Rohingya refugees in peril in Bangladesh as support wanes: UN

AL Jazeera
11 Jul 2025

 The US and other Western countries have been reducing their funding, prioritising their defence spending instead.

Rohingya refugees gather to collect relief materials from a distribution point in the Kutupalong Refugee Camp in Ukhia in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar district on March 6, 2025. [AFP]

The plight of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh could rapidly deteriorate further unless more funding can be secured for critical assistance services, according to the United Nations refugee agency.

Rohingya Muslims cling to life in refugee camps

DAILY SABAH
Jul 02, 2025 

Rohingya Muslims in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar Kutupalong Refugee Camp struggle to survive amid harsh conditions, facing growing difficulties accessing food, health care and shelter as international aid declines. 

Rohingya refugee food aid to be halved from next month: UN

FRANCE 24
06/03/2025 

Bangladesh (AFP) – Rations will be halved for around one million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh from next month due to a lack of funds, the United Nations food agency has said. 

Huge numbers of the persecuted and stateless Rohingya community live in squalid relief camps in Bangladesh, almost entirely dependent on limited humanitarian aid to survive © Ed JONES / AFP

Huge numbers of the persecuted and stateless Rohingya community live in squalid relief camps in Bangladesh, most arriving after having fled from a 2017 military crackdown in neighbouring Myanmar.

Successive aid cuts have already caused severe hardship among Rohingya in the overcrowded settlements, who are reliant on aid and suffer from rampant malnutrition.

Two boats with more than 260 Rohingya refugees arrives in Indonesia’s coast

AP
By RAHMAT MIRZA and EDNA TARIGAN
January 6, 2025

LHOKSEUMAWE, Indonesia (AP) — More than 260 weak and hungry Rohingya refugees, mostly women and children, have landed in Indonesia in two boats, officials said Monday.

Over 200 Rohingya refugees arrive in Indonesia by boat, officials say

Amu TV
Siyar Sirat
January 6, 2025 

More than 200 Rohingya refugees arrived by boat in Indonesia’s Aceh Province over the weekend, local officials said on Monday, amid a growing number of maritime arrivals by the stateless population in Southeast Asia.

Over 100 Rohingya refugees rescued after boat sinks off Indonesia: UN

TRT World
30.11.2024

The flimsy wooden boat carrying the Rohingyas was found half-submerged not far from the beach off the coast of northeastern Sumatra island. 

Rohingya refugees stand on a capsized boat as Indonesian Search and Rescue boat approaches to rescue them, in the waters of West Aceh, Indonesia, March 21, 2024. / Photo: Reuters

More than 100 Rohingya refugees including women and children have been rescued after their boat sank off the coast of Indonesia, the United Nations refugee agency said.

Rohingya refugee finds safety after limbs hacked off

EXAMINER
By Farid FaridUpdated
November 5 2024

Rohingya refugee Mohammed Ismail lost an arm and a leg after he was attacked by militia. Photo: Farid Farid/AAP PHOTOS

In a brazen and bloody assault hours before dawn that he barely survived, axe and knife wielding militias chopped off Mohammed Ismail's left arm and left leg.

 

Thai suspects arrested over Rohingya refugee deaths

mizzima
November 3, 2024 

AFP

Thai police arrested a trio suspected people smugglers over the deaths of three Rohingya refugees who suffocated in the back of trucks in Thailand, officers said Saturday.

Three Rohingya refugees died and six were injured after traffickers allegedly packed 26 people who had made their way across the Thai-Myanmar border into two vehicles.

Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh Pressured to Join Myanmar’s Civil War

THE I DIPLOMAT
By Dayna Santana Pérez
June 21, 2024

After the midday prayers on a hot Wednesday, Hussain* was summoned by an armed group to a “community meeting” in his block within the world’s largest refugee settlement.

Once-Welcomed Rohingya Refugees Now Face Hostility From The Hosts In Bangladesh

Eurasia Review
May 30, 2024

The hosts, the Bangladeshi Muslim population, have expressed an alarming level of hostility towards the Rohingya refugees due to their extended stay and its subsequent negative consequences, like competition over limited resources. CREDIT: Yuki Higuchi from Sophia University, Japan

The number of refugees has sharply increased in recent decades, reaching 37.8 million in 2022. Amidst this surge, host communities—locals residing in areas where refugee camps are situated—are also positively and negatively impacted by the refugee influxes. The negative impacts include competition over scarce resources and in the unskilled labor market. While the international media and aid organizations put the spotlight on assisting refugees, the challenges faced by host communities are frequently sidelined.

At least 5 Rohingya refugee boats detected off Indonesian coast

FOX NEWS
December 21, 2023 

Muslim-majority Indonesia is a common destination for refugees fleeing Burmese oppression

 

Indonesian authorities detected at least five boats packed tight with refugees approaching shores of Aceh province, officials said Thursday.

The boats are the latest in a surge of vessels that have arrived in Aceh, most carrying Rohingya refugees from southern Bangladesh, where the persecuted Muslim minority fled in 2017 following attacks by the military in their homeland of Burma.

Refugees escape Cox's Bazar

DW
December 3'2023

However, life has remained difficult for the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, as they lack food, security, education, and work opportunities in the crowded camps.

A report by Human Rights Watch published this year said criminal gangs and affiliates of Islamist armed groups were causing fear at night in the refugee camps in Cox's Bazar.

A 19-year-old Rohingya refugee who recently arrived in Aceh province with her family told the AFP news agency that criminals in Cox's Bazar threatened her and her family every day, and she paid over $1,800 (€1,640) for the boat journey to Indonesia.

74 Rohingya held from UP for staying without valid papers

The Indian EXPRESS

Written by Amit Sharma
Meerut | July 25, 2023 

Of those arrested, 55 are men, 14 women and five minors, the ATS said.

The operation was carried out in six districts and the majority of the arrests were made in Mathura followed by Aligarh (17), Hapur (16), Ghaziabad (4), Meerut (4) and Saharanpur (2). (Representational Image)

 

The Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) of the Uttar Pradesh Police on Sunday night arrested 74 Rohingya Muslims who allegedly entered India from Myanmar and Bangladesh illegally before reaching various districts of western parts of the state.

Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh: Myanmar military pursues repatriation project

Aljzeera
May 31, 2023

Delegates from Myanmar's government have visited Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh as part of a repatriation scheme. It's the second such visit in the past three months. Both countries want to send more than 1,000 Rohingya to Myanmar. Some refugees say they've been pressured into signing repatriation documents. About a million fled Myanmar in 2017 after a military crackdown. Al Jazeera's Tanvir Chowdhury spoke to Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar, where few trust the repatriation plan. And live to talk with us is Nay San Lwin, a Burmese human rights activist and co-founder of the Free Rohingya coalition.

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UN To Cut Food Rations Again For Rohingya Refugees In Bangladesh

euroasiareview
BenarNews
Kamran Reza Chowdhury and Abdur Rah
May 24, 2023

Rohingya children look at food offered at a shop in the Leda refugee camp in Teknaf, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Photo Credit: Abdur Rahman/BenarNews

 

The United Nations food agency is reducing rations for Rohingya in Bangladesh for the second time this year citing a funds shortage, a move that refugees fear could push them to the brink of starvation.

Starting June 1, the World Food Program will cut food aid to U.S. $8 a month per person from $10 – after having cut the monthly food ration from $12 in March – marking a total decline of 33% to date this year, a Bangladeshi official confirmed on Tuesday.

UN denied access to Rohingya refugee camps after Cyclone Mocha

The Guardian
Aung Naing Soe and Kaamil Ahmed
Fri 19 May 2023

UNHCR says Myanmar government has refused to allow it to distribute health supplies in Sittwe, where an estimated 90% of Rohingya homes have been destroyed

A Rohingya woman sits by what remains of her home at Basara refugee camp in Sittwe after Cyclone Mocha hit the region. Photograph: Sai Aung Main/AFP/Getty Images

UN staff say they have been denied access to help thousands of Rohingya living in displacement camps in Myanmar who are in urgent need of food, medicine and shelter in the aftermath of Cyclone Mocha, which struck the west of the country on Sunday.

‘They are fighting each other’: Hasina highlights conflicts among Rohingya refugees

bdnews24.com

News Desk bdnews24.com
Published : 8 March 2023

The prime minister sheds light on the Myanmar refugee crisis in an interview in Qatar

Sheikh Hasina has highlighted the conflicts among the Myanmar Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh, reiterating her concerns over regional security.

The prime minister shed light on the crisis in an interview with Al Jazeera during her visit to Qatar to attend the Fifth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries in Doha, state news agency Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha reported on Wednesday.

Will the UN’s plea to help Rohingya refugees be answered?

Aljazeera
By Inside Story
Published On 7 Mar 2023

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The UN is appealing to global powers to help Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.

The United Nations is appealing for nearly $900m to help Rohingya refugees who have fled to Bangladesh from their native Myanmar.

So, how will the international community respond?

And can the Rohingya ever hope for an end to the stateless limbo they’re trapped in?

US-Myanmar-Bangladesh: Humanitarian Significance Of US Rohingya Rehabilitation Announcement – OpEd

eurasiareview
By Samina Akhter
December 6, 2022

US State Department Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees and Immigration Julieta Valls Noyes promoting gender-based violence Safe from the Start Revisioned initiative at Cox’s Bazar. Photo Credit: US State Department

According to the announcement of the State Department, US State Department Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees and Immigration Julieta Valls Noyes arrived in Bangladesh on a four-day visit on Saturday (December 03). She visits the Rohingya camp in Cox’s Bazar. Considering the humanitarian crisis in Myanmar, Valls Noyce will meet with government officials during her visit to Bangladesh for showing generosity by sheltering Rohingya and other refugees. She will also meet with the officials of private and international partner organizations to highlight the commitment of the United States to support the Rohingya refugees and the local people of the populated country who have received shelter in this country. On December 7, the US Assistant Secretary of State will leave Bangladesh for Thailand.

Twelve people missing after Rohingya refugee trawler sinks off Bangladesh

ALARABIA NEWS

AFP, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh
Published: 04 October ,2022 

File photo of Rohingya Muslims arriving on a boat from Myanmar to Bangladesh. (AP)

 

At least a dozen people were missing off the Bangladesh coast on Tuesday after a boat carrying Rohingya refugees sank in rough weather, the South Asian country’s coast guard said.

The fishing trawler left at dawn and was bound for Malaysia before it ran into trouble in the Bay of Bengal, with two search boats scrambling to rescue survivors.

“We have rescued 39 people including 35 Rohingya refugees and four Bangladeshis,” coast guard spokesman Lieutenant Al Amin told AFP.