.

Shah Rezwan Hayat, head of the Office of the Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner (RRRC), told Anadolu Agency that they have requested the UN Refugee Agency and held meetings with the World Health Organization to initiate a vaccination campaign for the refugees in the southern district of Cox's Bazar.

Bangladesh imposes lockdown on Rohingya camps

The Assam Tribune
1 May 2021

Dhaka, May 21: The crowded refugee camps that are home to hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims in Bangladesh have been placed under a lockdown after an alarming spread of the coronavirus, officials said on Friday. 

The shutdown will initially last for one week, until May 27, dpa news agency quoted Shah Rezwan Hayat, the head of Bangladesh's Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commission, as saying. 

5 Rohingya refugee camps under lockdown in Bangladesh after Covid-19 outbreak

LA PRENS LATINA MEDIA

Online News Editor
May 21, 2021

Dhaka, May 21 (EFE).- Bangladesh on Friday imposed lockdown in five of the 34 Rohingya camps in the southeastern district of Cox’s Bazar after detecting a sharp increase in coronavirus cases among the refugees living there.

“Some restrictions in Rohingya camps were already in place. Due to an increase in transmission, more restrictions were imposed in five camps until further instruction,” Bangladesh’s deputy commissioner for refugees, relief and repatriation, Mohammad Shamsuddoha, told EFE.

Rohingya crisis - WHO Bangladesh situation report #9, 14 May 2021 (Period covered: Weeks 17-18, 26 April-9 May)

Situation Report 

Source :WHO
17 May 2021

ဘာဆန္ခ်ာကၽြန္းဟာ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြကိုထားဖို႔ လုံျခဳံတဲ့ေန ရာလို႔ ဘဂၤလား‌ေဒ့ရွ္ေျပာ

လြတ္လပ္တဲ့့့့အာရွွအသံ ( RFA )
May 12'2021

■ အမ္ဖန္ ဆိုက္ကလုန္းမုန္တိုင္းေၾကာင့္ ဘဂၤလား‌ေဒ့ရွ္ ကမ္းရိုးတန္းတေလၽွာက္မွာ ထိခိုက္ပ်က္စီးခဲ့ေပမယ့္ ဘာဆန္ခ်ာကၽြန္းဟာ မုန္တိုင္းဒဏ္ကို ခံနိုင္တဲ့အတြက္  ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္ေတြကို ထားဖို႔ အလုံျခဳံဆုံးေန  ရာတခု ျဖစ္တယ္လို႔ ဘဂၤလား‌ေဒ့ရွ္ ေဘးအႏၲရာယ္စီမံခန႔္ခြဲေရးနဲ႔ ကယ္ဆယ္‌ေရးဝန္ႀကီးက ေျပာလိုက္ပါ တယ္။

ဒါေၾကာင့္ ေကာ့ဆက္ဘဇားခရိုင္ ဒုကၡသည္စခန္းေတြက ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြကို ဘာဆန္ခ်ာကၽြန္း‌ေပၚ  ေျပာင္းေရႊ ႕ေနရာခ်ထားနိုင္တယ္လို႔  ဆိုပါတယ္။

ဘဂၤလား‌ေဒ့ရွ္အစိုးရ အေနနဲ႔  ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြကို ကၽြန္းေပၚ ေျပာင္းေရႊ႕မယ့္ လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္အတြက္ ကုလသမဂၢ ဒုကၡသည္ေအဂ်င္စီ UNHCR/ ကုလသမဂၢ စားနပ္ရိကၡာေအဂ်င္စီ WFP အပါအဝင္ NGOs လူမႈအဖြဲ႕အစည္း ေတြနဲ႔ ဆက္ၿပီးေဆြး‌‌ေႏြးမယ္လို႔ သိရပါတယ္။

Bhashan Char Relocation: Bangladesh’s Effort Appreciated by UN

moderndiplomacy
May 11, 2021
Shaikh Abdur Rahman

Bhashan Char. Image source: dhakatribune.com

Bhashan Char, situated in the district of Noakhali, is one of the 75 islands of Bangladesh. To ease the pressure on the digested camps in Cox’s Bazar and to maintain law and order, Bangladesh has relocated about 18,500 Rohingya refugees from the overcrowded camps to the island since December last year. The Rohingya relocation plan to Bhashan Char aligns with the Bangladesh government’s all-encompassing efforts towards repatriation. The initial plan was to relocate 100,000 of the more than a million refugees from the clogged camps to the island. From the onset of the relocation process, the UN and some other human rights organizations criticized the decision pointing to remoteness and sustainability. UNHCR showed their concern over the island’s susceptibility to seasonal storm and flood. They proposed for a “technical assessment” of the Bhashan Char facilities.

If Dhaka joins Quad, it’ll harm ties with Beijing

The Daily Star
Unb, Dhaka
May 11, 2021

Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming has said Bangladesh should not join "Quad", a US-led initiative, and Dhaka's relations with Beijing will "substantially get damaged" if it joins the initiative.

He termed "Quad" a military alliance aiming against China's resurgence and its relationship with neighbours.

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The ambassador said Quad is a "narrow-purposed" geopolitical clique, and Bangladesh should not join it as the country will not derive any benefit from the initiative.

The US, India, Japan and Australia are part of an informal strategic alliance the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, or Quad as it is known.

"History has proved again and again such partnership surely damages our neighbours' own social, economic development and people's well-being," Ambassador Li said.

Joint Multi-Sector Needs Assessment (J-MSNA): Bangladesh Rohingya Refugees - May 2021 [EN/BN]

Assessment
Source :ISCG
6 May 2021

IOM Bangladesh Rohingya Humanitarian Crisis Response - Monthly Situation Report (April 2021)

Situation Report
Source :IOM

6 May 2021

Bangladesh: Age and Disability Inclusion Needs Assessment - Rohingya Refugee Response (April 2021)

Assessment
Source :REACH
30 Apr 2021

Bangladesh, Indonesia for early signing of PTA

UNB NEWS

DHAKA
PUBLISH- APRIL 29, 2021,

Bangladesh and Indonesia on Thursday stressed early signing of Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) within the ambit of which potential export items from both countries would be allowed to enter duty free.

The two countries agreed to complete the signing of pending MoUs and agreements on a fast-track basis, pursue sector specific agenda and do the needful to expand the volume of bilateral trade and investment.

30 Rohingyas heading to Malaysia rescued

The Daily Star
Our Correspondent, Cox’s Bazar
April 28, 2021

 

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Bangladesh Coast Guard members yesterday rescued 30 Rohingyas, who were trying to go to Malaysia illegally by a trawler through the Bay of Bengal, in Cox's Bazar's Teknaf.

The Rohingyas include 10 women and five children. They were residents of 

The coastguards also seized the trawler.

Quoting the refugees, Amirul Haque, an official of Coast Guard's media wing, told reporters that around 50 Rohingyas boarded the trawler from the beaches in Teknaf and Ukhia upazilas on April 22.

The trawler illegally started for Malaysia on Monday night and at one stage, the trawler driver shouted that robbers had been chasing them and anchored it on Boro Dail beach yesterday morning.

Bangladesh: Turkish agency distributes aid to Rohingya

AA

Mehmet Sah Yilmaz
ANKARA 
26.04.2021

Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency aims to help 5,000 Rohingya families in Muslim holy month of Ramadan

Turkey's state-run aid agency sent relief to 1,000 Rohingya families living in a refugee camp in Bangladesh, the organization announced on Monday.

The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) said in a statement that the aid was provided as part of a campaign initiated for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

OP-ED: A wake-up call for Bangladesh?

Dhaka Tribune

Nisath Salsabil Rob
April 25th, 2021

In handling the Rohingya crisis, it is time Bangladesh prepared for the long haul

In the wee hours of February 1, 2021, Myanmar’s military -- the Tatmadaw -- declared a one-year state of emergency and arrested democratically elected leaders of the ruling party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), including Myanmar’s former de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi, thereby putting a nail on the coffin of Myanmar’s fledgling democracy.

Rohingya youth killed in ‘gunfight’ with BGB at Ghumdhum border

Dhaka Tribune

Abdul Aziz, Cox’s Bazar
April 23rd, 2021

Representational image. BIGSTOCK

The alleged gunfight took place in the early hours of Friday

A Rohingya youth named Mohammad Ibrahim was killed reportedly in a gunfight with Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members on Bangladesh-Myanmar border at Ghumdhum in Naikhongchhari, an upazila in Bandarban adjacent to Cox's Bazar district.

BGB says the deceased was a yaba peddler. He was from Kutupalong Rohingya refugee camp in Ukhiya, Cox's Bazar.

Burma and Bangladesh - Regional Crisis Response Fact Sheet #4, Fiscal Year (FY) 2021

Situation Report
Source :USAID
23 Apr 2021