31/07/2018
Cox’s Bazar. 31 July, 2018 (IOM)* – Thousands of people caught up in Bangladesh’s Rohingya refugee crisis are at risk of human trafficking, IOM, the UN Migration Agency, counter trafficking experts have warned, stressing that the scourge of exploitation can only be tackled if authorities, local and international agencies, and communities work together.
IOM Bangladesh’s Counter Trafficking Team has produced a series of three comic books which use real life stories to illustrate the dangers of trafficking to those affected by the Rohingya refugee crisis. Photo: IOM
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29/07/2018
COX’S BAZAR, BANGLADESH, 27 July 2018 (UNICEF)* – Several days of heavy monsoon rainfall in the Rohingya refugee camps of southeastern Bangladesh pose a major threat to over 100,000 children living in them, UNICEF has warned.
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28/07/2018
Cox’s Bazar, 27 July 2018 (IOM)* – UN Migration Agency (IOM) staff have been working round the clock this week, as monsoon downpours caused flooding and landslides in Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh, where almost one million people are living in bamboo and tarpaulin shelters after fleeing violence in Myanmar.
Rohingya refugees affected by heavy monsoon rains receive IOM shelter materials to help repair and secure their shelters. Photo: IOM
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24/07/2018
Rohingya refugees walk past new emergency shelters built by IOM shelter teams in the Camp 20 Extension, Cox’s Bazar. Photo: IOM July 2018.
Cox’s Bazar, 24 July 2018 (IOM)* – Shelter teams from IOM, the UN Migration Agency, working with over 19,000 Rohingya refugee and local labourers, this week completed the construction of over 1,000 new shelters as part of a rapid response project to help move refugee families most at risk from landslides during the monsoon.
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23/07/2018
UPDATES ON MYANMAR ROHINGYA GENOCIDE
Report finds “reasonable grounds” for ICC arrest warrants, identifies 22 military and police officials.
19 Jul 2018 – The Myanmar authorities made “extensive and systematic preparations” for attacks against Rohingya civilians during the weeks and months before militants attacked police on August 25, 2017, Fortify Rights said in a new report released today.
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17/07/2018
A failure to remain focused on the Rohingya refugee crisis in Bangladesh “would have tragic outcomes” for the nearly one million children, women and men living in Cox’s Bazar, on 17 July 2018 said William Lacy Swing, Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
IOM | IOM Director General Ambassador William Lacy Swing meets new mothers from the Rohingya refugee and local communities who recently gave birth at an IOM medical facility in the world’s biggest refugee settlement, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.
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12/07/2018
Painting a grim picture of villages being burned to the ground and other “bone-chilling” accounts he heard from Rohingya refugees who fled violence in Myanmar, the UN chief has called on the world to answer their calls for help with real action.
UNHCR/Caroline Gluck A Rohingya boy walks up steps in a rain-damaged section of the Chakmarkul refugee settlement.
“Small children butchered in front of their parents. Girls and women gang-raped while family members were tortured and killed,” United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said on 11 July 2018 in a Washington Post opinion piece, adding: “Nothing could have prepared me for the bone-chilling accounts.”
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07/07/2018
Rohingya refugees sheltering in Bangladesh will soon have credit card-sized plastic IDs – many possessing, for the first time ever, an individual identity document – providing another level of protection, according to the United Nations refugee agency.
UNICEF/LeMoyne A Rohingya refugee carries a child in a basket as he and others who crossed the Naf River the night before carry their belongings as they make their way through a no-man’s land area along the border between Myanmar and Bangladesh.
The exercise, which began at the end of June, is expected to take up to six months to complete.
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05/07/2018
Myanmar should “have some shame” after attempting to convince the world that it is willing to take back hundreds of thousands of refugees who fled an “ethnic cleansing campaign” last year, given that “not a single” one has returned officially, the United Nations human rights chief on 4 July 2018 warned.
Addressing the Human Rights Council after giving an update on the refugee crisis that has seen more than 700,000 Rohingya people flee to Bangladesh to escape a security clampdown in Myanmar, Zeid urged the UN Security Council to refer the Member State to the International Criminal Court (ICC) immediately.
“We are not fools,” he said.
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04/07/2018
3 July 2018 — Simple shelters that are little more than huts with bamboo sticks and plastic sheeting for walls, and tarpaulins overhead, are serving a very important purpose for refugee women and girls forced to flee their homes to the vast refugee camps of Bangladesh.
UNFPA Bangladesh/Allison Joyce | Young girls at a Women-Friendly Space at a Rohingya refugee settlement in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. The Spaces offer women and girls a safe haven where they can find sanctuary and support.
They are offering persecuted Rohingya who fled the brutal violence in Myanmar a safe haven where they can find sanctuary and support, care of UN workers and partner agencies.
Some 19 Women-Friendly Spaces (WFS), also known as women’s centres or women’s safe spaces, set up by the United Nations Population Fund (UNPFA) cater to hundreds-of-thousands of women and girls, providing healthcare and counselling, as well as professional case management for survivors of violence.
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