Rapports

By Caroline Gluck in Chakmarkul refugee site, Bangladesh Winds and first heavy rains pound fragile landscape sheltering some 700,000 refugees, triggering landslides that killed one refugee and injured others amid ongoing emergency response. After two days of heavy…

Since January 2018, 9,286 refugees have arrived in Bangladesh, with almost 250 individuals arriving in the last two weeks. Refugees continue to cross the border into Bangladesh, more than half of whom are women and children. UNHCR…

Bangladesh Heavy rains have been ongoing in Cox’s Bazar since 9 June, causing flooding, landslides, and water logging in the camps where 915,000 Rohingya refugees are hosted. More than 10,000 people have been affected and about 200 people…

Cox’s Bazar – Conditions in the Rohingya refugee camps of southern Bangladesh are further deteriorating as torrential rains that began on Saturday (09/06) continue to trigger landslides and flooding. Humanitarian agencies reported some 29 incidents in…

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Andrej Mahecic – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The first heavy rains…

Cox’s Bazar/Kuala Lumpur/Geneva, 12 June 2018 – Days of drenching rain have triggered floods and landslides across camps housing hundreds of thousands of people in Cox’s Bazar. Bangladesh’s meteorological office says that 138 millimetres (5.4 inches) of…

Heavy Monsoon rains which started on 9 June 2018 have resulted in significant structural damage in the camps in Cox’s Bazar. As Bangladesh’s annual wet season has arrived, IOM is working against the clock to secure…

Since 25 August 2017, extreme violence in Rakhine State, Myanmar, has driven an estimated 702,160 Rohingya refugees across the border into Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Generations of statelessness imposed vulnerabilities on these people even before…

702,000 New Rohingya arrivals since 25 August 2017 in Cox’s Bazar 915,00 Total Rohingya Population in Cox’s Bazar 1.3 Million People in Need in Cox’s Bazar Key Features In the newly allocated land on the west side of Kutupalong-Balukhali Expansion Site, facilities including…

KEY FIGURES 200,000 individuals at risk of landslides/floods in camps (25,000 at very high-risk). 883 community facilities are estimated to be at risk of landslides/floods. 21,012 refugees relocated due to risk of landslide or flooding as part of mitigation…