Rohingya Refugees

UN agency seeks information on origin of Rohingya refugees in Indonesia

A United Nations agency is seeking information about the voyage of over 100 Rohingya Muslim refugees who landed on an Indonesian beach this week, and warned Tuesday that there will likely be more. A distressing video circulated widely in social media showed the dehydrated and exhausted Rohingya, crumpled weakly and emaciated, many crying for help. At least 185 men, women and children disembarked from a rickety wooden boat Monday at dusk on Ujong Pie beach at Muara Tiga, a coastal village in Aceh's Pidie district, said local police chief Fauzi, who goes by a single name. They are very weak because of dehydration and exhaustion after weeks at sea, Fauzi said. Muhammad Rafki Syukri, the Protection Associate at United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, said the agency would provide Rohingya language translators and counselling to determine if they were from the group of 190 Rohingya who were reported by United Nations to be drifting in a small boat in the Andaman Sea for a ...

As govt denies softening policy, Rohingyas in Delhi say 'hopes dashed'

The Rohingya community tries to build a life in hardscrabble colony as home ministry denies they would be shifted to flats

Helter-skelter shelter: Why are Rohingya refugees in the news again?

No sooner did the union minister Hardeep Puri hail giving Rohingyas a permanent shelter than the MHA denied any such order

Puri lauds govt's move to shift 1,100 Rohingyas to EWS flats in Delhi

Hardeep Singh Puri lauded the central government's decision to shift nearly 1,100 Rohingya refugees in Delhi to flats equipped with basic facilities and round-the-clock security

Rohingya refugees sue Facebook for $150 billion alleging role in violence

Rohingya refugees sued Facebook for $150 billion, accusing it of failing to stop hate speech that incited violence against the Muslim ethnic group by military rulers and their supporters in Myanmar

Rohingya refugees sue Facebook for $150 billion over Myanmar violence

Rohingya refugees are suing Meta Platforms Inc for $150 billion over allegations that the social media company did not take action against anti-Rohingya hate speech that contributed to violence

Rohingya refugees sue Facebook for $150 bn over Myanmar violence

Lawyers filed a class-action lawsuit Monday in California saying Facebook's arrival in Myanmar helped spread hate speech, misinformation and incitement to violence

US announces $180 million humanitarian aid for Rohingya refugees

The United States has earmarked an additional USD 180 million to aid more than 700,000 Rohingya refugees from Myanmar.US State Department spokesperson Ned Price said that US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield announced nearly USD 180 million in additional humanitarian assistance for those affected by the Rakhine State/Rohingya refugee crisis in Burma, Bangladesh, and elsewhere in the region."With this new funding, our total humanitarian assistance for this response reaches more than USD 1.5 billion since August 2017, when more than 740,000 Rohingya were forced to flee ethnic cleansing and other horrific atrocities and abuses in Burma's [Myanmar's] Rakhine State to safety in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh," Price said in a press release on Wednesday.The state department lauded humanitarian actors for a strong and well-coordinated humanitarian response, which includes preventing and responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.Myanmar has been in turmoil since the coup on February

168 Rohingyas living illegally in Jammu sent to jail, say Officials

Authorities here have sent 168 Rohingyas to jail after they were found living illegally in the city, officials said on Sunday.

Indian Coast Guard found boat carrying Rohingya refugees; 8 dead: MEA

The Indian coast guard has found a boat adrift in the Andaman Sea carrying Rohingya refugees, including eight people who had died, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Thursday.Speaking at a videoconference briefing, spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said that on February 11, a boat sailed from Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh carrying 64 women including 8 girls and 26 men including 5 boys."The engine of the boat failed on February 15 and since then it has been drifting. Due to the severe conditions, we understand that eight occupants have died and one of the occupants had been missing since February 15," Srivastava said."When we learnt of the boat in distress, we immediately dispatched two coast guard ships to provide food, water and medical assistance to the occupants. Seven of them were administered IV fluids," he added.The spokesperson stated that around 47 of the boat's occupants possessed identity cards issued to them by the UNHCR office in Bangladesh, which stated that they were ...

UN: India searching for Rohingya refugees adrift without food, water

The boat was believed to have left Bangladesh two weeks ago and then broken down at sea

Illegal Rohingya immigrants living in 12 states, UTs: Govt to Rajya Sabha

The minister said detection and deportation of illegal migrants, including the Rohingya from Myanmar, after due process of nationality verification was a continuous process

Bangladesh starts Rohingya refugee relocation, sends 1,500 to remote island

Authorities in Bangladesh started sending a first group of more than 1,500 Rohingya refugees to an isolated island despite calls by human rights groups for a halt to the process

SC to hear PIL on Rohingyas, Bangladeshis' deportation in four weeks

The plea has sought a direction to the Centre and the state governments to identify, detain and deport all illegal immigrants and infiltrators

Refugee status or deportation for Rohingyas? SC may rule before CJI retires

The Rohingya petitioners have said that the UNHCR in 2016 registered and recognised the 40,000-odd Rohingyas in India and granted refugee identity cards to them

31 Rohingya refugees pushed to Indian territory by Bangladesh forces: BSF

On January 18, BSF troops posted at the border observed 'suspicious movement' from the Bangladesh territory. Later, the Border Guards Bangladesh made a telephone call and confirmed the activity

UNHCR seeks clarification from India after it deports Rohingyas to Myanmar

A Rohingya family of five -- parents and three children -- was sent back to Myanmar on Thursday

Rohingya refugees should be free to move, not confined to camps: US

Dhaka and Naypyidaw have agreed last month to begin by mid-November the repatriation of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who fled to Bangladesh to escape a Myanmar army crackdown

'We don't want to leave India', say Rohingya refugees as govt deports seven

Around 600 km south of Jammu, residents of a makeshift refugee camp in Delhi's Shaheen Bagh also said they fear deportation

More than a million Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh camps

The registration is aimed partly at aiding repatriation of the refugees