Myanmar coup: ‘No sign’ of end to brutal crackdown on all fronts

UN News

Peace and Security
11 May 2021

Unsplash/Gayatri Malhotra, Protestors calling for democracy in Myanmar.

One hundred days since the Myanmar military seized power, the "brutal" repression of protesters has continued, despite all international efforts to end the violence, the UN rights office (OHCHR) said on Tuesday.

“The military authorities are showing no sign of letting up in their brutal crackdown on opponents in a bid to consolidate their hold on power”, spokesperson Rupert Colville told journalists at a media briefing.

Islamic Zakat donations reached millions of refugees in 2020

TRT WORLD
02 April 2021

Compared to four years ago, Zakat funds increased in record numbers last year, helping more than two million refugees across the world, according to UNHCR.

The latest Islamic Philanthropy report of the UNHCR has shown that Islamic Zakat donations in 2020 saw a big increase compared to previous years, amounting to $61.5 million, reaching more than two million displaced people across the world.

Compared to the period of 2016-2018, when Islamic donations had reached more than 34,000 people, last year, both Zakat and Sadaqah, along with Sadaqah Jariyah, which are other forms of religious donations, helped nearly 2.1 million people in total.

Dozens of Rohingya camping outside UNHCR office in India detained

Aljazeera
Bilal Kuchay
11 Mar 2021

At least 88 Rohingya detained in New Delhi while camping outside the UN refugee body’s office in second such move in a week.

Rahima Kato, a Rohingya woman, displays identity cards of her family members issued by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) at their makeshift camp on the outskirts of Jammu [File: Channi Anand/AP]

New Delhi, India – Dozens of Rohingya refugees have been detained while they were camping outside the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) office in the Indian capital, New Delhi – the second such move in a week.

“A total of 88 people have been detained,” an officer at Vikaspuri police station in the capital’s southwest told Al Jazeera over telephone on Thursday.

UN: Boat with Rohingya refugees adrift without food, water

ARAB NEWS

AP
February 24, 2021

A group of Rohingya refugees is adrift in a boat in the Andaman Sea without food or water, the UN said. (File/Reuters)

• The UN and rights groups have said many of the refugees were ill and suffering from acute dehydration
• Reports said about 90 refugees, including some children, started the journey to seek better lives

DHAKA: A group of Rohingya refugees is adrift in a boat in the Andaman Sea without food or water, the United Nations said Wednesday, as their families worried that many may have already died.

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, or UNHCR, said it understands that some of the refugees died after the boat left southern Bangladesh about two weeks ago. It said it does not know the boat’s exact current location.

Japan, UNHCR sign $10m deal to help Rohingya

THE NATION

Anadolu

March 02, 2021

Japan and the UN Refugee Agency signed an agreement over the weekend to provide around $10 million for improving access to clean water at camps in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district, where more than 1.2 million Rohingya refugees have been taking shelter following a military crackdown in Myanmar in 2017.

The funds will be used to support the improvement of water supply and distribution systems for Bangladeshi host communities and Rohingya refugees in the Teknaf upazila, or administrative region, of Cox’s Bazar, the Japanese embassy in Dhaka and UNHCR said in a joint statement.

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

VOA

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