German delegation due Wednesday to see Rohingya situation

 

 

Publish Date - February 25, 2019, 04:33 PM

 

Rohingya people enter Bangladesh territory through Teknaf bordering area. UNB File Photo

Dhaka, Feb 25 (UNB) – A German delegation of the Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with the States of South Asia arrives here on Wednesday mainly to see Rohingya situation in Cox’s Bazar district.

Briefing: How the Rohingya crisis in Bangladesh is changing

IRIN

BANGKOK, 13 February 2019

Young Rohingya refugees play at Balukhali refugee camp in Ukhia on 4 February 2019. CREDIT: Munir Uz Zaman/AFP)

Aid groups and authorities in Bangladesh are preparing to ask for more than $900 million in donor funding to help Rohingya refugees in the sprawling refugee settlements of southern Bangladesh.

But nearly 18 months after 700,000 Rohingya fled a violent military crackdown in Myanmar in August 2017, the aid sector finds itself shifting from emergency response to dealing with a protracted crisis.

Trafficking in Rohingya camps feared rising as crisis rolls on

NEW STRAITSTIMES

By Reuters - February 5, 2019 @ 10:27am

 

COX’S BAZAR: 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.

Rashida, 17, was picked up next to a health clinic in a camp in southeast Bangladesh by a man who had been courting her by phone for sometime while her mother visited the doctor.
The man, however, turned out to be a trafficker.

Aid workers race to batten down Rohingya refugee camp with no sign of crisis ending

by Belinda Goldsmith and Naimul Karim | @BeeGoldsmith | Thomson Reuters Foundation

Monday, 4 February 2019 

 

While life in the settlement has started to stabilise, aid workers are rushing to secure the camps for the longer term with one factor hanging over them - the monsoon in May then cyclone season

By Belinda Goldsmith and Naimul Karim

COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh, Feb 4 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In hotels and restaurants near the beach at Cox's Bazar in southeast Bangladesh, international and local aid workers sent to help the Rohingya in the world's largest refugee settlement talk nervously of the major challenge ahead - the weather.

ေကာ့ဇ္ဘဇား ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္စခန္းက အသံ - ဆိုက္ဒူလ္အာမီးန္

                                ကစားစရာ၊ အလွကုန္ပစၥည္းေတြ ေရာင္းေနတဲ့ ဆိုက္ဒူလ္အာမီးန္ (ဓါတ္ပံု - Photo: WFP/Gemma Snowdon)

ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္နိုင္ငံ၊ ေကာ့ဇ္ဘဇားခရိုင္မွာရွိတဲ့ ကမၻာ့အၾကီးဆံုး ဒုကၡသည္စခန္းကို လွ်ပ္တစ္ျပက္ၾကည့္ လိုက္ပါ။ အသက္ ၂၀ နွစ္အရြယ္ ဆိုက္ဒူလ္အာမီးန္နဲ့ သူ့ရဲ့ အစ္ကို နိုဘီဟူစိန္းတို့က မိသားစုဝင္ ၁၄ ဦးရွိတဲ့ မိသားစုထဲက စီးပြားေရးလုပ္ငန္းရွင္ေတြ ျဖစ္ျကပါတယ္။

ဆိုက္ဒူလ္အာမီးန္ ေျပာတာကေတာ့ --

ကြ်န္ေတာ္တို့ ဒီကိုေရာက္လာျကတာ တစ္နွစ္ေက်ာ္သြားပါျပီ။ ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံမွာတုန္းက ကြ်န္ေတာ့္အေဖက လယ္သမား၊ ကြ်န္ေတာ္က ေက်ာင္းတက္ေနခဲ့တယ္။ အဲဒီေတာ့ ကြ်န္ေတာ္ အဲဒီမွာ အလုပ္မလုပ္ခဲ့ဘူး။ ဒီမွာက်ေတာ့ ကြ်န္ေတာ္တို့ လယ္စိုက္လို့မရဘူး။ အလုပ္လည္း မရနိုင္ဘူး။ အဲဒါေျကာင့္ ကြ်န္ေတာ္နဲ့ ကြ်န္ေတာ့္အစ္ကို နိုဘီ တို့ ဒီပစၥည္းေတြကို စျပီးေရာင္းခဲ့ျကတယ္။

Over 145,000 Rohingya kids return to school in Bangladesh: UNICEF

United News of Bangladesh . Cox’s Bazar |Published: 00:18, Jan 24,2019

 

 

More than 145,000 Rohingya children living in Bangladesh camps were now attending the UNICEFsupported learning centres as a new school year began.

Currently, 97 per cent of adolescents and youngsters aged between 15 and 24 years did not receive any kind of education in the camps, said UNICEF on Wednesday.

Rohingya Refugee Robbed, Arrested and Charged in Bangladesh

Aadil Mohammad Jan 15, 2019 Rohingya Today

Cox's Bazaar — A Rohingya refugee was robbed by policemen in Bangladesh's camps on 1 January 2019, and later arrested and detained under 'Tax Evasion' charges, according to reliable reports.

( 04.11.2018 ) 2nd list of 22,432 Rohingyas given to Myanmar

Bangladesh has handed over another list of 22,432 forcibly displaced Rohingyas to Myanmar for scrutiny for their return to Rakhine State.

( 31.10.2018 ) ျမန္မာအစိုးရတာ၀န္ရိွသူမ်ား ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္ေတြနဲ႔ ေတြ႔ဆံု

ဘဂၤလားေဒရွ္႕ႏုိင္ငံက ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ဒုကၡသည္ စခန္းကို ျမန္မာ ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ အဖြဲ႔ ဒီကေန႔ သြားေရာက္ၿပီး ဌာေနျပန္ေရး လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္ကို ရွင္းလင္းပါတယ္။ ဒုကၡသည္ေတြကေတာ့ သူတို႔ကို ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ အျဖစ္ အသိ အမွတ္ျပဳေရးနဲ႔ ႏုိင္ငံသား ျဖစ္ေရး အပါအ၀င္ စိုးရိမ္ခ်က္ေတြကို ေဆြးေႏြးခဲ႔ပါတယ္။ တခ်ိန္တည္းမွာဘဲ ဌာေနျပန္ေရး အတြက္ ဒုကၡသည္ေတြၾကားမွာ အႀကီးအက်ယ္ စိုးရိမ္ခ်က္ ရွိေနတယ္လို႔လည္း ကုလသမဂၢ အႀကီးအကဲ တဦးက သတိေပးလိုက္ပါတယ္။ မသိဂၤ ီထုိက္ စုစည္းတင္ျပထားပါတယ္။

( 24.04.2018 ) တစ္ဖက္ႏိုင္ငံ သို႔သြား ေရာက္ မည့္ ေန ရပ္ စြန္႔ ခြာ သူ မ်ား ဒုကၡ သည္စခန္းမွ အဆင္ မေျပမႈမ်ား ၾကား သိရ၍ ၎တုိ႔၏ ဆႏၵ အရ မူလေန ရပ္သုိ႔ ျပန္ လည္ပုိ႔ေဆာင္

တစ္ဖက္ႏိုင္ငံသို႔သြားေရာက္မည့္ ေနရပ္စြန္႔ခြာသူမ်ား ဒုကၡသည္စခန္းမွ အဆင္မေျပမႈမ်ား ၾကားသိရ၍
၎တုိ႔၏ ဆႏၵအရ မူလေနရပ္သုိ႔ ျပန္လည္ပုိ႔ေဆာင္

ဧၿပီ ၂၄၊ ၂၀၁၈

တစ္ဖက္ႏိုင္ငံသို႔သြားေရာက္မည့္ ေနရပ္စြန္႔ခြာသူမ်ား ဒုကၡသည္စခန္းမွ အဆင္မေျပမႈမ်ား ၾကားသိရ၍ ၎တုိ႔၏ ဆႏၵအရ မူလေနရပ္သုိ႔ ျပန္လည္ေနထိုင္လ်က္ရွိေၾကာင္းသိရသည္။

Thai court sentences man to 35 years in Rohingya trafficking case ( Reuters )

REUTERS

by Alisa Tang | @alisatang 

Thomson Reuters Foundation
Wednesday, 31 August 2016

Rohingya migrant Muhammad Solim, 20, sits in a house in Nakhon Si Thammarat province, Thailand, in this April 28, 2015 file photo. Muhammad Solim, a Rohingya previously living as a refugee in Bangladesh, said he suffers from the effects of malnutrition after spending nearly three months at sea and 90 days in a jungle camp before he was ransomed for the equivalent of US$2,240, paid in baht and ringgit. REUTERS/Aubrey Belford.

 

 The high-profile case led to the discovery of jungle camps, mass graves and an international trafficking ring By Alisa Tang