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 Refugee Camps Turn to LPG, Reforestation to Save Depleted Bangladesh Forests

IOM
International Organization for Migration
Published on 31 May 2019

LPG is reducing demand for firewood in Bangladesh’s Rohingya refugee camps.

Cox’s Bazar – Khair Hussein remembers when cooking a meal meant a back-breaking trek up a dirt slope to collect firewood from the nearby bush. He isn’t sure which was worse – the sweltering heat of the dry season, or the thick mud of the rainy season that made many paths impassable. As time went on, the bush receded and price of firewood from vendors doubled. 

Barzani Charity Foundation extends humanitarian aid to Rohingya in Bangladesh

KURDISTAND24
Hiwa Shilani
22/05/2019

ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – The Kurdistan Region’s Barzani Charity Foundation (BCF) has extended its humanitarian assistance to the Rohingya people from Myanmar, who are living in the Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh.

Since August 2017, over 700,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled Myanmar’s Rakhine State to escape the military’s large-scale crusade of ethnic purging, with the majority taking refuge in Bangladesh’s largest refugee camp in the world.

Rohingya families have little to celebrate this Ramzan

THE HINDU 
Soibam Rocky Singh
Updated: May 20, 2019  

Refugees living in makeshift houses on government land rely on odd jobs to make ends meet

Tucked in the south-east border of the Capital, a refugee colony housing around 65 families of the Rohingya community exhibits a mundane atmosphere, a far cry from other Muslim communities in the surrounding locality.

Turkish field hospital in Bangladesh provides treatment to 1,000 Rohingya refugees per day

DAILY SABAH

ISTANBUL

Published 06.05.2019 

 AA Photo

 

A Turkish field hospital in Bangladesh's Cox Bazar has been providing medical services to thousands of Rohingya refugees who fled Myanmar due to government atrocities since it was first established in 2018.

The hospital was inaugurated in February 2018 by Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD) with the contributions of the Health Ministry, and it has been providing medical treatment and health care for approximately a thousand patients each day since then.

‘Thai Angelina Jolie’ Praya Lundberg on the Rohingya refugee crisis, being a UN humanitarian and acting

South China Morning Post

Vincenzo La Torre  

Published: 29 Apr, 2019

• The Thai actress and model grew up in the spotlight as a child actor and her fame made her able to see the inequalities in her homeland
• In 2017, she was named Thailand’s first Goodwill Ambassador to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

 Praya Lundberg at the Kutupolong refugee camp in Bangladesh, last year.

With a successful television and film career spanning well over a decade, more than three million Instagram followers and endorsement deals with some of the world’s top brands, Praya Lundberg is a bona-fide A-list celebrity in her native Thailand.

The 30-year-old is also part of a cohort of Thai millennials who call themselves “third-culture kids”.

In Rohingya Camps, Political Activities Risky For Some

VOA
April 28, 2019

Mohib Ullah, a leader of Arakan Rohingya Society for Peace and Human Rights, speaks to other Rohingya people who face problem to collect relief supplies in Kutupalong camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh April 7, 2019. (REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain)

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It was after Mohib Ullah scored his first political victories that the death threats began for real. On a recent morning, the Rohingya refugee spoke with Reuters in the Bangladesh camp where he lives. He read the latest warning, sent over the WhatsApp messaging app.

Fire guts shanties in Bangladesh Rohingya refugee camp

The Washington Post

By Associated Press  

April 24 at 10:29 AM

 Smoke and flames rise from the site of a fire at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, Wednesday, April 24, 2019. A fire raced through a sprawling camp of Rohingya refugees in southern Bangladesh, destroying more than two dozen huts and a mosque on Wednesday, an official said. (Associated Press)

DHAKA, Bangladesh — A fire in a sprawling Rohingya refugee camp in southern Bangladesh on Wednesday destroyed more than two dozen huts and a mosque, an official said.

Rohingyas must return home

The Daily Star

Sunday, "April 21, 2019"

Bss, Dhaka

PM tells during her meet with UAE State Minister Reem Ebrahim Al Hashimy

File photo of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday reiterated her firm stance on Rohingya repatriation, saying the forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals must go back to their homeland.

“The Rohingya nationals, who took shelter in Bangladesh, must return to their homeland in Myanmar’s Rakhaine State,” she said when visiting UAE Minister of State for International Cooperation Reem Ebrahim Al Hashimy paid a courtesy call on her at her official residence, the Gono Bhaban, in the capital last evening.

The World’s Largest Refugee Camp: Life in Cox’s Bazar

BORGEN Magazine
on April 15, 2019

SEATTLE, Washington — In August 2017, the world watched in horror as the Myanmar military unleashed a brutal campaign in the country’s Rakhine state. Targeting the Rohingya people, a Muslim ethnic minority, the attacks killed an unknown number of men, women and children. Reports of widespread sexual violence, torture and scorched earth tactics drew international condemnation in what the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCR) called a “’textbook example’ of ethnic cleansing.” The majority of Rohingya refugees are currently living in Cox’s Bazar, a refugee camp in Bangladesh. Although these refugees are now safe from the violence in Myanmar, life in Cox’s Bazar is far from easy.

Chickenpox, The Latest Burden On The Rohingya Refugees

 n  p  r
Jason Beaubien
Global Health and Development Correspondent
April 11, 2019

Sodul Amin, 30, is one of tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees who've gotten chickenpox since December. The highly contagious disease spreads easily in the overcrowded refugee camps.

Jason Beaubien/NPR 

At a small health clinic in the Kutupalong refugee camps in Bangladesh, Somadu Katu is clutching her 3 ½-year-old son, Yassin.

Yassin is wailing. He's running a fever and there are small red dots all over his body. Katu is terrified.

Efforts Underway to Help Rohingya in Bangladesh Weather Next Monsoon Season

VOA
East Asia
April 06, 2019 9:46 AM
Lisa Schlein

FILE - Rohingya refugee women carry baskets of dried out mud from the riverbed to help raise the ground level of their camp in preparation for monsoon season, in Shamlapur refugee camp, in Cox's Bazaar, Bangladesh, March 24, 2018.

GENEVA —
The U.N. refugee agency UNHCR and partners are scaling up emergency preparations to help hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees withstand a second monsoon season in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.

Bangladeshi PM calls for safe repatriation of Rohingya.

Anadolu Agency

Md. Kamruzzaman |03.04.2019

Locals suffering due to huge number of Rohingya in Cox's Bazar, with some 40,000 newborn babies in the refugee camps

Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina

DHAKA, Bangladesh

Bangladesh called for the safe and quick repatriation of Rohingya refugees who have taken shelter in makeshift camps in southern Cox’s Bazar district, local media reported.

"It will be good for all if the Rohingya can be repatriated to their own country as soon as possible, ensuring [their] safety and security," Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said Tuesday while receiving newly appointed British High Commissioner to Dhaka Robert Chatterton Dickson at her official residence.

US welcomes govt promises of Rohingyas' voluntary relocation to Bhashan Char

DhakaTribune
 Published at March 13th, 2019

 Before Bangladesh, no other country came to their aid MAHMUD HOSSAIN OPU

The government plans to relocate up to 100,000 Rohingyas to Bhashan Char, as early as mid-April

US Ambassador to Bangladesh Earl R Miller has welcomed the government’s assurances that any relocation of Rohingyas to Bhashan Char Island, will be completely voluntary, based on informed consent.

Rohingya militants condemn violence in refugee camps amid reports of killings

KFGO
FM Fargo-Moorhead
Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Rohingya refugees gather at a market inside a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, March 7, 2019.              REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain

YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's Rohingya militants urged their followers on Wednesday to refrain from crime in Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh, following reports of killings and abductions attributed to the group, the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA).

Minister: Bangladesh Spends $300 Million Per Month on Rohingya Refugees

Benar News

Jesmin Papri, Dhaka
2019-03-08

Rohingya children play at the Balukhali refugee camp in Ukhia, Bangladesh, Feb. 4, 2019.

Bangladesh spends U.S. $300 million monthly to host Rohingya refugees, its foreign minister said Friday, explaining why the country would no longer take in more people from the stateless group, as Dhaka had announced at the United Nations last week.

Myanmar should allow Rohingyas to return: Hasina.

Khaleej Times

By Anjana Sankar /Abu Dhabi, February 19, 2019

(Agencies)

More than 700,000 Rohingya refugees crossed over to Bangladesh in 2017.

Visiting Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said that Myanmar should take the responsibility and allow the Rohingya refugees to return as they are their citizens.

"We already have signed an agreement with the Myanmar government and they agreed to take them back. Unfortunately it did not happen. We could not implement it," said Hasina in an interview with Khaleej Times on Tuesday.