More Rohingya take children as they leave Bangladesh by boat - aid groups

REUTERS
By Ruma Paul and Sudipto Ganguly
November 27, 2023

Rohingya Muslims walk as they are being transported to a temporary shelter, following their arrival in Sabang, Aceh province, Indonesia, November 22, 2023. REUTERS/Riska Munawarah/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights

 

DHAKA, Nov 27 (Reuters) - An increasing number of Rohingya people are leaving refugee camps in Bangladesh with their children, taking to boats in search of a better life as hopes fade of returning to Myanmar or being resettled, and camp life gets tougher, aid groups say.

Parents Pull Children From Schools in Yangon as Myanmar Junta Troops Move In

The Irrawaddy
November 24, 2023

Junta soldiers guard a school on June 1, 2023.

Parents have stopped sending their children to public schools in several townships of Yangon after the regime started stationing troops at schools again last week.

Junta troops have been stationed at three highs schools in Thingangyun Township, one in South Dagon Township, one in Hlaing Tharyar Township, another in South Okkalapa Township, and at a few schools in North Okkalapa Township, residents of the townships say.

Myanmar's military junta detaining women, children to quell protests: UN official

AA
Ömer Faruk Madanoğlu
ISTANBUL
31.08.2023

Extent of sexual assault crimes against Rohingya women shocked me like never before, says UN investigator for Myanmar

United Nations Information Office in Yangon, Myanmar ( Aung Naing Soe - Anadolu Agency )

A senior UN official who visited Myanmar after the February 2021 coup said the lives of women and children in the Southeast Asian nation were at a particular risk.

Nicholas Koumjian, head of the UN's Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar, told Anadolu that prior to the coup in Myanmar, the UN tried to resolve tensions between the military junta and the former government.

Children among dead as stranded Rohingya face starvation at sea, families say

CNN
By Rhea Mogul, CNN
Wed December 21, 2022 

Mohammad Shajahan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

A Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on August 24, 2022.

Many Rohingya are feared dead at sea more than three weeks after their boat became stranded off the Indian coast, where at least 160 people remain aboard on the brink of starvation, family members and the United Nations’ refugee agency said.
 

Mohammed Rezuwan Khan, whose sister and 5-year-old niece are on the vessel, told CNN Wednesday that two children and a woman had died, adding that those still alive have “no water, food or medicine.”
 

“We are extremely concerned and want them to be rescued. It’s growing increasingly difficult for them to survive,” said Khan, adding that he last spoke to the boat’s captain on Sunday.

 

KS relief provides Rohingya refugee women and children lifesaving aid

ARAB NEWS
SHEHAB SUMON
September 08, 2022 

In this photo taken in May 2022, Rohingya beneficiaries of KSrelief aid are seen at a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. (KSrelief)

• Over $25m already for Bangladesh’s squalid Cox’s Bazar
• Maternal care, food, shelter and education provided

DHAKA: When in 2017 Rohingya Muslims fled persecution in Myanmar, most sought shelter in neighboring Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar that now has over 1.2 million living in squalid conditions, and where Saudi Arabia is focusing part of its global relief efforts.

The mass arrival of Rohingyas has turned the coastal region of the country’s southeast into the world’s largest refugee settlement, with women and children being the biggest and most vulnerable group dependent on external aid.

Although Bangladesh is not a signatory to the 1951 UN Refugee Convention, it has been hosting and providing humanitarian support for those displaced. But many complex interventions require costly care, and Saudi Arabia has been a key donor.

A 'lost generation' of Rohingya children will have nowhere to go

By Saad Hammadi South Asia Campaigner,

24 January 2020, 

As the world observes the International Day of Education today, nearly five million children are growing up in Bangladesh without access to education. These include not just the 4.3 million Bangladeshi children who have not seen the inside of a classroom, but also the half a million Rohingya children who have been languishing in refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar.

One ventilator for 93,273 people: Save the Children

The Daily Star 
April 07, 2020
Star Online Report 

Makes urgent call for international assistanc  

Save the Children today made an urgent call for international assistance to help Bangladesh meet a surge in demand for ventilators amid the Covid-19 outbreak and to avert a humanitarian disaster in the country.

The call comes at a time when 164 people were found infected with coronavirus, of whom 17 died. There are fears that the numbers would go up in the coming days despite a shutdown across the country since March 26.

Switzerland grants asylum to Arakan Army leader’s wife, children

MYANMAR TIMES

Swe Lei Mon 

27 Feb 2020

The wife and two children of Arakan Army (AA) leader General Tun Myat Naing have flown to Switzerland after being granted political asylum, the ethnic armed group said on Wednesday.

Khaing Thu Kha, AA spokesperson, said Ma Hnin Zar Phyu and her 11-year-old daughter and one-year-old son left Bangkok for Switzerland on Tuesday.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) arranged the asylum, he said.

“We are very thankful to the UNHCR, the friends who helped in this process, and the Thailand government, which acted humanely, not like the Singapore government,” he added.

'Great news': Bangladesh allows education for Rohingya children

Aljazeera
2020.01.30

Under new programme, 10,000 Rohingya boys and girls to be enrolled in grades 6 to 9, a move hailed by rights groups.

Rohingya refugee children attend a class to learn Burmese language at a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh [File: Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters]

Rights groups and activists have welcomed Bangladesh's decision to allow Rohingya children living in sprawling refugee camps to receive a formal education, calling it a "positive step".

Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya children, who fled a brutal crackdown in neighbouring Myanmar along with their parents in 2017, only receive primary education in temporary learning centres set up by international NGOs and the UN children's agency UNICEF.

Bangladesh allows education for Rohingya refugee children

Mail online
By Afp

28 January 2020 

Nearly one million Rohingya, including more than half a million children, live in the crowded camps near the southeastern border with Myanmar

Rohingya children living in Bangladesh refugee camps will be allowed to receive a formal education after a change of heart by Dhaka in a move welcomed by right activists.

Nearly one million Rohingya, including more than half a million children, live in the squalid and crowded camps near the southeastern border with Myanmar, where many had fled from in 2017 after a brutal military crackdown.

UN, NGOs accused of bungling effort to educate Rohingya children

Aljazeera
by Clare Hammond & Victoria Milko
October 8th 2019.

Questions raised over efforts to give Rohingya children and youth formal education under Myanmar curriculum.

According to UNICEF about 461,000 of the 910,000 refugees in Cox's Bazar are children [File: Abir Abdullah/EPA] 

On May 13, a group of Rohingya refugee education leaders had the rare chance to ask some of the questions that had been weighing on their minds for more than two years.

For the first time, they were meeting representatives from the United Nations and international NGOs tasked with providing education to about half a million Rohingya refugee children living in camps in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.

Minutes of the meeting obtained by Al Jazeera, show how the community leaders questioned the officials about the slow effort to give refugees formal education, the absence of a Myanmar curriculum in the camps, and the lack of consultation with the community.

Two years on, has the world forgotten the Rohingya children?

South China Morning Post
Opinion

David Skinner

Published: 20 Aug, 2019

The Rohingya children who fled rape, torture and killings are not a lost generation – but they are in danger of becoming a forgotten one

Rohingya Muslims, who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, wait to receive aid at Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhiya, Bangladesh. Photo: AP

Fatima is acutely aware of the importance of school. The 13-year-old fled Myanmar two years ago with nothing. She now lives in the world’s biggest refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar with her parents, two sisters and grandfather. She has faced difficulties most children her age never will. She wants to be a teacher, but not just any teacher. She wants to teach girls because when girls are educated, they teach others.

Boredom is a struggle for Rohingya children missing out on vital education in refugee camps

CHRISTIANS TODAY 
Staff writer   
Tue 13 Aug 2019 

 Rohingya children show their thirst for learning by joining one of Tearfund's safe spaces, where they can play, draw, write poems, talk to a trained therapist, do informal maths and sing songs together.

No school might seem like the dream for most British children but for young Rohingya refugees, they want nothing more than to get back into education to pursue their dreams.

Extremism growing among Rohingya children in Cox’s Bazar camps

AsiaNews
by Sumon Corraya
06/24/2019,

Bangladesh doesn’t allow refugee children to attend schools with their Bangladeshi peers. A radical group, Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh, fills the educational gap with its own 1,200 madrassas. Activists warn against the danger of future terrorist attacks.

Cox’s Bazar (AsiaNews) – Abdur Rahaman, 12, a Rohingya refugee has lived in a camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh for more than two years. When he was home, in Myanmar, he wanted to be a doctor, but now everything has changed. “Here I cannot go to school. My parents enrolled me in a madrassa. Now I will never be a doctor."

Like Abdur, thousands of other children cannot go to regular school and are increasingly becoming "prey" to Islamic radicalism taught in 1,200 Islamic schools.

75pc Rohingya babies born in unsafe, unsanitary bamboo shelters: study

NEWAGE 

United News of Bangladesh

Dhaka | Published:  Jun 04,2019

A Rohingya refugee girl carries a baby while walking in a camp in Cox's Bazar, October 10, 2017. — Reuters file photo  

An estimated 75 percent of Rohingya babies are born in the unsafe and unsanitary bamboo shelters in which Rohingyas live, according to an assessment made by Save the Children.

Home births in such conditions put the lives of both mother and baby at great risk, it said on Monday.

Rohingya Refugees Lack Schools, Qualified Teachers

VOA

South & Central Asia

May 11, 2019

 

Aid groups in the Rohingya refugee camps are slowly building an education system for 300,000 children in Bangladesh. 

 Shamsuddin, a Rohingya refugee himself, teaches Burmese language to Rohingya children. Like many of the teachers in the refugee camps he has only finished high school.

Aid Groups Face Challenges in Educating Rohingya Refugee Children

VOA
South & Central Asia
May 11, 2019
Dave Grunebaum

                                       Rohingya Refugees Lack Schools, Qualified Teachers

COX’S BAZAR, BANGLADESH —

Ruksana Begum and her classmates repeat after their teacher: “respect.”

The students are all Rohingya refugees who fled to Bangladesh from neighboring Myanmar. Nine-year-old Ruksana says she hopes to become a teacher herself one day. But her current instructor, as hard as he tries, is not really qualified for the job.

Geneva Palais Briefing Note: Education for Rohingya children in Bangladesh

unicf
03 May 2019
 
This is a summary of what was said by UNICEF spokesperson Christophe Boulierac – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.

UNICEF/UN0203363/Sokol

GENEVA, 3 May 2019 – This week, UNICEF inaugurated the 2,000th learning center in the Rohingya refugee camps of Cox’s Bazar of Bangladesh. More than 180,000 children are now learning in the 2,000 UNICEF-supported learning centres, taught by 4,000 teachers who have been trained by UNICEF partners. These children are aged between 4 to 14 years.

Unicef Malaysia ambassador Lisa Surihani moved to tears in Cox’s Bazar.

Star2 .com 
APRIL 19, 2019
BY S. INDRAMALAR

Unicef Malaysia national ambassador Lisa Surihani was overcome with emotion after listening to the Rohingya refugees share accounts of how they had to flee their homes in Myanmar. Photo: S. INDRAMALAR/The Star

On her first day at the refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, actress Lisa Surihani’s eyes welled up with tears.

“I couldn’t control myself,” she shares. “I didn’t want to cry but hearing their stories … listening to what the women and children had to go through to escape from the violence in Myanmar and make their way to Bangladesh … it was truly unfathomable and I was overcome with a whole gamut of emotions.

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.