COX’S BAZAR, BANGLADESH, 2 October 2017 – UNICEF is launching a US$76.1 million appeal for its emergency humanitarian response to the Rohingya refugee crisis in southern Bangladesh.  The appeal will cover the immediate needs of newly-arrived Rohingya children, as well as those who arrived before the recent influx, and children from vulnerable host communities — […]

UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 28 (NsNewsWire) — The number of Rohingya refugees who fled Myanmar to Bangladesh since late August has reached 480,000, challenging efforts to care for them, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said on Tuesday, reports Xinhua. “The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says that the number of Rohingya refugees who have […]

Amid condemnation around the world and UN calling the situation in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, “a textbook example of ethnic cleansing”, Myanmar’s UN ambassador lied to UN saying that there is no “ethnic cleansing” or genocide taking place against Muslims,  reports AFP. The envoy objected “in the strongest terms” to countries that used those words to […]

Reuters, Yangon Myanmar government forces found on Sunday the bodies of 28 Hindu villagers who authorities suspected were killed by Muslim insurgents last month, at the beginning of a spasm of violence that has sent 430,000 Muslim Rohingya fleeing to Bangladesh.

DHAKA, Bangladesh, 24 September 2017:  The first consignment of UNICEF emergency supplies for hundreds of thousands of refugee Rohingya children and their families has arrived in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka.   The cargo plane arrived from Copenhagen with 100 tons of supplies comprising water purifying tablets, family hygiene kits, sanitary materials, plastic tarpaulins, recreational kits […]