rohingya refugee camp

When the Rohingya crisis becomes an opportunity for some

While the Myanmar junta escalates its war on ethnic minorities and the world shifts its attention to Ukraine, Gaza, Israel, Syria, and Sudan, Rohingya suffering continues in near-total neglect.

Now is the time to act on Rohingya crisis

Bangladesh faces challenges managing the Rohingya crisis without a clear asylum policy.

World Refugee Day / Solidarity for refugees and refugee hosts

Since 2022, the security situation in the refugee camps has deteriorated—including killings, kidnapping, gender-based violence and child protection incidents.

Rohingya repatriation: Can we ever find a viable scheme?

International support for the Rohingya people is diminishing by the day.

Rohingya repatriation: Easier said than done

Even if they go back to their homeland, what exactly is awaiting them there?

Rohingya, Geopolitics and Myanmar: An Uncertain Future

Myanmar's geopolitical value is putting Bangladesh in a tight spot

Longing for home: 5th anniversary of Rohingya influx

For Shamsul Ahmed, life in the Rohingya refugee camp is now much better than it was five years ago, but his heart longs for home. 

Music as a panacea for pain in Rohingya refugee camps

An intervention to teach Rohingya youth their own music is bringing them hope and reconnecting them to their culture.

Rohingya man shot dead by criminals

Criminals shot a Rohingya man dead inside a camp at Leda in Teknaf upazila yesterday afternoon.

August 24, 2022
August 24, 2022

Longing for home: 5th anniversary of Rohingya influx

For Shamsul Ahmed, life in the Rohingya refugee camp is now much better than it was five years ago, but his heart longs for home. 

July 31, 2022
July 31, 2022

Music as a panacea for pain in Rohingya refugee camps

An intervention to teach Rohingya youth their own music is bringing them hope and reconnecting them to their culture.

September 1, 2018
September 1, 2018

Rohingya man shot dead by criminals

Criminals shot a Rohingya man dead inside a camp at Leda in Teknaf upazila yesterday afternoon.

July 13, 2018
July 13, 2018

Couriers of misfortune

On July 6, a nine-year-old boy was stopped at Damdamia check post in Cox's Bazar by the BGB, upon receiving information that Rohingya women and children were being used as drug mules.

June 19, 2018
June 19, 2018

UN chief, WB president to visit Rohingyas

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres and World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim are likely to visit Rohingya refugee camps in Cox's Bazar soon, Finance Minister AMA Muhith said yesterday.

June 5, 2018
June 5, 2018

Ukhia, Teknaf forests in grave danger

Around 1.94 lakh Rohingya families residing in Ukhia and Teknaf refugee camps burn about 2,250 tonnes of firewood daily for cooking. If it continues, the forests in Ukhia and Teknaf upazilas may perish by 2019, according to a study finding of COAST Trust, a local NGO.

May 29, 2018
May 29, 2018

Priyanka on her visit to the Rohingya refugee camp

In a recent conversation with an international media portal, Priyanka Chopra revealed the reason she went to visit Rohingya refugee camp

May 18, 2018
May 18, 2018

Rohingya Refugee Camps: Some 60 babies born a day: UN

Around 60 babies a day are being born in vast refugee camps in Bangladesh, sheltering hundreds of thousands of mainly Rohingya Muslims who have fled Myanmar, the United Nations children's agency Unicef said on Wednesday.

February 28, 2018
February 28, 2018

Hold Myanmar to account

The recent comments made by three Nobel laureates when they visited Rohingya refugee camps in Cox's Bazar, have brought to the fore the need for the international community to be unanimous in taking concerted action against the genocide that forced more than a million Rohingyas to flee their homeland, Myanmar.

September 8, 2017
September 8, 2017

Turkish first lady visits Rohingya refugees

Turkish First Lady Emine Erdogan and Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu yesterday visited a registered Rohingya refugee camp in