UNHCR grants refugee status to 99 Rohingya migrants in Aceh

ANTARA NEWS
23rd July 2020

Rohingya refugees in Aceh. ANTARA PHOTO/Rahmad/wsj

The UNHCR officials have completed the registration of the 99 Rohingya migrants Jakarta (ANTARA) - The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)-Indonesia Office officially granted refugee status to 99 Rohingya migrants that three Acehnese fishermen had rescued on humanitarian grounds in June, Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi stated.

"The UNHCR officials have completed the registration of the 99 Rohingya migrants," Marsudi told journalists at a virtual press conference in Jakarta on Thursday.

Harrowing stories remain unheeded

theSundaily
Nutmeg Verses - Himanshu Bhatt  

19 Jul 2020

MUNAWIR, a Rohingya man in his 20s, was at home in Sittwe, a district in Rakhine state of Myanmar, when his neighbourhood was attacked and houses there burnt by assailants. Eighteen people were killed in the ensuing massacre, including his two brothers.

Seeing his desperation, an agent later persuaded him to board a ship to Malaysia, promising him a better life and assuring that he did not have to pay anything.

However, once Munawir was on the small vessel, a gang approached his mother in Sittwe to demand 600,000 Burmese kyat (RM2,000) for his journey, which she fearfully paid. 

ပဋိပက္ခအတွင်း လိင်ပိုင်းဆိုင်ရာအကြမ်းဖက်မှု လုံခြုံရေး ကောင်စီစကားဝိုင်းမှာ ဆွေးနွေး

လွတ်လပ်တဲ့အာရှအသံ ( RFA )
မြန်မာဌာန | သတင်းများ
ရဲခေါင်မြင့်မောင်
2020-07-17
ၿမန်မာနိုင်ငံအပါအဝင် ကမ္ဘာတဝှမ်းက ပဋိပက္ခတွေအတွင်းမှာ အမျိုးသမီးတွေနဲ့ ကလေးငယ်တွေအပေါ် လိင်ပိုင်းဆိုင်ရာ အကြမ်းဖက်ခံရတဲ့ ဖြစ်ရပ်တွေအတွက် ကျူးလွန်သူတွေကို အပြစ်ပေး အရးယူမှုမရှိဘဲ ဖြစ် နေတဲ့အကြောင်း ကုလသမဂ္ဂအထူးသံတမန် အိန်ဂျလီနာဂျိုလီက မနေ့က ကျင်းပတဲ့ ကုလသမဂ္ဂလုံခြုံရေး ကောင်စီက ကြီးမှူးကျင်းပတဲ့ စကားဝိုင်းဆွေးနွေးပွဲမှာ ပြောလိုက်ပါတယ်။

25 Rohingya children arrived in Aceh without parents: Retno Marsudi

ANTARA NEWS
9th July 2020

Volunteers of the Indonesian Red Cross (PMI) in Lhokseumawe, Aceh, distribute basic necessities, such as food and clothes for prayers, to Rohingya refugees. ANTARA/HO-The Indonesian Red Cross (PMI) Public Relations 

" There are 25 children, aged 5-17 years, (who have) arrived without accompanying families in this group"

Jakarta (ANTARA) - Twenty-five Rohingya children, aged between 5 and 17 years, who are currently being sheltered in Aceh arrived without their parents, according to Indonesian Foreign Affairs Minister Retno Marsudi.

"There are 25 children, aged 5-17 years, (who have) arrived without accompanying families in this group," she told the press at the Presidential Palace here on Thursday.

Rohingya Refugee Response - Bangladesh LPG Distribution Tracking Dashboard 2020 (June 30, 2020)

Link:https://reliefweb.int/report/bangladesh/rohingya-refugee-response-bangladesh-lpg-distribution-tracking-dashboard-2020-1

We can't forget about humanity's most vulnerable

The Canberra Times

OPINION
Andrew Giles
June 19 2020

Rohingya Muslims who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, wait for their turn to collect food aid at the Cox's Bazar refugee camp in 2017. Picture: Shutterstock

It's said that crises expose and exacerbate existing structural weaknesses.

The COVID-19 pandemic is exposing and exacerbating one of our greatest weaknesses - the treatment of refugees and people seeking asylum around the world.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimates there are now more than 70 million forcibly displaced people worldwide, including almost 30 million refugees and more than 40 million who have fled to other parts of their own country. Last year more people were forcibly internally displaced than ever before.

Ismail Sabri: Foreign Ministry will contact UNHCR about Rohingya refugees

malaymail 

Tuesday, 09 Jun 2020
BY SOO WERN JUN

Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob said since the Malaysian government has decided not to accept the Rohingya refugees in Malaysia, the Foreign Ministry will contact the UNHCR to determine if other signatory countries of the Refugee Convention will accept them. — Reuters pic

KUALA LUMPUR, June 9 — The federal government will discuss with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) about the recent arrivals of Rohingya refugees in Langkawi, Kedah, said Senior Minister (Security Cluster) Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob.

He said since the Malaysian government has decided not to accept the Rohingya refugees in Malaysia, the Foreign Ministry will contact the UNHCR to determine if other signatory countries of the Refugee Convention will accept them.

ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္စခန္းမွာ ကိုရိုနာဗိုင္းရပ္စ္ေၾကာင့္ ပထမ ဆုံးေသဆုံးသူ ေတြ႕ရွိရ

လြတ္လပ္တဲ့အာရွအသံ ( RFA )
ျမန္မာဌာန | သတင္းမ်ား
2020.06.02


အူခီးယာ ဒုကၡသည္စခန္းမွာ ကိုရိုနာဗိုင္းရပ္စ္ကူးစက္ခံေနရတဲ့ အသက္ ၇၁ ႏွစ္ရွိ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္ အမ်ိဳး သားတဦး ၿပီးခဲ့တဲ့စေနေန႔က ေသဆုံးသြားခဲ့တာမွန္ကန္ေၾကာင္း ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္မွာရွိတဲ့ UNHCR ကုလသ မဂၢဒုကၡသည္မ်ားဆိုင္ရာ မဟာမင္းႀကီး႐ုံးေျပာေရးဆိုခြင့္ရွိသူ  Louise Donovan လူဝီးစ္ ဒိုနိုဗန္ က RFA ကို မေန႔က အတည္ျပဳေျပာၾကားပါတယ္။

ရခိုင်မြောက်ပိုင်းတွင် အစိုးရနှင့် ကုလအဖွဲ့များ ပူးပေါင်း ဆောင်ရွက်ရေး သက်တမ်းတိုး

ဧရာဝတီ

ထွန်းထွန်း

13 May 2020

ငါးခူရ အမှတ် ၂ စခန်းသို့ ပြန်လည်ဝင်ရောက်လာသူများ / Myanmar Embassy Dhaka

 

နေရပ်စွန့်ခွာသွားသူများ ပြန်လည်လက်ခံရေးနှင့် ဒေသတွင်း ဖွံ့ဖြိုးရေးစီမံချက်များ ပူးပေါင်းဆောင်ရွက်ရန် အစိုး ရနှင့် ကုလသမဂ္ဂ ဖွံ့ဖြိုးမှုအစီအစဉ် (UNDP) နှင့် ကုလသမဂ္ဂ ဒုက္ခသည်များဆိုင်ရာ အေဂျင်စီ (UNHCR) တို့အကြား တနှစ်သက်တမ်းတိုး နားလည်မှုစာချွန်လွှာအား မေလ ၁၁ ရက်နေ့က နေပြည်တော်တွင် လက်မှတ်ရေး ထိုးခဲ့သည်။

အစိုးရနဲ႔ ကုလအဖြဲ႕ေတြ ရခိုင္ေဒသအေရးေဆာင္ရြက္မႈ တစ္ႏွစ္ သက္တမ္းတိုး

လြတ္လပ္တဲ့အာရွအသံ ( RFA )
ျမန္မာဌာန | သတင္းမ်ားေက်ာ္လြင္ဦး

2020-05-12
 

■ ကုလသမဂၢဖြံ့ၿဖိဳးမႈအစီအစဥ္ UNDP နဲ႔ ကုလသမဂၢ ဒုကၡသည္မ်ားဆိုင္ရာေအဂ်င္စီ UNHCR တို႔ဟာ ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္ အတြင္း လူသားခ်င္းစာနာမႈ အကူအညီေပးေရးလုပ္ငန္းေတြ ဆက္လက္လုပ္ေဆာင္ဖို႔ ျမန္မာ အစိုးရနဲ႔ သေဘာတူ ထားတာကို တစ္ႏွစ္သက္တမ္းထပ္တိုးလိုက္တယ္လို႔ ေမ ၁၁ ရက္ေန႔ မေန႔က ေၾက ညာခဲ့ပါတယ္။

Rohingya Repatriation: UNDP, UNHCR, Myanmar extend MoU

THE ASIAN AGE

11 May 2020

The UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) on Monday agreed with the government of Myanmar to extend the tripartite Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for activities in Rakhine State amid no repatriation of Rohingyas from Bangladesh.

The MoU aims at helping create a conducive environment for the voluntary, safe, dignified and sustainable repatriation of Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh as well as supporting recovery and resilience-based development for the benefit of all communities living in the three northern townships of Rakhine State.

UNHCR opposes Rohingya transfers to Bhashan Char

Dhaka Tribune 

Humayun Kabir Bhuiyan 
  May 5th, 2020

File Photo: The photo, collected from project official Atikul Islam’s Facebook page, shows houses built under a project to accommodate Rohingya refugees in Bhashan Char, Noakhali, Bangladesh Collected

Like in the past, rescued Rohingyas could be in Cox’s Bazar, says UN refugee agency

The United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has voiced its opposition to the transfers of a group of Rohingyas rescued on Saturday by Bangladesh Coast Guard to Bhashan Char Island in Noakhali.

Home Ministry: Don’t make demands, Rohingya groups here illegal and can face action

malaymail  

Thursday, 30 Apr 2020
BY IDA LIM

Rohingya refugees are seen at a Rohingya settlement in Bandar Baru Sentul, Kuala Lumpur April 24, 2020. — Picture Hari Anggara

KUALA LUMPUR, April 30 — Any organisations representing the Rohingya community in Malaysia are invalid by law and will face government action as the Registrar of Societies had never registered any such organisations, the Home Ministry insisted today.

It also reiterated that Malaysia does not recognise the community as refugees but merely “illegal immigrants”, even if they hold the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) identification cards, and therefore have no rights to make demands to Putrajaya.

UNHCR expresses concern over failures to disembark vessels carrying Rohingyas

The Daily Star 
April 23, 2020 
Star Online Report

The UN Refugee Agency has expressed deep concerns over the reported failures of some nations to allow entry to some vessels carrying Rohingya refugees recently.

It did not mention the number of such vessels, but sources say two boats carrying some 500 Rohingyas have been in adrift in the sea for the last couple of weeks as Malaysia and Thailand have refused entry to those.

Camp Profiles - February 2020: Rohingya Refugee Response Bangladesh

UNHCR

5 Apr 2020

 

COX’S BAZAR, BANGLADESH Rohingya Refugees September 2019 Joint Multi-Sector Needs Assessment ,Published -12 Mar 2020

႐ုိဟင္ဂ်ာေတြေနရပ္ျပန္ေရး ျမန္မာလုပ္ေဆာင္မႈ ေႏွးေကြး ေၾကာင္း ကုလေျပာ

VOA

ဗြီအိုုေအ (ျမန္မာဌာန)

04 မတ္၊ 2020

႐ုိဟင္ဂ်ာေတြေနရပ္ျပန္လာေရးအတြက္ ေဆာက္ထားေသာ စခန္းမ်ား

ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ေရာက္ သိန္းနဲ႔ခ်ီတဲ့ ႐ုိဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္ေတြ ေနရပ္ျပန္ေရး ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ ဘက္က ႀကိဳး ပမ္း မႈေတြဟာ ေႏွးေကြးလြန္းတဲ့အေၾကာင္း ဒုကၡသည္မ်ားဆုိင္ရာ ကုလသမဂၢ မဟာမင္းႀကီးက ေျပာဆုိလုိက္ ပါတယ္။

ဒုကၡသည္ေတြ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ကေန ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံကုိျပန္ႏုိင္မယ့္ အေျခအေနေတြ ဖန္တီးတဲ့ ေနရာမွာ ေႏွး ေကြး လြန္းတာ၊ ဒါမွမဟုတ္ရင္လည္း ျဖစ္မလာေသးတဲ့အေၾကာင္း မဟာမင္းႀကီး Filippo Grandi က အဂၤါေန႔မွာ ေျပာဆုိလုိက္တာပါ။

Switzerland grants asylum to Arakan Army leader’s wife, children

MYANMAR TIMES

Swe Lei Mon 

27 Feb 2020

The wife and two children of Arakan Army (AA) leader General Tun Myat Naing have flown to Switzerland after being granted political asylum, the ethnic armed group said on Wednesday.

Khaing Thu Kha, AA spokesperson, said Ma Hnin Zar Phyu and her 11-year-old daughter and one-year-old son left Bangkok for Switzerland on Tuesday.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) arranged the asylum, he said.

“We are very thankful to the UNHCR, the friends who helped in this process, and the Thailand government, which acted humanely, not like the Singapore government,” he added.

Free Rohingya Coalition expresses gratitude to Maldives

THE Edition
Mariyam Malsa
27 February 2020,

Free Rohingya Coalition (FRC) expressed gratitude to Maldives over the government's decision to file a written declaration of intervention at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague in support of the persecuted Rohingya people.

Highlighting that the genocide against the Rohingya effectively began in 1978, Ro Nay san Lwin, a founder of FRC stated, "Your action today speaks louder than the countless statements about us which are issued. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts".

UNICEF Myanmar Humanitarian Situation Report #1 (January 2020)