Policy Seminar: The Forced Exile of Rohingyas into Bangladesh: Economic and Nutritional Outcomes and Future Policy Options

Policy Seminar: The Forced Exile of Rohingyas into Bangladesh: Economic and Nutritional Outcomes and Future Policy Options

‘Rohingya presence posing serious threat to host community’

The Daily Star 

May 09, 2019

Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) jointly organise a seminar titled “Forcibly Displaced Myanmar Nationals” at Lakeshore Hotel in Dhaka on Thursday, may 9, 2019. Photo: Collected

 

 

Leading economists and policy analysts have rejected the idea of providing Rohingya people with access to the local labour market in Cox’s Bazar and suggested quick repatriation of the Myanmar nationals to ease pressure on Bangladesh.

They said the international community should take responsibility as long as they stay here because their presence has already posed serious threats to the local environment and host communities.

United colours of discrimination

THE MOURNG EXPRESS
April 1, 2019
Morung Express News
Bali (Indonesia) | March 31

Khin Mg Myint, Kevin Halim, Nasreen Habib and Dena Rachman share experiences of discrimination at the regional seminar and workshop held for journalists in Bali from March 18-20. (Photo courtesy: the Journalists Association for Diversity, Sejuk)

Rohingya, Transgender, Assamese Bengali Muslim share stories as persecuted minorities 



It is genocide. Khin Mg Myint of the Harmony Working Group, Myanmar (Burma), shows no sign of doubt while speaking about the persecution that the Rohingya people from the Rakhine state of Myanmar have been undergoing for decades now.