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Rohingya Crisis

UNHCR celebrates the resilience of Rohingyas on World Refugee Day

UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Tahsan Khan visited Cox’s Bazar camps and met with refugees to learn about their experiences on the occasion of World Refugee Day 2021

2020 sees 4% rise in forced displacement worldwide: UNHCR
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2020 sees 4% rise in forced displacement worldwide: UNHCR

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
Rohingya Crisis

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

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
Rohingya Crisis

UN shared Rohingya data without informed consent: HRW

Rohingyas are entering Bangladesh territory crossing Myanmar border on October 9, 2017. Photo: Salahuddin Ahmed Paulash/TBS
Covid-19 in Bangladesh

UNHCR seeks vaccinations for refugees in Asia, including Rohingyas

Bangladesh has been hosting over 1.1 million Rohingyas in congested Cox’s Bazar camps. Some 100,000 Rohingyas will gradually be shifted to Bhashan Char, which has already been well-equipped with modern facilities, including schools, mosques, community clinics, mobile networks and internet, for Rohingyas. Photos: Shamsuddin Illius/TBS
Rohingya Crisis

UNHCR delegation visits Bhasan Char

A starving refugee family counting their days for the war to end so they can return home. Photo: Collected
Panorama

1971 Exodus: Managing an astronomical 10 million refugees

A fire is seen at a Balukhali refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh March 22, 2021 in this still image obtained from a social media video. Ro Yassin Abdumonab/via REUTERS
Rohingya Crisis

Aid workers struggle to reunite Rohingya children separated by deadly fire

File photo of Rohingya refugees. Photo: REUTERS
Rohingya Crisis

Oxfam-UNHCR to provide sustainable WASH services to host, Rohingya communities

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Health

Brac, UNHCR, launch mental health centre for Rohingyas in Ukhiya

Rohingya ethnic minority people fleeing to a temporary makeshift camp, crossing Naf river, after crossing over from Myanmar into the Bangladesh side of the border, near Cox's Bazar's Palangkhali area, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017. Tens of thousands more people have crossed by boat and on foot into Bangladesh in the last two weeks as they flee violence in western Myanmar. Photo: Salahuddin Ahmed Paulash/TBS
Rohingya Crisis

UN refugee agency calls for rescue of Rohingya stranded in Andaman Sea

Rohingya ethnic minority people fleeing to a temporary makeshift camp, crossing Naf river, after crossing over from Myanmar into the Bangladesh side of the border, near Cox's Bazar's Palangkhali area, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017. Tens of thousands more people have crossed by boat and on foot into Bangladesh in the last two weeks as they flee violence in western Myanmar. Photo: Salahuddin Ahmed Paulash/TBS
Rohingya Crisis

UNHCR appeals for rescue of Rohingya refugees drifting on Andaman Sea

A family, claiming to be from Colombia, gets set to cross the border into Canada from the United States as asylum seekers on Wednesday, April 18, 2018 near Champlain, NY / The Canadian Press
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Asylum ‘under attack’ at Europe’s borders: UN