International Organization for Migration (IOM) has inaugurated a shelter improvement and vocational programme in a remote fishing village in Teknaf of Cox’s Bazar. Under the programme, a small community, located alongside the Naf River and extremely vulnerable to flooding, cyclones and extreme weather, has received shelter upgrades and business skills
The government is optimistic about implementing its plan to relocate Rohingyas to Bhasan Char on completion of further technical assessment to be done by an expert team, said a senior government official. “We can do that. It’s (Rohingya relocation) possible,” the official told UNB wishing to remain unnamed adding that
According to the agreement, the repatriation should have begun within two months of inking the deal meaning Two years have passed by since Bangladesh and Myanmar signed a bilateral agreement on the repatriation of hundreds of thousands of Rohingyas sheltered in Cox’s Bazar, but not a single persecuted person from
To reduce social tension, Chairman of Bangladesh Law Commission, Justice A B M Khairul Haque has called on the Government of Bangladesh to appoint retired Judges on contract basis which will help reduce the back-log of civil cases. Justice Khairul, who is also a former Chief Justice of Bangladesh made
UNB:: UN experts concerned by “crackdown” on Rohingya camps Dhaka, Sept 16 (UNB) – UN human rights experts on Monday urged the Bangladesh government to carry out an “independent, impartial and effective investigation” into all the deaths that have occurred in Rohingya camps. “The search for justice for the young
At a regular briefing in Geneva on Friday, WFP spokesperson Hervé Verhoosel explained that it costs the food-assistance branch of the global body $16 million every month to feed almost 900,000 Rohingyas in Cox’s Bazar The World Food Programme (WFP), the food-assistance branch of the United Nations, has warned that
‘Although law enforcement officials are trying hard, the situation suggests there may be a loophole’ Due to increasing incidents of human trafficking at the Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar, the government is set to build barbed wire fencing around the camps. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Defence Ministry, in
The govt appointed probe committee has identified the masterminds, who were behind the Rohingya mass rally in Ukhia, Cox’s Bazar, without the permission of the local administration. On Sept 3 last, a probe report, signed by Cox’s Bazar Deputy Commissioner Md Kamal Hossain, was sent to the NGO Bureau containing
Banks have also been told to halt all transactions of the organizations The government has banned operations of two non-government organizations (NGOs) in Bangladesh for allegedly financing and instigating an anti-repatriation campaign at the Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar. US-based Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) and local Al
UkhiyaNews.Com: Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne has visited the Save Children learning centre at Cox’s Bazar to see first-hand the help being given to Rohingya children. Minister Payne visited Balukhali camp in Cox’s Bazar on 4 September 2019 as part of a three-day trip to Bangladesh. “This was an important
