U.N. refugee agency appeals for rescue of Rohingya stranded at sea

REUTERS
Reuters Staff
FEBRUARY 22, 2021 

(Reuters) - The United Nations refugee agency called on Monday for the immediate rescue of a group of Rohingya refugees adrift in their boat in the Andaman Sea without food or water, many of them ill and suffering from extreme dehydration.

FILE PHOTO: Rohingya refugees sit on a makeshift boat as they get interrogated by the Border Guard Bangladesh after crossing the Bangladesh-Myanmar border, at Shah Porir Dwip near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh November 9, 2017. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar/File Photo

The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said it did not know the exact location of the vessel and understood that some passengers had died. The boat had left southern Bangladesh about 10 days ago and experienced engine failure, it said.

“Immediate action is needed to save lives and prevent further tragedy,” UNHCR said in a statement, offering to support governments by providing humanitarian help to those rescued.

UNHCR appeals for immediate rescue of Rohingyas on sea

Dhaka TRibune

Humayun Kabir Bhuiyan
February 22nd, 2021

File photo: Locals evacuate Rohingya refugees from a boat at a coast of North Aceh, Indonesia, June 25, 2020 Reuters

Unspecified number of Rohingyas on Andaman Sea for over a week with some already dead while others in distress

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Monday appealed to the maritime states along the Andaman Sea for the immediate rescue of a group of Rohingyas refugees in distress.

ပင္လယ္ျပင္ထဲဒုကၡေရာက္ေနတဲ့ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာသေဘၤာ ကယ္ တင္ဖို႔ UNHCR တိုက္တြန္း

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ဗြီအိုေအ (ျမန္မာပုိင္း)
22 ေဖေဖာ္၀ါရီ၊ 2021

၂၀၂၀ ခုႏွစ္ ဧၿပီလတုန္းက ေတြ႔ခဲ့ရတဲ့ မေလးရွားေရပိုင္နက္အတြင္းက ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္သေဘၤာတစီး။ (ဧၿပီ ၀၅၊ ၂၀၂၀)

 

 

Andaman ပင္လယ္ထဲ စက္ေလွတစင္းေပၚမွာ ဒုကၡေရာက္ေနၾကတဲ့ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္ေတြကိုခ်က္ခ်င္း ကယ္ တင္ဖို႔ ဒုကၡသည္မ်ားဆုိင္ရာ ကုလသမဂၢေအဂ်င္စီ UNHCR က ေဖေဖာ္၀ါရီလ ၂၂ ရက္ေန႔မွာ ေၾကျငာခ်က္ ထုတ္ ေတာင္းဆိုလိုက္ပါတယ္။ အေရအတြက္အတိအက်မသိရတဲ့ ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြတင္လာတဲ့ စက္ေလွတစင္း ပင္လယ္ထဲမွာ အင္ဂ်င္ပ်က္ၿပီး အေရးေပၚ အကူအညီလိုအပ္ေနတယ္ဆိုတဲ့သတင္းကို ေဖေဖာ္၀ါရီလ ၂၀ ရက္ ေန႔မွာ ရခ့ဲတာလို႔ UNHCR ကေျပာပါတယ္။

Rohingya Refugee Response - Bangladesh Factsheet - Protection (December 2020)

UNHCR cardholders and Rohingya won't be sent home, says Immigration DG

The Star

JUSTIN ZACK

NATION

Monday, 15 Feb 2021

PETALING JAYA: No holders of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) cards or those from the Rohingya ethnic group will be sent home in the upcoming repatriation programme, says Immigration director-general, Datuk Khairul Dzaimee Daud.

"The Immigration Department refers to various media reports regarding the repatriation programme on Feb 23 using Myanmar Navy boats.

"No holders of UNHCR cards or Rohingya will be involved in this programme. This is a part of the regular repatriation exercises carried out by Immigration depots," he said in a statement on Monday (Feb 15). 

He added that those being sent back had offences such as not having identification documents, overstaying, and improper use of travel passes.

End of Year Report Field and Technical Units 2020: Rohingya Refugee Response - Bangladesh Field and Technical Units – End of Year Report 2020

UNHCR
18 Jan 2021

ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာေနအိမ္အလုံး ၅၅၀ ေက်ာ္ မီးေလာင္ပ်က္စီး

လြတ္လပ္တဲ့အာရွအသံ ( RFA )

ျမန္မာဌာန | သတင္းမ်ား
ေစာဖိုးခြား
2021-01-14

ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္နိုင္ငံ ေကာ့ဆက္ဘဇားခရိုင္ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ဒုကၡသည္စခန္းတြင္ ၂၀၂၁ ဇန္နဝါရီ ၁၄ ရက္ေန႔က မီးေလာင္ပ်က္စီးသြားသည့္ ေနအိမ္မ်ား။
(Photo: UNHCR)

ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္နိုင္ငံ ေကာ့ဆက္ဘဇားခရိုင္မွာရွိတဲ့ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ဒုကၡသည္စခန္းအတြင္းမွာ ဒီကေန႔ မနက္ အေစာ ပိုင္းက မီးေလာင္ခဲ့လို႔ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္ ေနအိမ္အလုံးေပါင္း ၅၅၀ ေက်ာ္ပ်က္စီးသြားတယ္လို႔ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ နိုင္ငံ ကုလသမဂၢ ဒုကၡသည္မ်ားဆိုင္ရာ မဟာမင္းႀကီး႐ုံး (UNHCR) က ေျပာပါတယ္။

ဒီကေန႔ မနက္အေစာပိုင္း ၁ နာရီခြဲေလာက္မွာ ေကာ့ဆက္ဘဇားခရိုင္ တက္ခ္နက္မွာရွိတဲ့ နာရာပါရာ ဒုကၡ သည္ စခန္း အမွတ္(၅) ကေန မီးစတင္ေလာင္ကၽြမ္းခဲ့တာျဖစ္ၿပီး မနက္ ၅ နာရီေက်ာ္မွာ မီးၿငိမ္းသတ္နိုင္ ခဲ့ပါ တယ္။

UNHCR Myanmar Operational Update, 1-30 November 2020

Situation Report
Source UNHCR
Posted 11 Jan 2021 

Rohingya Refugee Response/Bangladesh: Joint Government of Bangladesh - UNHCR Population factsheet (as of December 31, 2020)

 

Tahsan Khan appointed Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR in Bangladesh

The Daily Star

Arts & Entertainment Desk
January 02, 2021

      Photo: Courtesy of UNHCR

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, announced the appointment of popular Bangladeshi musician and actor, Tahsan Khan, as their first Goodwill Ambassador in Bangladesh, today.

He will join nearly 30 UNHCR Goodwill Ambassadors globally, who help to highlight the situation of refugees and the work of UNHCR in every corner of the world, through their influence, dedication and hard work.

Khan has been supporting UNHCR's advocacy and outreach activities since 2019. He visited the Rohingya refugee settlements in Cox's Bazar, and supported UNHCR in the promotion of World Refugee Day and other events. Through these engagements, he witnessed the complex Rohingya humanitarian response in Cox's Bazar, met with refugees, and deepened his understanding of the root causes of displacement.

Traffickers: Selling False Dreams To The Rohingya

THE ASEAN POST
Athira Nortajuddin 

16 December 2020 

This photo taken on 25 June, 2020 shows six-year-old Nosmin Fatima (R) with other Rohingya migrants as they arrive in Lhokseumawe in North Aceh. (AFP Photo)

 

From Rakhine state in Myanmar, the Rohingya are an ethnic community of largely Muslim people. Perhaps a million of them have fled from violence in the ASEAN member state in successive waves of displacement since the early 1990s. In 2017, hundreds of thousands more fled Myanmar to escape persecution, war crimes and alleged genocide.

Today, over 900,000 Rohingya live in camps in Cox’s Bazar in southeast Bangladesh – the world’s largest refugee settlement. Some have escaped to other neighbouring countries such as Malaysia and Indonesia – said to be among the Rohingya’s favoured destinations.

Don’t worry about Rohingya relocation to Bhasan Char: Dhaka to UNHCR

theindepedent 

UNB, Dhaka
10 December, 2020

Bangladesh has conveyed to the UN refugee agency that the international community has no reason to worry about relocation of Rohingyas to Bhasan Char.

Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations (UN) offices and other international organizations in Geneva Ambassador Md Mustafizur Rahman shared the logical points behind such voluntary relocation during a virtual meeting with UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)Filippo Grandi on Wednesday.

Ambassador Mustafizur said no Rohingya could be repatriated over the last three years due to lact of political will from Myanmar despite Bangladesh’s sincere efforts to send back the Rohingyas to their place of origin in Rakhine State.

UNHCR seeks access to Bhasan Char

NEWAGE  

Shahidul Islam Chowdhury
Dec 08,2020

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi has sought access for the UN partners, including the UNHCR, to the Rohingya people who have been relocated to the Bhasan Char island.

‘UNHCR and UN partners seek access to them in order to hear their voices, understand their wishes and see conditions on the island,’ Filippo Grandi said in a tweet, adding that any transfer must follow a voluntary and informed decision.

The Bangladesh government has recently relocated a total of 1,642 displaced Rohingya people of Myanmar to Bhasan Char from Cox’s Bazar camps amid concerns of the UN offices in Bangladesh and protest from several foreign rights bodies.

Rohingya Crisis: S Korea provides $ 1.5 million to UNHCR

UNB

UNB News
Dhaka
Publish- November 15, 2020

File Photo

South Korea has provided US$ 1.5 million to the UNHCR Bangladesh Office to support its activities in Cox’s Bazar under the 2020 Joint Response Plan(JRP) for the Rohingya humanitarian crisis.

Since the outbreak of the Rohingya crisis in 2017, the South Korean government has been closely working with the international community to resolve the refugee crisis, said the Korean Embassy in Dhaka on Sunday.

Rohingya Refugee Response - Bangladesh Factsheet - Public Health (31 August 2020)

News and Press Release
UNHCR
9 Nov 2020

 

 

UNHCR appeals for humanitarian aid for Rohingyas currently seeking refuge in Bangladesh

WION
Oct 23, 2020 

Link : Here

ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္ေတြအတြက္ ေဒၚလာသန္း ၆၀၀ ႏိုင္ငံတကာအလွဴရွင္ေတြ ကတိျပဳ

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ဗြီအိုုေအ (ျမန္မာဌာန)
ဗြီအိုေအ (ျမန္မာပုိင္း)
23 ေအာက္တိုဘာ၊ 2020

                 ၂၀၁၇ စက္တင္ဘာ ၁၉ ရက္ေန႔က ကုတုပေလာင္ စခန္းရွိ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ဒုကၡသည္မ်ား


ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ဒုကၡသည္ေတြအတြက္ လိုအပ္ေနတဲ့ ရန္ပုံေငြေတြ ျဖည္ဆည္းေပးနိုင္ဖို႔ အေမရိကန္ ေဒၚလာ သန္း ၆၀၀ နီးပါး လႉဒါန္းမွာ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း နိုင္ငံတကာက အလႉရွင္နိုင္ငံေတြက ကတိျပဳလိုက္ၾကပါတယ္။ ဒီ ကတိျပဳ ခ်က္ေၾကာင့္ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ဒုကၡသည္ေတြကို အကူအညီေပးေရး ေငြၾကးလိုအပ္ခ်က္ ကြာဟေနတာကို ျဖည့္ဆည္း ေပးနိုင္လိုက္ၿပီ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

OP-ED: Bangladesh is being held hostage

Dhaka Tribune  

Anis Alamgir

October 12th, 2020

Abandoned by all BIGSTOCK

With little support from the international arena, what is the future of the Rohingya in Bangladesh?

On October 5, Vikram Doraiswami, the newly appointed Indian High Commissioner to the country, arrived in Bangladesh. He told reporters at the land port in Akhaura: “Bangladesh is one of India’s closest friends, and thus we are eager to continue and enhance our bilateral relationship with this neighbouring country.”

Beijing is now more interested in keeping Bangladesh as a development partner through the continuous effort of distancing Dhaka from Delhi. Recently, Sino-Indian relations with Bangladesh are looking great, but the reality is different.

ဒုက္ခသည်များဆိုင်ရာ ကုလမဟာမင်းကြီး COVID 19 ကူး စက်ခံရ

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ဗွီအိုအေ (မြန်မာဌာန)
07 အောက်တိုဘာ၊ 2020

ကုလသမဂ္ဂ ဒုက္ခသည်များဆိုင်ရာ မဟာမင်းကြီးရုံး UNHCR ရဲ့နှစ်ပတ်လည် ညီလာခံ ပထမနေ့ ဖွင့်ပွဲ အခမ်း အနားကို လူကိုယ်တိုင် ဦးဆောင် တက်ရောက်ခဲ့ပြီးတဲ့နောက် UNHCR အဖွဲ့ မဟာမင်းကြီး Filippo Grandi COVID-19 ကူးစက်ခံရတယ်လို့ ပြောပါတယ်။ တနင်္လာနေ့ကစပြီး ဂျီနီဗာမြို့ မှာ တစ်ပတ်ကြာပြုလုပ်နေတဲ့ UNHCR အမှုဆောင် ကော်မတီအစည်းအဝေးကို လူကိုယ်တိုင် မတက်ရောက်တော့ဘဲ ဗီဒီယိုက တဆင့်သာ တက်ရောက်နိုင်တော့မယ်လို့ Filippo Grandi က အစည်းအဝေး တက်ရောက်သူတွေကို ဒီကနေ့ အင်္ဂါနေ့မှာ ပြောလိုက်တာလည်း ဖြစ်ပါတယ်။

UNHCR: Rohingya crisis needs lasting solutions

UNHCR

21 August 2020 

 

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Andrej Mahecic – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.

Rohingya children at a child-friendly space in Kutupalong refugee camp, Bangladesh, in July 2019. © UNHCR/Antoine Tardy

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is calling for renewed support and solutions for displaced and stateless Rohingya communities both within and outside of Myanmar today.

Three years on from the latest exodus of Rohingya refugees who fled Myanmar and sought sanctuary in Bangladesh from August 2017 onwards, challenges persist and continue to evolve. The COVID-19 pandemic has added additional complexities. The international community must not only maintain support for refugees and their host communities, but adapt to critical needs and expand the search for solutions.