UN appeals for $877m for Rohingya refugee response in Bangladesh

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 03 Mar 2020

Rohingya refugee children fly improvised kites at the Kutupalong refugee camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh Dec 10, 2017. REUTERS/FILE  

United Nations agencies and NGO partners have appealed for $877m for about 855,000 Rohingya refugees from Myanmar and 444,000 vulnerable Bangladeshis.

The 2020 Joint Response Plan, or JRP, for the Rohingya humanitarian crisis was launched on Tuesday, the UNHCR said in a statement on Tuesday.

Film on Rohingya refugees 'Kaattu Kadal Athirukal' set to release today

THE NEW INDIAN EXPRESS

31st January 2020 

Anu Mohan, Leona Lishoy, Kailash, Anil Murali, Dr. Anil Venugopal, and Saran play the principal characters along with a real-life Tibetan refugee named Dawa Lhamo. 

A film on Rohingya refugees, Kaattu Kadal Athirukal, is finally releasing in theatres today. Directed by Samad Mankada, the film produced by EK Shaji was cleared recently by the CBFC after omitting references to cows and the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB).

Anu Mohan, Leona Lishoy, Kailash, Anil Murali, Dr. Anil Venugopal, and Saran play the principal characters along with a real-life Tibetan refugee named Dawa Lhamo.

S. Korea to help Rohingya aiding 50,000 radios and related education

arirang 
2020-01-28

The South Korean government says it will give 50,000 radios to Rohingya Muslims resettling in Myanmar.
These radios are aimed at helping them access information on administrative, health and education matters, among others.
Seoul has invested 500-thousand U.S. dollars to help some 730-thousand Rohingyas, becoming the first country to participate in ASEAN's new support program for the minority group's resettlement.
Korea has been providing the Rohingyas over 16 million dollars via other international organizations. Reporter : 

Link :http://www.arirang.com/news/News_View.asp?nseq=251471

Will Rohingya be sent to a remote island?

Gulf Today

Shashank Bengali, Tribune News Service 

25 Jan 2020 

Rohingya refugees take part in a prayer as they gather to mark the second anniversary of the exodus at the Kutupalong camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Reuters 

 

The biggest refugee camps in the world, on a coastal strip in southern Bangladesh, house 1 million Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar in flimsy shacks vulnerable to flooding and deadly encounters with elephants.

Now Bangladesh says it has readied a new, purpose-built refugee settlement complete with concrete housing, flood defences, food warehouses, freshly paved roads, mosques and a solar grid.

Bhasan Char is ready to take in Rohingya refugees

AsiaNews.it
01/17/2020,

 

Bangladesh plans to move 100,000 refugees to reduce the pressure on overcrowded camps in Cox’s Bazar. The swampy island emerged in 2006 and is regularly hit by monsoons. The UN is not yet ready to endorse the relocation without visiting the island first. 

Dhaka (AsiaNews/Agencies) – Bhasan Char Island, in the Gulf of Bengal, is ready to receive 100,000 Rohingya refugees, said yesterday Mahbub Alam Talukder, Bangladesh Refugee, Relief and Repatriation Commissioner.

The island is subject to regular floods, but protection embankments have been built in the past few months to deal with the problem. Housing, shops and mosques have also been built.

Bangladesh: UNHCR Camp Settlement and Protection Profiling - Round 6 - November 2019

Duterte asks Malaysia, Indonesia to take in Rohingya refugees

GMA NEWS ONLINE

Published December 23, 2019 

By VIRGIL LOPEZ, GMA News 

 

President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday renewed his vow to accept Rohingya refugees and asked Malaysia and Indonesia to do the same.

Duterte made the pitch as he faced agrarian reform beneficiaries in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, a territory that saw decades of armed conflict linked to poverty and injustice.

Stay or go: For Rohingya refugees, a divisive debate over island camp plans

The New Humanitarian
Freelance journalist and regular TNH contributor
Kaamil Ahmed
Wednesday, 20 November 2019,

‘Every hour, you have a different thought about what's the best thing for your life.’

COX’S BAZAR

Ali Ahmed’s bamboo tea shop deep in Bangladesh’s Rohingya camps is a hub for debate and discussion for some of the hundreds of thousands of refugees living in these packed settlements.

Lately, the conversation has centred on one divisive issue: the government’s plans to transfer up to 100,000 refugees to Bhasan Char, a disaster-prone island near where Bangladesh’s Meghna River meets the Bay of Bengal.

Most Rohingya scoff at the idea of moving to a distant island exposed to cyclones and frequent floods. But in tea shops like Ahmed’s, the tone of these debates is changing.

Worn away by the grind of life in the camps and the dimming prospects of a safe return home more than two years after 700,000 Rohingya were pushed out of Myanmar, some refugees, Ahmed for one, are reconsidering their options.

Myanmar’s Neighbors Must Build Trust Among Rohingya Refugees

PassBlue
Noeleen Heyzer
November 10, 2019

The 35th Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit opening ceremony, Nov. 3, 2019. To help Rohingya refugees to return to Myanmar and rebuild their lives, the author of this essay urges Asean leaders to work more heartedly on gaining trust among the affected parties. 

At the 33d summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Singapore last year, the issue of Myanmar’s Rakhine/Rohingya crisis was high on the agenda. The chairman’s closing statement expressed the group’s readiness to support Myanmar in repatriating refugees by conducting a needs-assessment overview in Rakhine State. The Muslim Rohingya had fled ethnic persecution there, committed by the Burmese-led army.

Rohingya crisis: UN chief warns refugees must be repatriated to Myanmar safely

sky news
Sunday 3 November 2019

Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims fled Myanmar in 2017, after security forces began a campaign of murder in the area.

Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees fled Myanmar for Bangladesh

The head of the UN has called on Myanmar to take responsibility for hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees and work towards their safe return to the country from Bangladesh.

A wave of refugees began fleeing Myanmar in late August after its response to an attack by Rohingya militants on more than 20 police posts that the government said left 12 members of the security forces dead.

Photo album on Rohingya refugees unveiled

Dhaka Tribune

Tribune Report
November 3rd, 2019

 Guests at the launching ceremony of photo album ‘Rohingya: the stateless refugees in Bangladesh’ by Bayazid Akter at Bangladesh National Museum in Dhaka on Saturday, November 2, 2019 Mahmud Hossain Opu/Dhaka Tribune

Prolific photo journalist Bayazid Akter took the varied images of the forcibly displaced Rohingya people, and it was his 7th solo photography exhibition

A photo album on Rohingya people titled ‘Rohingya: the stateless refugees in Bangladesh’ by Bayazid Akter was unveiled at an event at Bangladesh National Museum in Dhaka on Saturday.

UAE-backed project bringing light to lives of Rohingya refugees

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Haneen Dajani
Oct 18, 2019
Thousands of displaced families at a refugee camp in Bangladesh are being supported by a campaign led by a winner of the Zayed Sustainability Prize

Sunna Design teamed up with Electricians Without Borders to bring light to refugee camps in Bangladesh. Courtesy Electricians Without Borders

Rohingya refugees have known only darkness for years, but finally many have a chance to step into the light thanks to a UAE-backed initiative.

In August 2017, hundreds of thousands of the Muslim-minority group were forced to flee their homes in Myanmar amid a brutal campaign of violence branded as ethnic cleansing and possible genocide by the United Nations.

eopardizing Safety, Security Of Rohingya Refugees

THE NEW NATION
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
Saleem Samad :

International rights groups have dubbed Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) as a rogue Islamic militant group, and responsible for series of crime against humanity in restive Rakhine State, Myanmar.

The ragtag radicalized militant's recruits from among Rohingyas under the leadership who were born and raised in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are creating law and order situation in the refugee camps in Bangladesh.

OPINION: ‘I escaped genocide but I cannot escape Australia’s immigration policies’

SBS Dateline
By JN Joniad
23 September 2019
 

In 1982, the Myanmar government introduced regulations denying citizenship to anyone who could not prove Burmese ancestry dating back to 1823. Now, the United Nations has officially called Rohingya a ‘stateless’ ethnicity. As of today, nearly one million Rohingyans have fled to Bangladesh since Myanmar’s military began ethnic cleansing. JN Joniad, a Rohingya man, told Dateline his story. 

 

In Myanmar, I was given a ‘White Card’. I needed this card to travel within my own town. I was banned from going to other cities and I couldn’t get a passport. I had, effectively, a temporary residency permit in my own country.

Rohingya refugees face mobile phone blackouts

Aljazeera
21 September 2019

The Bangladeshi government orders ban on the sale of SIM cards to a million Rohingya in the world’s biggest refugee camp. 

Last week, we received a WhatsApp message from a Rohingya refugee in Bangladesh. It may have been one of the last messages he could send.

A Million Rohingya Refugees Are About to Be Cut Off From the World

VICE
By David Gilbert
Sep 6 2019

In the world's largest refugee camp, the Bangladeshi government is moving to strip Rohingya of a essential lifeline: their cell phones.

Up to a million stateless Rohingya refugees are living in unsanitary and overcrowded conditions in the world’s largest refugee camp in Bangladesh, having fled persecution and violence in Myanmar over two years ago. 

Now, the Bangladeshi government wants to cut off one of their last links to the outside world.

The telecommunications minister has ordered the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC), with the help of mobile phone operators, to cut off cell phone service to Cox’s Bazarfrom Sunday, citing “public safety” and “state security” as reasons for taking the action.

Is public opinion turning?

Dhaka Tribune

Humayun Kabir Bhuiyan
August 27th, 2019

 The hill cutting and deforestation near Camp no 20 in Balukhali, Ukhiya in Cox’s Bazar, as seen on Sunday, to clear the way for more Rohingya refugee camps, poses a twofold threat: one to the environment, and another to the refugees themselves as these hills become more vulnerable to landslides Syed Zakir Hossain/Dhaka Tribune

Government appears helpless, at least for now

When the Rohingyas streamed into Bangladesh two years ago, fleeing the pogrom against them by the Myanmar military, sympathy for their plight was high in Bangladesh.

When the PM said a nation of 170 million could feed one million more in need, her words echoed the public sentiment, and were widely applauded.

Zakat fund raises $38.1 million for 648,476 refugees this year

GULF NEWS
UAE
Published:  August 26, 2019
Staff Report

UNHCR initiative expands to Bangladesh for the first time

 A Rohingya woman holds her son and daughter after being moved to a refugee camp in Bangladesh. Image Credit: AP 

Dubai: UNHCR’s Refugee Zakat Fund assisted 648,476 internally displaced people in the first half of the year.

According to a report released on Monday, $38.1 million was raised through global donors, surpassing the target of $26 million.

In Bangladesh refugee camps, Rohingya youth speak out

Frontier

MYANMAR

By CLARE HAMMOND | FRONTIER
Photos VICTORIA MILK

Monday 26 August 2019

After two years languishing in camps in Bangladesh, young, educated Rohingya are finding expression through writing… and demanding a say in decisions about their future.

‘The land where we lived has gone' – the life story of a Rohingya refugee

The Guardian
@Gay_Alcorn
Sun 4 Aug 2019

  Habiburahman ... “I am three years old and effectively erased from existence” he writes in his book.                                                   Photograph: Sophie Ansel

As a young man Habiburahman fled oppression in his native Myanmar and lives, stateless, in Australia. Now he has written a book about his struggle – and his suffering people.

“A tyrant leant over my cradle and traced a destiny for me that will be hard to avoid: I will either be a fugitive or I won’t exist at all.” – From First, They Erased Our Name: A Rohingya Speaks, by Habiburahman.

There has been much written about the Rohingya people of Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. The Muslim ethnic group has been persecuted for generations, most recently from 2017, when 800,000 picked up whatever they could carry to flee to Bangladesh. But little has been written from the point of view of a Rohingya growing up in Myanmar – the daily humiliations, the struggle for survival, the fear, the stories whispered through generations to ensure they are not lost. Habiburahman, known as Habib, was born in a village in the west of the country around 1979 – he is not quite sure of the year. He has written his life story, and through that, the story of his people.