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Dec 16, 2020
Wednesday, December 16, 2020
Video shows Rohingya refugees beaten by traffickers on boat
Commission redistributes nearly £200,000 to Rohingya refugees as two trustees are disqualified
The Commission has redistributed approximately £196,000 of the money Mr Mohammed Hasnath and Ms Ruksana Ali (the former trustees) raised and both have been removed as trustees from the fund and disqualified.
The former trustees operated two online fundraising platforms, creating a
fund for Rohingya refugees. Whilst they never registered the fund as a
charity, its stated purpose made it charitable under the law.
Friday, December 11, 2020
Fears of forced removals as Bangladesh moves hundreds of Rohingya refugees to remote island
KRDO
By CNNPublished December 8, 2020
A ship carrying 1642 refugees is traveling to Bhasan Char, an island about 40 kilometers (24 miles) off the coast near the city of Chittagong, according to Shahriar Alam, Bangladesh Minister of State for Foreign Affairs.
But human rights groups and the refugees themselves have long expressed concerns over the safety of the uninhabited, low-lying island, as it often becomes partially submerged during monsoon season and is vulnerable to cyclones.
Saturday, December 5, 2020
Fears of forced removals as Bangladesh moves hundreds of Rohingya refugees to remote island
Updated -December 5, 2020
Rohingya refugees ferried to floating Bangladesh island
About 700,000 Rohingya fled Myanmar in August 2017
DHAKA, Bangladesh — Authorities in Bangladesh on Friday sent the first group of more than 1,500 Rohingya refugees to an isolated island despite calls by human rights groups for a halt to the process.
The 1,642 refugees boarded seven Bangladeshi naval vessels in the port of Chittagong for the trip to Bhashan Char, according to an official who could not be named in accordance with local practice.
After about a three-hour trip they arrived at the island, which was once regularly submerged by monsoon rains but now has flood protection embankments, houses, hospitals and mosques built at a cost of more than $112 million by the Bangladesh navy.
Located 21 miles from the mainland, the island surfaced only 20 years ago and was never inhabited.
Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh Being Moved to Isolated Island in “Dangerous Mass Detention”
Friday, December 4, 2020
New Hope for Rohingya Refugees with Disabilities in Cox’s Bazar
Source IOM
3 Dec 2020
Anuara was born with a congenital limb defect but goes to great lengths to overcome her daily struggles. Photo: IOM/Monica Chiriac
Anaura is one of the 59 Rohingya refugees with disabilities who will receive assistive devices in the coming weeks. “I hope the wheelchair will be the right height for me, so I can get into the seat by myself,” she says. Most of the people with disabilities living in the camps have been disabled their entire lives, but have never owned an assistive device to facilitate their daily tasks.
Sunday, November 29, 2020
First Batch of Rohingyas set to move to Bangladesh island
By our correspondent in Dhaka
by Newsnext Bangladesh
November 28, 2020
in Migration
Wednesday, November 25, 2020
Owaisi challenges BJP to show names of 100 Rohingya refugees in voters
Chronicle
DECCAN CHRONICLE. | ATHER MOIN
Published Nov 23, 2020,
A BJP leader had claimed that 40,000 Rohingyas had succeeded in getting listed as voters
Saturday, November 14, 2020
Thursday, November 12, 2020
Korea gives $1 million to prevent gender-based violence in Cox’s Bazar
This assistance will help protect women, adolescents, and girls in the Rohingya refugee camp and the host community from gender-based violence and its consequences, especially amid the increasing gender-based violence cases in the prolonged Covid-19 pandemic, Korean embassy in Dhaka said in a statement today.
Tuesday, November 10, 2020
Thursday, November 5, 2020
UK Pledges to Support 860,000 Rohingya Refugees Amid Controversial Policies at Home
The UK has hardly thrown its arms open to refugees in 2020. Indeed, asylum seekers are perhaps more likely to be met with war ships than welcome banners. It’s led to Global Citizen launching a campaign urging people to write to their MP, asking them to offer safe passage.
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
EU mobilizes international donors to support Rohingya refugees and countries in the region
The EU mobilized a total of €96 million for Rohingya refugees in 2020 for humanitarian, development co-operation as well as conflict prevention support.
Representing the EU at the conference, Crisis Management Commissioner Janez Lenarčič said: “Today the international community came together to show its support and deliver further assistance to hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees and the communities hosting them. We must do all we can so the Rohingya crisis does not become a forgotten tragedy. At this difficult time, the EU continues to stand by the most vulnerable with this emergency humanitarian support.”
Wednesday, October 7, 2020
Australian Beauty Queen Fights to Raise Awareness for Rohingya Refugees
PRWIRE
Release from zanthii communications
2020/10/07
Australia's first Rohingya beauty queen, Pan Sandar Myint is advocating for hundreds of Rohingya refugees, who have arrived in Indonesia after six months at sea.
A wooden boat carrying 297
Rohingya refugees, including 14 children, was spotted several miles off
the coast of Lhokseumawe city on Sumatra's northern coast by local
fishermen in early September.
Wednesday, September 23, 2020
PH is willing to accept refugees, Duterte tells UN General Assembly
Reporter / @DJEsguerraINQ
INQUIRER.net
September 23, 2020
Duterte cited the Philippines’ history of opening its doors to the refugees — White Russians following the 1917 Revolution, European Jews during the Second World War, Vietnamese during the Vietnam War in the late 1960s, and Iranians displaced by the 1979 revolution.
Wednesday, June 10, 2020
Bangladesh says will not take Rohingya refugees detained in Malaysia
Wednesday, 10 Jun 2020
DHAKA, June 10 — Bangladesh said Tuesday it would refuse to take back 269 Rohingya refugees detained by the Malaysian coastguard while they were adrift on a damaged boat.
“Bangladesh will not take them. Bangladesh is neither obligated nor in a position to take any more Rohingya,” Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen told Anadolu Agency.
Malaysia on Monday detained 269 Rohingya refugees and found a dead body on a damaged boat off the resort island of Langkawi.