Rohingya biometric ID

Rohingya biometric ID

More tha a million people have crossed by boat and on foot into Bangladesh in 2017-2018 as they fled from violence in western Myanmar. Photo: Salahuddin Ahmed Paulash

UN shared Rohingya data without their ‘informed consent’: HRW

HRW report claimed that the refugees were generally not made aware that the data they were providing would also be used by the Bangladeshi government to submit details about them to authorities in...

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Local representatives ‘responsible’ for Rohingya NID scam

A family of Rohingya refugees hold up their identity cards after completing a UNHCR-run registration process at Kutupalong refugee settlement, Bangladesh/ UNHCR

NID forgery: 2 Election Commission staffer placed on 7-day remand

A family of Rohingya refugees hold up their identity cards after completing a UNHCR-run registration process at Kutupalong refugee settlement, Bangladesh/ UNHCR

Rohingya NIDs: 3 including election official arrested

A UNHCR officer helps register Rohingya refugees in Kutupalong Refugee Camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh on 24 July 2019/ UNHCR

More than half a million Rohingya in Bangladesh get ID cards: UNHCR