Nationwide drive to generate donations for Rohingya refugees

GULF NEWS
Published:  May 23, 2019   
Anwar Ahmad, Staff Reporter

1.2m refugees, in which 720,000 are children, 240,000 women and 48,000 elderly

 Fahd Abdul Rahman and Mehmoud Abdullah Al Junaibi from Emirates Red Crescent Authority brief the media on the Rohingya humanitarian camapign, in Abu Dhabi. Image Credit: Ahmed Kutty/Gulf News 

Abu Dhabi: More than a million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are slated to benefit from the latest humanitarian campaign of the Emirates Red Crescent Authority after it launched a nationwide drive to generate donations for them in Abu Dhabi on Thursday.

The grim reality behind Rohingya crisis rhetoric

THE NATION
Opinion
May 22, 2019 01:00
By Mohammad Zaman

Repatriation to Myanmar is nowhere in sight as threat of disease and hostility from local hosts rises

There are over a million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh – the latest batch of 800,000 came after August 25, 2017, joining 250,000 that had arrived since the first exodus of mid-1990s. As Myanmar nationals, Rohingya Muslims have historically faced ethnic and religious persecution, culminating in 2017 in a fierce, protracted genocidal campaign by the Myanmar army against its own people. The military launched a violent crackdown leading to arbitrary killings of Rohingya, including children and the elderly, gang rape of women, inhuman torture, and razing of village after village that forced communities to seek shelter in Bangladesh, unleashing a humanitarian crisis unprecedented in recent history.

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

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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.

Testimony of a Rohingya refugee in Bangladesh in 1978.

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ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ရွိ နီလာ ဒုကၡသည္စခန္းသို့ ေရာက္ရွိေနေသာ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာတိုင္းရင္းသား သန္႔စင္စစ္ဆင္ေရး "နဂါးမင္း" ၏ အစိတ္အပိုင္းတစ္ရပ္အျဖစ္ ၿမန္မာအာဏာပိုင္မ်ားက ၿပီးခဲ့သည့္ ေဖေဖာ္ဝါရီလကတည္းက ၿမန္မာနိုင္ငံထဲက ေနေမာင္းထုတ္မြတ္စလင္လူနည္းစုမ်ား။ ၂၂ ႏွစ္ အရြယ္ရွိ ၿမန္မာေက်ာင္းသား တဦး ၿဖစ္သည့္ ေမာင္ေက်ာ္နုက ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံတြင္ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာမ်ားကို ဆန္႔က်င္ က်ဴးလြန္ခဲ့တဲ့ရက္စက္ယုတ္မာမွဳ မုဒိမ္းမႈ၊ ႏွိပ္စက္ညႇင္းပန္းမွဳမ်ားၿဖစ္သည့္ လူမိ်ဳးတုန္း သတ္ၿဖတ္ ေနမွဳမ်ားကို ေဆြးေနြးေနပံု။
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In Bangladesh, refugee camps of the Rohingya Muslim minority have been expelled from Burma since last February by the Burmese authorities as part of the "Dragon" ethnic cleansing operation. In Nila camp, a 22-year-old Burmese student, Maung KYAWNA, discusses the abuses against the Rohingya people in Burma: rape, torture, which he calls... 

Link:https://www.ina.fr/video/I17248665/temoignage-d-un-refugie-rohingya-au-bangladesh-video.html

The accidental city: For scores of Rohingya refugees, a safe camp is hardly a home

THE GLOBE AND MAIL
Nathan VanderKlippe Asia correspondent
COX’S BAZAR, BANGLADESH
Published May 11, 2019

Hundreds of thousands of refugees from Myanmar are busy setting up their lives in a corner of Bangladesh. They have escaped brutal repression and any talk of being repatriated is dismissed: the Rohingya simply do not trust the regime in the country they fled. But no one knows where they will settle for good, and finding hope for the future feels impossible for many. Photography by Mohammad Ponir Hossain .

Aid workers fear that Rohingya camps near Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, will become like a tiny, crowded Gaza: where refugees tainted by discontent and violence live within high fences indefinitely. MOHAMMAD PONIR HOSSAIN/The Globe and Mail

 

Building a Better Future for Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh

INTERNATIONAL 

  Crisis 

  Group 

25 April 2019

'Do not forget the Rohingya': UN urges support for refugees

Aljazeera 
28 April, 2019


Top UN officials call for generosity from world to help Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh camps.

Bangladesh wants to move 100,000 of the Rohingya refugees sheltered in camps to a cyclone-prone island [Dar Yasin/AP]

Top United Nations officials have urged the international community not to forget the plight of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh and called for global support to ensure their safe and voluntary return to Myanmar.

Rape, abuse, violence: Rohingya women and girls most vulnerable in refugee camps

Star2.com

April 26, 2019

By S. INDRAMALAR

Photos By The Star/Azhar Mahfof

Young mother Senoura is trying the best she can to make sure her baby is not malnourished. But with hardly any money, depending only on food rations, she is worried for her young one.

Every morning, 20-year-old Gulbahar rushes to finish her housework and cook for her family so she can spend more time at the Safe Space for Women and Girls, a women-only space supported by Unicef at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.

The safe space, she says, is more than just a respite from the harsh conditions in the camp (and the tiny shelter she lives in). In that female-only space, Gulbahar is being empowered and equipped with vocational skills that she never thought she’d have the chance to acquire.

UN humanitarian leaders highlight urgent need to sustain support for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh

UNHCR UK

26 April 2019 

 Joint UNHCR/IOM/OCHA Press Release

At the end of a joint visit to Bangladesh, three top United Nations officials – the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock, Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) António Vitorino, and UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi – today reiterated their commitment to keep working toward safe and sustainable solutions in Myanmar for Rohingya refugees and noted the UN efforts there to help create conditions conducive to return. Meanwhile, they called on the international community to continue supporting the critical needs of 1.2 million people in south-eastern Bangladesh, mostly Rohingya refugees but also including generous host communities.

Rohingya refugee youth celebrate storytelling success

The Daily Star
Monday, "April 22, 2019"
Star Online Report

30 Rohingya refugees have graduated from the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Storytellers programme in a ceremony featuring special guest Raba Khan.

WFP provides food assistance to almost 900,000 Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar. For the first time, WFP, with support from BRAC, has trained some of these men and women in digital storytelling so that they can share their stories with the world, according to a press release from WFP. 

Bangladesh paying a price for hosting refugees

ASIATIMES  

ByBertil Lintner, Chiang Mai

April 22, 2019

 Rohingya refugees take shelter at a school in Kutupalong refugee camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on October 21, 2017. Photo: Reuters

The loss of forests and the ecological damage caused by almost one million refugees has taken a toll

Bangladesh is paying a heavy price for hosting hundreds of thousands of Muslim Rohingya refugees from Myanmar.

According to an article on the Bangladesh Chronicle’s website on April 20, the country has already lost US$211 million worth of forest resources in the Ukhia and Teknaf areas near Cox’s Bazar, where camps have been built and new roads cut through previously uninhabited areas.

Sheikh Thani Bin Abdullah Bin Thani Al-Thani in landmark $35m donation for the displaced through UNHCR’s Zakat programme

UNHCR  | UK
16 April 2019   |

UNHCR receives landmark $35 million donation for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh and displaced Yemenis.  © UNHCR/Susan Hopper

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, announced today a major individual contribution of more than $35 million from Qatari businessperson Sheikh Thani Bin Abdullah Bin Thani Al-Thani for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh and displaced Yemenis.

Rohingya refugee and Bangladeshi women weave a brighter future

UNHCR UK
By Caroline Gluck
Ukhiya and Kutupalong,
16 April 2019

A skills programme promotes self-reliance and aims to transform the lives of rural women in south-eastern Bangladesh.

Rohingya refugee Mushida holds her daughter Sharmin while learning to embroider in Kutupalong refugee camp.

In a bamboo thatched women’s centre in Kutupalong, more than a dozen Rohingya refugees are sitting closely together on mats and concentrating so fiercely on their sewing that barely a sound can be heard.
Only the encouraging murmurs of a trainer who checks on their progress break the silence of the focused women.

Donate and help renew hope for refugee children

NEW
STRAITSTIMES  

By Beatrice Nita Jay, Aliah Zefri And Nor Aziah 

April 12, 2019

KUALA LUMPUR: When actress Lisa Surihani visited the child-friendly space at Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh, her heart sank when she was shown drawings by the refugee children when they first arrived at the settlement.

Rohingya refugees and the environment

Science
Science 12 Apr 2019:
Vol. 364, Issue 6436, pp. 138
DOI: 10.1126/science.aaw9474

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THE TIMES
Richard Lloyd Parry, Asia Editor
The Times, April 9 2019,
Asia

Rohingya refugees arrive in Bangladesh after a long and dangerous journeyTIMES PHOTOGRAPHER JACK HILL 

Rohingya refugees are embarking on perilous sea crossings to escape from the refugee camps in Bangladesh into which they have been forced after fleeing oppression in their native Burma.

The authorities in Malaysia announced yesterday that they had detained 41 Rohingya Muslims, the third group to be intercepted in two weeks and a sign of increasing desperation among those displaced from Rakhine state in Burma. 

Bangladesh police stop 115 Rohingya refugees seeking to reach Malaysia

Prothum Alo------ 
AFP |
Publication date 08 April 2019 |

Bangladesh police have prevented 115 Rohingya refugees from being smuggled to Malaysia in rickety fishing boats, officials said on Saturday, but no suspected traffickers were detained.

The group from the Kutupalong camp near Bangladesh’s border with Myanmar – the biggest refugee settlement in the world – were stopped as they headed to boats in the Bay of Bengal.

I was sold seven times, says Rohingya refugee

FMT
Ainaa Aiman

April 7, 2019 

 

                         Rohigya refugee Ziaur Rahman tells of the horrors of life as a victim of human traffickers.

PETALING JAYA: Rohingya refugee Ziaur Rahman, then 20, was kidnapped while he was walking around his settlement in Bangladesh and sold a total of seven times over the next three months.

He said he was kidnapped by people who were themselves from the refugee camps. “They mix around with the Bangladeshi and Myanmarese and Rohingyas. You cannot identify them,” he said.

Rohingya Refugees Lost Between Languages In Bangladesh

WORLDCRUNCH 

NEWS DEEPLY
2019-04-05

A Rohingya refugee looking over Cox's Bazar refugee camp in Bangladesh - Zakir Hossain/Chowdhury/ZUMA      

Caught between a host country trying to hinder their integration and a home country holding back their return, Rohingya children find themselves in linguistic limbo.

COX'S BAZAR — When Mohammed Reyas works on his math classwork, his mind splits among multiple languages.

The 11-year-old, a Rohingya refugee from Myanmar, starts counting in Burmese: "Tit, hnit, thone." He then switches to Bangla: "Char, panch, chhoy." Then Rohingya: "Hant, anchtho, no." Finally, he finishes in English: "Ten, eleven, twelve."

UN: Climate disasters imperil Bangladesh kids' lives, future

abc NEWS
By JULHAS ALAM Associated Press 
DHAKA, Bangladesh — 
Apr 5, 2019

A report by the U.N. children's agency says the lives and futures of more than 19 million Bangladeshi children are at risk from the impact of floods, cyclones and other environmental disasters linked to climate change

(The Associated Press) FILE - In this June 4, 2018, file photo, Bangladeshi children sit on garbage piled up by the river Buriganga in Hazaribagh area in Dhaka, Bangladesh. A new report by the United Nations children’s agency says the lives and futures of more than 19 million Bangladeshi children are at risk from colossal impacts of devastating floods, cyclones and other environmental disasters linked to climate change. The UNICEF report released Friday, April 5, 2019 said the tally includes Rohingya refugee children from Myanmar who are living in squalid camps in southern Bangladesh.( AP Photo/