Rapports

CARE Bangladesh has been distributing cooked food – often door to door – to over 3,500 people, especially women and children, living in different makeshift camps. People are arriving in the camps with no food supplies, and…

Highlights: Severe floods in 2017 have affected at least 8 million people, causing deaths and injuries, loss of livestock and food supplies, and damage to housing and infrastructure. The floods caused severe damage to the agriculture sector, including…

On 4 October, following the visit by the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator and the executive Director of UNICEF, the UN issued a revised response plan for the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. The plan requires US$ 434…

By William Lacy Swing, Director General, International Organization for Migration (IOM) Geneva - In late August, I was alerted by our Chief of Mission in Dhaka to a new exodus of people fleeing Myanmar’s North Rakhine State…

UN Migration Agency Appeals for USD 120 million to Support over 500,000 Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh Cox's Bazar – Over 500,000 newly arrived Rohingya refugees are now living in dire conditions in Bangladesh's Cox Bazar region. IOM,…

More than half a million people have fled to Bangladesh in little over a month, escaping violence in Rakhine State in neighbouring Myanmar. CAFOD, the Catholic Church’s overseas aid agency in England and Wales, is responding to…

Kuala Lumpur, 3 October 2017 – Amid a dramatic increase in the number of refugees fleeing violence in Myanmar’s Northern Rakhine state, MERCY Malaysia continues to call for urgent action to provide relief for refugees in…

Leading UK aid agencies today [Wednesday 4 October] announced a joint fundraising appeal to help the hundreds of thousands of people fleeing their homes in Myanmar who are in urgent need of shelter, medical care, water…

OVERVIEW OF THE CRISIS Violence in Rakhine State, Myanmar, which began on 25 August 2017 has driven an estimated 509,000 Rohingya across the border into Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. That day, insurgents attacked army and police posts in…

The first Finnish Red Cross aid workers will be flying to Bangladesh tomorrow at the earliest. The Disaster Relief Fund has granted 500,000 euros to managing the refugee crisis. The refugees’ situation in the Cox’s Bazar area…