Muslim refugees call for UNHCR-issued IDs

MYANMAR TIMES

Nyan Lynn Aung 

24 May 2019 

Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (centre), arrives at Khaung Doke Khar refugee camp in Sittwe township on Wednesday. Photo - EPA

 

Muslim refugees at camps in Sittwe township of Rakhine State have asked the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to give them ID cards as proof of their refugee status.

Some 250,000 Rohingya refugees receive first ID cards: UN

FRANCH 24
Date created : 17/05/2019

Some 740,000 Rohingya refugees fled a Myanmar military crackdown in August 2017 AFP/File

Geneva (AFP)

The UN said Friday it has registered more than 250,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, providing many with their first ever identification cards and proof of their right to return to Myanmar in the future.

Efforts to provide biometric ID cards to Rohingya refugees scale up

BIOMATRIC
Chris Burt
Mar 29, 2019 |

The UN Refugee Agency and the government of Bangladesh are scaling up biometric registration of Rohingya refugees fleeing the humanitarian crisis in Myanmar in order to provide them with biometric ID cards.

The UNHCR announced the efforts after a visit by Assistant High Commissioner for Protection Volker Türk and other agency representatives to the world’s largest refugee settlement, Kutupalong, and meeting with Bengali government officials. Türk lauded efforts by Bangladesh’s government and host communities to support the refugees.