Siddique Islam – AHN South Asia Correspondent New York, NY (AHN) – New individual identification cards will improve conditions for 22,500 refugees in Bangladesh, the United Nations refugee agency said on Wednesday."With these cards, refugees will be...
Cox's Bazaar , Bangladesh : The first batch of 23 Burmese refugees this year from five families, including men, women and children reached New Zealand on June 30, for resettlement to a third country, according to a Majee in the camp. Five members from one family...
Udatta Bikash, Human Rights Practitioner, Dhaka Photo: www.msf.org. The UN Refugee agency, UNHCR has been playing a discriminatory role against the Rohingya refugees from Myanmar in Bangladesh.The agency has been supporting around 30,000 Rohingya refugees staying in...
By Mark Dummett BBC News, Dhaka The Tal camp is not much more than a swamp. It is the squalid home of about 8,000 refugees – the victims of the Burmese military. They are Muslims, and of the Rohingya minority. In total as many as 200,000 have settled in...
By Jalil HamidKUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia has caned dozens of refugees as illegal immigrants, a refugee group said, sparking criticisms by rights organizations that the government is torturing people it should protect. Malaysia arrested up to 300 of...
While news of major refugee emergencies often dominate headlines, the plight of millions of people who have languished in exile for years — and sometimes decades — remains a low-profile high-risk situation with serious humanitarian and security...
