Aug 6, 2008 | Refugee
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...
Jul 2, 2008 | Refugee
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...
Jun 30, 2008 | Refugee
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...
Sep 29, 2007 | Refugee
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...
Aug 7, 2007 | Refugee
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...
Jun 13, 2007 | Refugee
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...
