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The UN and Bangladesh have started formally registering hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees who have fled a military crackdown in Burma.
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With 1.2 million refugees originating from Burma and tens of thousands more uprooted inside the country, the Southeast Asian nation was the source of the fourth-largest population of displaced people worldwide at the end of 2017, a new report by the UN refugee agency.
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Minister Win Myat Aye said a group of 450 Hindu refugees will be allowed back across the border on 22 January as the first step in the repatriation process.
The boat sank near Shah Porir Dwip, on the southern tip of Bangladesh, late on Sunday with up to 35 people on board, Bangladeshi police said.
“We will all have to ramp up our response massively, from food to shelter,” said the assistant high commissioner for operations at the U.N. refugee agency.
All of an estimated 40,000 Rohingya Muslims living in India are illegal immigrants and the government aims to deport them, a senior government official says.
UNHCR asks Bangladesh to allow it to negotiate with the US, Canada and some European countries to resettle around 1,000 Rohingya Muslims.
The influx of Rohingyas from Burma has prompted Dhaka to revive a plan to move thousands of people to this uninhabited island.
Many of the IDPs yesterday attempted to flee across the Chinese border to seek sanctuary but were turned back by the Chinese authorities.
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Under the pilot scheme, a group of 300 Rohingya would be allowed to work legally in the plantation and manufacturing sectors.
Foreign aid groups had previously been denied access to shelters amid ongoing clashes between government security forces and armed mobs.
“As long as the government doesn’t recognise their status, let alone the ability to access work legally, they are susceptible to abuse, exploitation and mistreatment.”
A new report penned by a consortium of rights groups details a forgotten episode in recent history when Mon refugees were caught between Thai and Burmese government interests.
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A programme targeting displaced Rohingya communities in Arakan has been launched.
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Citing growing hardships in their border-based camp, a group of 69 refugees has made the move back into Karen State.
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After plans to visit IDPs in Sittwe were scuttled due to a cyclone warning, UN goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie Pitt flies to Myitkyina.
The plan envisages a voluntary repatriation of 110,000 refugees residing in Thailand’s camps, drawing mixed reactions from camp leaders.
Burmese govt press cite sources claiming that relief supplies are ‘abundant’ in the camps.
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The Burmese government has rejected a proposal from the UNHCR decision regarding Burma’s ethnic Rohingya Muslims by the Organization of Islamic Countries.
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While most Australians were happily tucking into bacon and eggs on Saturday morning, Jade Horrobin was finishing off the last of her week’s refugee rations.
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As the news coverage of the migrant crisis in the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea drops away, the UN has made a renewed call for funds and action.
Thousands of refugees at camps in northern Kachin State are facing food shortages since the state government blocked aid deliveries at the end of October.
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United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) initiates a worldwide campaign titled “I Belong” to end statelessness of refugees.
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Refugees from Burma residing in Thai border camps are concerned about the lack of transparency from Thai authorities regarding repatriation, in light of a recent census poll being conducted in the camps.
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Burmese refugees living in Thailand will face challenges if they are repatriated, the UN refugee agency said on Wednesday.
A Thai Army spokesman denied reports on Monday regarding the Thai military’s intentions to repatriate within a year roughly 130,000 Burmese refugees.
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Film star and UNHCR special envoy Angelina Jolie visited a Karenni woman and her family at a refugee camp near the Thai-Burmese border on Friday, to mark World Refugee Day.
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DVB’s Aung Kyaw Zaw takes a look into two camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs) along the Burma-China border, forced to flee their homes because of conflict.
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Coinciding with Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida’s visit to Burma this week, Japan has announced 1.6 billion yen (US$16m) in support for UN programmes in Burma.
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UN Special Rapporteur to visit Arakan as protestors around the region demand that the UN, along with MSF and other international relief agencies, are forced to withdraw their operations.
