Informes

HIGHLIGHTS An estimated 688 000 Rohingya have crossed over to Bangladesh following violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state on 25 August 2017. The ongoing challenges in safe water, sanitation and hygiene raise, together with the upcoming rainy season, risk…

Witnessing the plight of refugees from Myanmar, smallholders have given them land to build temporary shelters and start over. By Joseph Surja Tripura KUTUPALONG REFUGEE CAMP EXTENSION, Bangladesh – A few years ago, rising sea levels and land…

Highlights • 671,000 new arrivals are reported as of 15 February, according to IOM Needs and Population Monitoring (NPM) Round 8 site assessment. The full dataset can be found here. The decrease is not a result of…

During the Security Council briefing on Myanmar held in New York on 13 February 2018, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, stressed that the restoration of rights is key for refugees’ voluntary, safe, and…

Situation Update Population Movement: Six Months On Six months have passed since August 2017 when the last round of violence in the Rakhine State of Myanmar began. Recent reports indicated that approximately 866,000 people (note 1) from Rakhine…

FOOD SECURITY SNAPSHOT Favourable prospects for 2018 boro rice output Paddy production in 2017 estimated marginally below-average Cereal imports in 2017/18 marketing year forecast to remain high Prices of rice and wheat higher year-on-year Favourable production prospects for 2018 boro rice Planting…

SIX MONTHS ON: NEW REPORT REVEALS EXTENT OF FEAR AND DISTRESS EXPERIENCED BY ROHINGYA CHILDREN WHO FLED TO BANGLADESH Wild elephants and snakes, violent men lurking in the forest and human traffickers on the prowl during the…

IOM Bangladesh Needs and Population Monitoring (NPM) is part of the IOM’s global Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) programming. DTM is IOM’s information management system to track and monitor population displacement during crises. Composed of several tools and…

Having fled violence, tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees living in camps in Cox's Bazar face great risks from the upcoming monsoon season, due to start in a matter of weeks. "The refugees are living in precarious…

Cox’s Bazar – It will be six months, this Sunday (25/02), since almost 700,000 Rohingya refugees fleeing violence in Myanmar started arriving in Bangladesh. In one of the world’s biggest forced migrations in recent years, around half…