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  Displacement, Democracy and Development: An Alternative Approach to the Rohingya Refugee Situation United Against Inhumanity (UAI) and United Nations Association–UK (UNA-UK) Published September 2025 Click here for the article Summary This report, prepared by UAI and UNA-UK, presents the findings of a multi-stakeholder workshop held in September 2025 and submitted to the UN high-level conference on Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar.

  Sad news in Camp 5 at Cox’s Bazar. 3,500 children homeless & 1,500 losing out on learning because their classrooms were destroyed by last night’s fire. @UNICEFBD is on the ground with partners providing shelter, protection and working to get classrooms operational. Read more 👇 https://t.co/Q1sURG1QjI — Sam Mort (@SamMort9) January 8, 2024 View this post on Instagram A post shared by Norwegian Refugee Council (@nrc_norway)

Marking the sixth anniversary of the Myanmar military’s genocidal attacks against the Rohingya, a UN expert today called on world leaders to end the paralysis of indifference and take action to hold the architects and perpetrators of this violence to account while supporting Rohingya refugees and internally displaced persons. Tom Andrews, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar issued the following statement: “Responsibility for the immense suffering of the Rohingya starts at the top. Min Aung Hlaing, who led the genocidal campaign, is now at the head of an illegal and illegitimate military junta that is attacking civilian populations throughout Myanmar. He must be brought to justice and be made to answer for his crimes. On 25 August 2017, the Myanmar military launched a massive offensive to drive the Rohingya people from their homeland in northern Rakhine State. In the weeks that followed, soldiers murdered, raped, and tortured Rohingya civilians and bur...

Despite fires burning down learning centres and Cyclone Mocha’s wrath, a record 300,000 Rohingya refugee children attend first day of school Against the odds of displacement, fires burning down learning centres, and Cyclone Mocha’s wrath, classrooms in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh are filling up today with children, excited on the first day of school. Thanks to expanded education opportunities for teenagers and girls, a record 300,000 children are enrolled for the 2023/24 school year. The new academic year marks the first time that that Rohingya refugee children of all ages will be studying under the Myanmar Curriculum. Since its launch in 2021, this formal curriculum has gradually been expanded with grades 3-5 and grade 10 opening today for the first time in the Cox’s Bazar refugee camps, significantly increasing learning opportunities for both older and younger children. “Rohingya refugee children want to learn, and to turn their hopes and dreams for a better future to ...

Gwyn Lewis, UNRC Bangladesh The cuts will reduce the value of rations provided to Rohingya refugees to $8 per month, or 27 cents per day. At the beginning of the year, refugees were receiving a ration of $12 per person per month, which was just enough to meet daily needs, but on 1 March, that was cut to $10 – due to lack of funding support. ‘Extremely concerned’ “We are extremely concerned that WFP has been forced to cut food aid for the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh”, said the UN Resident Coordinator in Bangladesh, Gwyn Lewis. “The nutrition and health consequences will be devastating, particularly for women and children and the most vulnerable in the community. We urgently appeal for international support.” The mostly-Muslim Rohingya, fled by the hundreds of thousands after a military crackdown in Myanmar’s Rakhine State in August 2017, that the UN human rights chief at the time described as a text book case of ethnic cleansing. Those fleeing persecution joined around 300,000 alre...

The following photos and poems are from a fundraising appeal by Oxfam - click here for details and how to contribute. Five years after the Rohingya people were forced to flee their homes, almost a million displaced people still live in Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh, accounting for the world’s largest refugee camp. Each one of them has a powerful story to tell, so Oxfam asked a group of Rohingya artists to submit visual art, photography, writing, and poetry to share these stories with the world. Each piece speaks to the enduring humanity, dignity, and resilience of the Rohingya people.   "In this journey, we have been walking toward justice and a life where we can enjoy all rights that a human being has on this planet, and we will keep walking until we reach this goal." — Ro Abdula Ro Abdula took this photograph after the refugee camp was fenced in with barbed wire. "My life has become like a prisoner trapped in a jail, where we have to stay in a limited area and can't...

In Cox’s Bazar, Michelle Bachelet visited camps housing Rohingya refugees who, after terrible repression and human rights violations, fled Myanmar five years ago “to get some safety,” she said. “An estimated 1.1 million Rohingyas are in Bangladesh right now, meaning Cox's Bazar, some of them in Bhashan char,” Ms. Bachelet said after visiting several sites inside a camp. They described their grievances, their pains, how they left and lost everything they have –  UN High Commissioner for Human Rights   Women share pains The top UN human rights official met with religious leaders as well as women and youth groups who shared with her their concerns and hopes. In a women’s safe place inside the Cox’s Bazar camp, she spoke with them about their experiences. “They described their grievances, their pains, how they left and lost everything they have…their livelihoods” and loved ones, said Ms. Bachelet. They talked about the shelter provided to them in Bangladesh’s Cox's Bazar cam...

“My situation has made me a poet and artist." Mayyu Khan, 20 Azimul captured this image after a fire ripped through his temporary home in Cox’s Bazar. “It is important because there are many things journalists miss — but I live in the camps and am myself a refugee, so I can capture the daily reality of my community.Through my photos, the world can be updated about the situation in the refugee camps. Ro Anamul Hasan, 24 These opening lines are from “My Refugee Life” by poet Ro Anamul Hasan. His writing examines his experiences with horrific violence in Myanmar, a place where his uncles were arbitrarily arrested and tortured  and from where he was forced to flee.

KUTUPALONG CAMP, Bangladesh — Every morning, Mohammad Reyaz, a sixth grader, appears in uniform outside his school for Rohingya refugees in the Cox’s Bazar area of Bangladesh. Click here for the original article And every morning, he returns home with a sullen face after finding its gate locked. Bangladeshi authorities shut the school down last month. It is one of more than 30 such closings of community-run schools that have sent waves of frustration and disappointment across the densely crowded refugee camps, home to about 400,000 school-age children, according to UNICEF, the U.N. Children’s Fund. No one knows when Mohammad, along with 600 of his classmates, will be able to go back to the few rooms made of bamboo slats that they had called their school. “When I see my school empty, I feel sad,” said Mohammad, who had attended the school for 22 months before it was closed. “I liked it more than my home.” About half the population of the sprawling camps is younger than 18, and Rohingya ...

Refugee camp image wins food photo contest By bbc.com 2 min View Original K M Asad has been named Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year 2020 for her image of children queuing for food at a vast Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. More than one million people live in the refugee camp, recently been placed in lockdown amid the Coronavirus pandemic. "This moving image really speaks to our times," awards founder and director Caroline Kenyon says. "The world is in the grip of Covid-19 - and normal life, whatever that may be, has stopped for all of us. "These Rohingya refugee children remind us of the fragility of life, that our need for food for survival connects us all around the world - we are all the same." After judges sifted through 9,000 entries from more than 70 countries the winners, were announced online via a livestream event. Here are some of the competition category winners, with descriptions by the photographers. Bring Home the Harve...

Credit: Al Jazeera Rohingya children are prohibited from enrolling in local schools, Human Rights Watch (HRW) says, basing the allegation on interviews with teachers, aid workers, government officials and more than 150 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. More than 700,000 mostly-Muslim Rohingya refugees from majority-Buddhist Myanmar’s western­ Rakhine state live in crowded camps in the country. U.N. humanitarian groups and international NGOs are also barred from providing formal accredited education to Rohingya children, says the report. Unable to open official schools, some NGOs have built bamboo structures to serve as learning centers, but these reportedly lack water, electricity, desks and chairs. .... A Rohingya teacher told Human Rights Watch that there were as many as 300,000 children in the camps “who did not even finish class three, and their future will be destroyed, because there is no proper education.” Read article in Time See also: Read article in Al Jazeera - UN and NGOs a...

Source: en.wikipedia.org " United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres should act to prevent future UN failures in the face of atrocities, a coalition of 16 organizations said in a joint letter to the secretary-general that was released today. The May 2019 report of an independent investigation by a Guatemalan diplomat, Gert Rosenthal, raised serious concerns about the UN’s handling of the human rights crisis in Myanmar . The secretary-general should promptly carry out reforms to prevent what the report called the recurrence of the “systematic” failures and “obvious dysfunctional performance” and to ensure individual accountability for those failures. “The UN leadership promised it would never again turn a blind eye to atrocities after ignoring massive civilian deaths in Sri Lanka a decade ago, but it happened again,” said Louis Charbonneau , UN director at Human Rights Watch. “The UN leadership needs to avoid another catastrophe, including by holding officials who faile...

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