Teknaf, Bangladesh: A tailoring training centre for men was opened in the Nayapara Burmese refugee camp yesterday by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Male refugees will be trained in tailoring. In 1999, a women’s tailoring centre...
KITCHENER, Canada, April 20 (UNHCR) – Shofique Ahmed sits swathed in layers of clothing under his anorak. Decades ago he was a farm labourer in Myanmar's northern Rakhine state. It's early spring, but looking out at the blowing snow he must wonder at the...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Foreign Correspondent has made a wonderful documentary about Rohingyas. We would like to convey our deep thanks and gratitude for this wonderful documentary and for bringing awareness of the Rohingya Issue to the world...
Thailand Also Forcing Asylum Seekers Back into Burma Rohingya refugees from Burma living in Bangladesh face an increased risk of mistreatment and are being denied access to necessary humanitarian aid by the Bangladeshi authorities, endangering thousands of civilians...
Report on the 1978-79 Bangladesh refugee Relief operation 1 Alan C. Lindquist I wish to thank the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, England, for the use of its facilities while researching and writing this report. I also...
Introduction Muslims from Arakan State in northwestern Burma, have become the latest targets of Burmese military atrocities. Since late 1991, they have been streaming into neighboring Bangladesh at the rate of several thousand a day with stories of rapes,...
