Access to education in Bangladesh’s Rohingya refugee camps is limited at the early primary school level. So alternative lifeskills training is being offered to help fill the gap. Teenage refugees are being taught skills that will help them earn money and cope with daily difficulties
Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees were seriously traumatized when Burmese troops launched a brutal “clearance operation” in August 2017 that forced them to flee Myanmar for neighboring Bangladesh
Two years ago, Myanmar’s army drew international condemnation for driving more than 750,000 Muslim Rohingya into neighboring Bangladesh. This week the Myanmar and Bangladesh governments announced the beginning of a voluntary repatriation plan for many, however not a single person volunteered to go back. Steve Sandford spoke to refugees and rights workers about the prospect …
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Myanmar’s civilian government and powerful military have rejected the findings of U.N. and other independent investigations of the events of August 2017 and have done little to hold anyone accountable for the violent campaign to expel the Rohingya
Press Briefing by Radhika Coomaraswamy, Member of the UN Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar
Some 700,000 ethnic Rohingyas have fled Myanmar for Bangladesh following a brutal military crackdown that began in August 2017 in northwest Rakhine state. But for the more than 120,000 Rohingya who remained in Myanmar, life is grim and many fear for their future. From reporting done in Myanmar’s Rakhine state
International Criminal Court prosecutors are in Bangladesh to lay the groundwork for an investigation into alleged crimes of humanity against Myanmar’s Rohingya minority so they can begin a probe quickly if the ICC gives them the green light, the delegation’s chief said Thursday
The Facebook page of the Office of President Win Myint said he has signed a pardon for 9,551 prisoners, including 16 foreigners, to be released nationwide on the occasion of the country’s traditional New Year
On Thursday, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said that 48 civilians, including 16 children were killed by landmines in Myanmar in 2018 and urged all parties involved in armed conflict to stop laying new mines and protect children’s lives
The U.N. Children’s Fund says climate change in Bangladesh is threatening the lives and futures of 19 million children or one-third of all children under age 18 in the country