Rohingya refugees

News
28 August 2023
Myanmar junta detains 27 Rohingya in Ayeyarwaddy’s Kyangin Township
Bangladesh security personnel patrol inside a camp as Rohingya refugees buy groceries from shops during the lockdown of Cox's Bazar district (AFP Photo/Mohammad Kalam)
News
15 May 2020
First COVID-19 case found in refugee camps in...
A Rohingya man has become the first person to test positive for COVID-19 in the vast...
High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet, listen to speeches during the High-Level Segment of the 43rd session of the Human Rights Council, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, 27 February 2020. Photo: EPA
News
28 April 2020
UN rights chief urges Bangladesh to accept...
A top UN official has urged Bangladesh to let two stranded boatloads of starving Rohingya...
Bangladesh's government has ordered increased patrols in the Bay of Bengal (AFP Photo)
News
24 April 2020
Bangladesh to turn back new refugee boats:...
Bangladesh will not accept two boats carrying hundreds of reportedly starving Rohingya...
Released Rohingya prisoners wearing face masks amid concerns of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic arrive in Sittwe jetty in Rakhine State after being transported by military boat on April 20, 2020. Photo: AFP
News
21 April 2020
Myanmar ships 800 freed prisoners back to Rakhine
Myanmar shipped hundreds of recently released Rohingya inmates back to the country's...
This handout photo taken and released on April 5, 2020 by the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency shows a wooden boat carrying suspected Rohingya migrants detained in Malaysian territorial waters off the island of Langkawi. Photo: AFP
News
19 April 2020
Malaysia turns back refugee boat over virus fears
Malaysia has denied entry to a boat carrying about 200 Rohingya due to coronavirus fears...
This handout photo taken and released on April 5, 2020 by the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency shows a wooden boat carrying suspected Rohingya migrants detained in Malaysian territorial waters off the island of Langkawi. Photo: AFP
News
19 April 2020
NGO calls for refugees to be allowed ashore
An international rights group is calling on the Malaysian government to take in asylum...
Belongings of Rohingya refugees lay on the shore as their carrier boat remains anchored nearby in Teknaf on 16 April 2020. Photo: AFP
News
18 April 2020
Dozens of refugees die, hundreds rescued from...
Sixty Rohingya died on a boat crammed with hundreds of people stranded in the Bay of...
Rescue workers carry a dead body (R) following a boat capsizing accident, in Teknaf on February 11, 2020. Photo: AFP
News
12 February 2020
At least 15 refugees drown after boat sinks off...
At least 15 women and children drowned and more than 50 others were missing after a boat...
In this handout aerial photo taken on June 19, 2019 and released on October 21 by Mukta Dinwiddie MacLaren Architects shows buildings intended to accomodate members of the Rohingya refugee community on the silt islet Bhashan Char in the Bay of Bengal. Photo: AFP
News
29 November 2019
UN offers to assess Bangladesh’s refugee island...
A UN envoy on Thursday offered technical expertise to Bangladesh to assess arrangements...
This handout picture taken on June 11, 2019 and released by Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP) on June 12 shows a boat, which was carrying a group of Rohingya Muslims, at the Tarutao Marine National Park on Rawi island, southern Thailand. Photo: Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP)/AFP
News
14 June 2019
Thai captain of shipwrecked refugee boat charged...
A Thai boat captain has been charged with smuggling 65 Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar,...
This handout picture taken on June 11, 2019 and released by Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP) on June 12 shows a group of Rohingya Muslims sitting on the sand at the Tarutao Marine National Park on Rawi island, southern Thailand. Photo: Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP)/AFP
News
13 June 2019
65 refugees found shipwrecked in Thailand
A group of 65 Rohingya Muslims have been found on a shipwrecked boat off the coast of...
A general view of a Rohingya refugees' makeshift camp in Kutubpalang, Cox Bazar district, Bangladesh. Photo: EPA
News
29 May 2019
Desperate refugees caught on cross-border...
Growing numbers of Rohingya refugees are risking their lives by crossing the closed...

Pages