Bangladesh and Myanmar agreed in late October to begin repatriation of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees who fled Myanmar to escape an army crackdown, even though the United Nations’ refugee agency and aid groups say doubts persist about their... read more

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A Rohingya boy peeks out from behind the door of a madrasa, or a religious school, at a camp on the outskirts of Jammu. More than 700,000 Rohingya, according to UN agencies, have escaped Rakhine to neighbouring Bangladesh over the past year, bringing accounts of mass killings, arson, and rapes by the Myanmar army. An estimated 40,000 Rohingya, a largely stateless Muslim minority, live in India.

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The UN High Commissioner for Refugees said in a statement that t was “shocked” by the deaths and called for urgent action to reduce the continuing loss of life. read more

Refugees seen at Chandeni camp 2. The Supreme Court on May 11 designated local sub-divisional magistrates as nodal officers to address concerns about healthcare, food, sanitation and education of Rohingya refugees living in Haryana and Delhi camps. In the run up to the World Refugee Day, Hindustan Times found all camps in Mewat lacked drinking water and proper sanitation.

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The current figure is equivalent to the entire population of Thailand, and the number of people forcibly displaced equates to one in every 110 persons worldwide read more

As the Myanmar army’s bombs started falling near her home in Kachin state, Nlam Numrang Doi (C) and her neighbors decided they had no choice but to grab what they could and scatter into the jungle. “We were in so much trouble, I couldn’t even swallow my food,” the 92-year-old recalled. “If we stayed in the village, we didn’t know what could happen to us.”

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Syrian refugees who crossed the Evros river, the natural border between Greece and Turkey, board a police truck transferring them to a reception centre, near the village of Nea Vyssa, Greece. As dawn breaks over the waterlogged plain along the border, an outline of refugees emerges through the morning haze, picking their way through a road well travelled by thousands before them.

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Sunday morning’s fire wiped out the refugees’ savings within a matter of minutes. Another challenge for the Rohingyas would be to re-obtain their United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) cards issued to them at the point of settling in ... read more

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On March 13, eighty Rohingya refugees belonging to 27 families alighted at Hardaha village on the outskirts of Kolkata and proceeded to Makhal Tala, where tents were set up for them. They all came from Nuh in Haryana having lived in refugee camps for several months. However, upon their arrival rumour spread fast that batches of Rohingya had crossed the Indo-Bangladesh border in Parganas district and come to settle here.

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