Bangladesh Rohingya response

As long as Bangladesh continues to host such large numbers of refugees it will need financial support.

Refugee camps in Bangladesh have become a source of business for vested interests.

The situation in the refugee camps has worsened over the years, causing irreversible damage to the mental health of their inhabitants.

The only education accessible to children in the world’s largest refugee settlement is provided by a network of unsupported community-based Rohingya schools.

Since 2017, Bangladesh has hosted nearly 1.1 million Rohingya refugees in crowded camps that pose increasing challenges for the country. 

The protest follows reports that refugees were offered Bangladeshi citizenship to undertake the move to Bhasan Char.

The controversial island relocation plan points to the challenges facing the resolution of the refugee crisis in southeastern Bangladesh.

The world owes Bangladesh a standing ovation for taking in an astonishing 1.3 million Rohingyas.

Bangladesh has so far successfully limited the health impact of COVID-19 in Cox’s Bazar, where upwards of 850,000 Rohingyas reside. But the international community must continue to step up and support the response.  

Conditions in Rakhine State are unlikely to be amenable to the safe return of refugees any time soon.

Bangladesh has relocated some of the Rohingya refugees in the country to an island in the Bay of Bengal.

Refugees and rights groups say that threats and inducements have been used to get refugees to move to the previously uninhabited island.