Arakan, Displaced

Dec 18, 2012 | Report

By Francis Wade Several minutes into President Obama’s speech at Rangoon University in early November, Burmese state television channels that were broadcasting the historic occasion – the first visit to Burma by a U.S. president – cut their simultaneous translations....

Government wrong to turn away Rohingya refugees

Dec 18, 2012 | Refugee

PRESS RELEASE It is tragedy that the Government has turned away 40 people who were picked up by a ship off the coast of Myanmar who, from media reports, are Muslim Rohingya. They were seeking refuge in Singapore. These persons, many of them women and children, are...

BANGLADESH: NGO ban hurting undocumented Rohingya

Dec 18, 2012 | Refugee

COX’S BAZAR, 17 December 2012 (IRIN) – Some 40,000 undocumented Rohingya refugees are being adversely affected by a government ban four months ago on NGOs working at two makeshift sites in southeastern Bangladesh. “If we get some rice, we eat. Otherwise, we...

Dire condition of Rohingya camps, need to improve: Valerie Amos

Dec 17, 2012 | Report

Valerie Amos, the co-coordinator for United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief, told the UN News Centre that conditions for thousands of displaced Rohingya IDPs camps in western Burma are “dire” and called on the government...