• Misplaced trust worsens plight of Rohingya refugees

    Misplaced trust worsens plight of Rohingya refugees

    Feb 01, 2022 17:49

    It is now a year since the coup by the military in Myanmar that toppled the regime of that cruel woman, Aung San Suu Kyi, but nothing has improved for the Rohingya Muslims, a million of whom continue to languish as refuges in subhuman conditions in neighboring Bangladesh.

  • Switch to LNG threatens renewable energy development in Asia

    Switch to LNG threatens renewable energy development in Asia

    Mar 25, 2021 14:21

    The Bangladeshi government’s signaled move to replace 13 under-construction coal power projects with LNG will see an opportunity to fix its power system missed. A shift to LNG would expose Bangladesh to even greater fossil-fuel price volatility.

  • Rohingya refugees suffering mental distress

    Rohingya refugees suffering mental distress

    Feb 04, 2021 19:39

    The recent coup in Myanmar compounds the nationwide instability and stress that fuel the mental-health crisis festering among Rohingya survivors and places real solutions further out of reach.

  • Far from home, Rohingya refugees face new peril on a remote island

    Far from home, Rohingya refugees face new peril on a remote island

    Nov 06, 2020 08:42

    Three years ago, a military operation in Myanmar destroyed entire Rohingya Muslim villages. UN investigators say as many as 10,000 people were killed and more than 730,000 Rohingya fled the massacre for Bangladesh. The UN called it a "textbook ethnic cleansing."

  • Rohingya refugees charge sexual assault on Bangladeshi island

    Rohingya refugees charge sexual assault on Bangladeshi island

    Sep 27, 2020 10:45

    Rohingya refugees charge they are being held against their will in jail-like conditions and subjected to rape and sexual assault on a Bangladeshi island in the Bay of Bengal.

  • COVID-19 cases spark concern in Rohingya refugee camps

    COVID-19 cases spark concern in Rohingya refugee camps

    May 27, 2020 10:36

    Internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Myanmar's Rakhine and neighboring Chin State are considered at particularly high risk of COVID-19 for a number of reasons, including active conflict and travel restrictions. More than 8,000 civilians, mostly ethnic Chin Christians, fled fighting in recent months between the military and the Arakan Army group in the Paletwa and Matupi townships which border Rakhine.

  • From Kenya to Bangladesh, mask-making has become a thriving cottage industry

    From Kenya to Bangladesh, mask-making has become a thriving cottage industry

    May 26, 2020 08:39

    Regina Catrambone, Cofounder of Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS), which has worked in Bangladesh since 2017 says “When we saw in other countries how fast the coronavirus pandemic was spreading, we thought about how we could use our resources to help prevent the spread in Bangladesh.

  • Internet curbs on Rohingya risk wider virus outbreak

    Internet curbs on Rohingya risk wider virus outbreak

    Mar 31, 2020 16:12

    Bangladeshi authorities through their official block on Internet access in the Cox’s Bazar camps have obstructed those Rohingya refugees’ right to information on how to protect themselves from contracting the coronavirus. Those restrictions also hobble the efforts of aid groups and government agencies effectively to communicate urgent health messaging to a Rohingya refugee community spread across 34 separate camps.

  • Rohingya refugees need rights, not restrictions

    Rohingya refugees need rights, not restrictions

    Nov 28, 2019 20:02

    Some high-level officials of the Bangladeshi government have recently expressed concern that the Rohingya refugees residing in their country represent a security threat to Bangladesh and the wider region. Under this premise, they have implemented a series of restrictions on the Rohingya communities in the refugee camps. But there no facts to back up their claim.

  • Bangladesh’s troubling Rohingya relocation plan

    Bangladesh’s troubling Rohingya relocation plan

    Nov 01, 2019 14:20

    In its Cox’s Bazar refugee camps, Bangladesh has generously provided a modicum of safety and dignity to the Rohingya refugee survivors of the Myanmar military campaign of widespread and systematic violence in late 2017. But the durability of that safety and dignity is now in doubt.