Rohingya refugees walk through a market inside a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, March 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu) COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh (AP) — They first faced persecution in their country. Then a deadly crackdown by Myanmar's army sent hundreds of thousands fleeing...
A local fisherman navigates past a boat carrying Rohingya refugees anchored in the waters near the coast of Labuhan Haji, Aceh province, Indonesia, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara) LABUHAN HAJI, Indonesia (AP) — About 140 weak and hungry Rohingya Muslims, mostly women...
COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh -- Looming cuts to food aid will have a "devastating" effect on the estimated million Rohingya living in sprawling Bangladeshi refugee camps, community leaders from the stateless minority said Saturday. The UN World Food Programme announced Friday it would cut back its...
Acehnesse fishermen help evacuate Rohingya children from Myanmar onto the shorelines of Lancok village, in Indonesia's North Aceh Regency on June 25, 2020. (AFP) YANGON, Myanmar – Myanmar authorities have sentenced 112 Rohingya, including a dozen children, to between two and five years in...
DHAKA, Bangladesh -- UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet said Wednesday that it remained unsafe for Rohingya refugees to return to their homes in Myanmar, nearly five years after a crackdown there sparked an exodus to neighbouring Bangladesh. United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle...
The Philippines, through the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), signed a legal framework program that will allow Rohingya refugees to enter the country and receive their tertiary education here. DFA Secretary Teodoro Locsin, Jr. signs the legal framework for the Complementary Pathways (CPath)...
KUTUPALONG, Bangladesh -- Tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh staged demonstrations on Sunday demanding repatriation back to Myanmar, where they fled a brutal military crackdown five years ago. Rohingya refugees walk a "Go home campaign" rally demanding repatriation at Kutupalong...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – Hundreds of Rohingya migrants from Myanmar escaped a detention centre in Malaysia on Wednesday after a riot broke out, with six killed on a highway as they fled, authorities said. This handout taken and released by the Royal Malaysia Police on April 20, 2022 shows...
WASHINGTON, United States – The United States has determined that the violence against the Rohingya minority committed by Myanmar's military amounted to genocide and crimes against humanity, an official told AFP Sunday. Hundreds of thousands of the mostly Muslim Rohingya community have fled...
President Duterte reiterated during the virtual plenary session of the 39th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit the Philippines' willingness to accept refugees coming from conflict-torn Myanmar. (Saw Wunna/ Unsplash) "We call on all parties to ensure the continued provisions of...
President Duterte highlighted in his speech before the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) the Philippines' "longstanding humanitarian tradition" in the government's decision to welcome refugees coming from Afghanistan. OPEN DOOR--President Rodrigo Duterte reports the Philippines' acceptance of...
The Philippines is preparing to welcome Rohingya refugees to the country and develop “complementary pathways” that would allow them to stay until a sustainable and lasting solution to their displacement in Myanmar can be found. Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) A program to welcome the...
