Missing From a U.N. Meeting on Helping Refugees? The Refugees.

The NewYork Times
By Verena Hölzl
Sept. 29, 2025,

World leaders will discuss how to assist the Rohingya in the world’s largest refugee settlement. But no one living there is attending the conference at the United Nations.

Rohingya refugees at a camp near Amtoli, Bangladesh, in 2017.Credit...Adam Dean for The New York Times

They live in the world’s largest collection of refugee camps, which they are rarely allowed to leave. Their shops there have been bulldozed and their schools closed. In their homeland, warring factions seem to agree only on a shared contempt for the stateless exiles.

Rohingya conference pledges to ‘remain steadfast’ in finding solutions to crisis

UN News

22 October 2020
Migrants and Refugees

UNHCR/Vincent Tremeau
A young Rohingya girl holds her brother outside a youth club in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.

A joint UN-hosted donor conference to rally international support behind Myanmar’s displaced Rohingya minority, ended on Thursday with a promise to continue engaging with concerned countries towards finding a long-term solution to their plight.

“We will continue to work together to maintain international attention on the Rohingya crisis and to shift from short-term critical interventions, to a more sustained and stable support”, said the closing statement from co-hosts the UN refugee agency (UNHCR), the European Union (EU), United Kingdom and United States.