UN to cut food aid for Rohingya refugees, citing fund shortfall
Bangkok, ThailandReuters The United Nations plans to slash food aid to Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, blaming a funding shortfall for cuts that agencies warned on Friday would deepen food insecurity and malnutrition in the world’s largest refugee settlement. About 730,000 Rohingya, a persecuted mostly Muslim minority from Myanmar’s Rakhine state, fled to Bangladesh in 2017 […]
Essay: Why has the West given billions in military aid to Ukraine, but virtually ignored Myanmar?
In an article first published on The Conversation, Australian academics NICHOLAS FARRELLY and ADAM SIMPSON compare the Western response to Myanmar’s military coup and ongoing conflict with the war in Ukraine…
“Better to die at sea”: Surging crime, bleak future push Rohingya in Bangladesh to risk lives at sea
RUMA PAUL, SUDIPTO GANGULY and KRISHNA N DAS, of Reuters, report on the factors driving Rohingya Muslims to leave camps in Bangladesh and undertake perilous journeys in a bid to reach countries such as Malaysia and Indonesia…
Rohingya fleeing Myanmar or Bangladesh by sea surged fivefold in 2022 – UN
New Delhi, India Reuters The number of Rohingya fleeing Myanmar or Bangladesh by sea surged fivefold to more than 3,500 in 2022 from a year earlier, the UN refugee agency said on Tuesday, in the deadliest year for the ethnic minority group at since 2014. At least 348 Rohingya died or went missing as they […]
UN urges countries to help Rohingya at sea as hundreds land in Indonesia
Pidie, Indonesia Reuters The United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, urged countries on Tuesday to help Rohingya Muslims stranded at sea as at least 20 reportedly died and hundreds more landed in Indonesia after weeks adrift in the Indian Ocean. Nearly 500 Rohingya have reached Indonesia in the past six weeks while “many others did not […]
Deadliest year for Rohingya at sea in years as 180 presumed drowned
New Delhi, India/Dhaka, Bangladesh Reuters The possible sinking of a boat in recent weeks with 180 Rohingya Muslims on board could make 2022 one of the deadliest years at sea in almost a decade for the community, a UN agency said, as refugees try to flee desperate conditions in Bangladesh camps. Nearly a million Rohingya […]
“They tried to erase us”: Myanmar’s Rohingya IDs deny citizenship
RINA CHANDRAN, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on claims Myanmar’s identity card system has been used as a surveillance tool against the persecuted minority…
Essay: Generous aid to Ukraine is diverting resources away from other refugee crises around the world
In an article first published on The Conversation, TAZREENA SAJJAD looks at concerns the overwhelming attention on Ukraine is diverting resources – both financial and human – from other crises that are already facing unprecedented funding shortages…
UN investigator says Facebook provided vast amount of Myanmar war crimes information
Geneva, Switzerland Reuters The head of a UN team of investigators on Myanmar said on Monday that Facebook has handed over millions of items that could support allegations of war crimes and genocide. The Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar aims to build case files for proceedings in national, regional or international courts. It was established […]
Myanmar Rohingya, five years on, desperate to leave Bangladesh camps and go home
Dhaka, BangladeshReuters Myanmar Rohingya Muslims protested across refugee camps in neighbouring Bangladesh on Thursday, the fifth anniversary of clashes between Rohingya insurgents and Myanmar security forces that drove hundreds of thousands of Rohingya from their homes. More than a million Rohingya are living in squalid camps in southern Bangladesh comprising the world’s largest refugee settlement, […]