Reports

Context and Humanitarian Needs The influx of Rohingya refugees from northern parts of Myanmar Rakhine State into Bangladesh restarted following the attacks in the Myanmar Border Guard Police posts on 25 August 2017. As of 30th September,…

A. Situation analysis Description of the disaster According to the Inter Sector Coordination Group (ISCG), as of 21 September 2017, around 607,735 people from Rakhine are reported in Cox’s Bazar. This has increased from the initial 190,000 reported…

Media Contacts: 020 7387 0200 or 07930 999 014 (out of hours) Donations can be made at www.dec.org.uk or by calling 0370 60 60 610 Spokespeople, recent photos and footage are available The Disasters Emergency Committee has raised more…

In Rakhine, food and medical assistance have reached Meyborn camp, where the approximately 2 000 residents had not received any assistance since early August. State media in Myanmar report that eight Hindu women and children were provided…

More than 300,000 women and children who have fled from Myanmar to Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh are in urgent need of safe shelter, health services, sanitary facilities and protection, warns the international aid organization CARE. “Our team…

Families are facing a malnutrition crisis in the Bangladeshi district of Cox’s Bazar, where more than half a million people, mostly Rohingya women and children, have arrived in the past six weeks after violence over the…

Bangladesh, one of the world’s poorest nations, has seen a massive influx of Rohingya people fleeing violence in Myanmar in the last 4 weeks. The extent and implications remain uncertain. Close to half-a-million (429,000) Rohingya refugees…

DHAKA, Bangladesh, 4 October 2017 - We leave Bangladesh moved by the stories of suffering that we heard from refugees fleeing the violence in Myanmar – and all the more determined that the United Nations…

Blog by Raisa Chowdhury from ACT member ICCO Cooperation on her experience from a recent visit to Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Over the years, I have come across people living in the most difficult…

South Asia experienced the worst monsoon in decades with record high rainfall recorded in parts of Northern India, Bangladesh and Nepal over the last two weeks of August, 2017. Over 41 million [i] people were affected…