By Hanh Nguyen, Themba Lewis On 24 May 2022, at least 17 Rohingya refugees were killed after their boat capsized in bad weather off the Myanmar coast. Children drowned. The victims were among some 90...
Burma and Bangladesh - Regional Crisis Response Fact Sheet #6, Fiscal Year (FY) 2022
SITUATION AT A GLANCE 6.2 MILLION People Targeted for Humanitarian Assistance in Burma UN – July 2022 989,400 People Displaced Since February 2021 Who Remain IDPs in Burma UNHCR – September 2022 1.3...
Last week in South Asia and Afghanistan, a bomb explosion targeted Muslim worshippers in Kabul in Afghanistan, while the Taliban attacked civilians across the country. Meanwhile, anti-Taliban groups...
More than 900,000 Rohingya refugees are living in extremely congested camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Most of them were forced to flee from violence and persecution in Myanmar in August 2017. Since...
MYANMAR: FACEBOOK’S SYSTEMS PROMOTED VIOLENCE AGAINST ROHINGYA; META OWES REPARATIONS Facebook owner Meta’s dangerous algorithms and reckless pursuit of profit substantially contributed to the...
By Syed Abbas Hussain As the Covid-19 contagion spread indiscriminately around the globe, it seemed to hit the most vulnerable communities discriminately: poor families were pushed further into...
Safety, security and access incidents Incidents of threats and violence in refugee and IDP settings. Africa Ethiopia 08 August 2022: In Ukugu Refugee Camp, Dimma town, Gambella region, the camp was...
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS) jointly organized a round-table dialogue in Chattogram on 22 August that focused on the importance...
A BRAC and ActionAid in Bangladesh initiative One of the six winners of the 2022 Aga Khan Award for Architecture is Community Spaces in the Rohingya Refugee Response, a programme created through a...