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UNFPA News
April 28, 2018
COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh – Early monsoon rains have arrived in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, where hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees are living in flimsy tents of bamboo and tarpaulin, renewing fears of flooding, mudslides, water-borne diseases and further displacement among an alreadyÃâà...
Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
April 28, 2018
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Citizen
April 27, 2018
The children can't believe their luck: storms and showers have turned their dirt football pitch into a lake. Youngsters scamper and splash through the murky water, chasing one another, leaping and laughing. Any entertainment is welcome in Dadaab, one of the biggest refugee bases in the world.
Jamaica Observer
April 26, 2018
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) — Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has reiterated his administration's position regarding the repatriation of 82 Venezuelan nationals last week, stating that the twin island republic adhered to the highest standards in handling the matter. During Thursday's Post-Cabinet pressÃâà...
ReliefWeb
April 25, 2018
Refugee camps in Tindouf, Algeria, have long been run by the Polisario movement, which seeks an independent state in Western Sahara, also claimed by Morocco. But a new generation of Sahrawi refugees is growing fractious as aid dwindles and diplomatic efforts fail to deliver a settlement. HannahÃâà...
Tricycle
April 25, 2018
The family of five Rohingya who returned to Myanmar, according to Bangladesh, did not come from Rohingya refugee camps, but rather came from the “no man's land” between Myanmar and Bangladesh where thousands of Rohingya fleeing Myanmar are currently said to linger. Both the UN and theÃâà...
Myanmar Times
April 24, 2018
“We will continue to try to close down other refugee camps in the state,” he said. Since last year, the government has been implementing 57 of the 88 recommendations by the Kofi Annan-led Advisory Commission on Rakhine State, and closing down refugee camps is one of these. U Win Myat Aye saidÃâà...
UT The Daily Texan
April 23, 2018
On Sunday, Texas Hillel and the UT chapter of the White Rose Society hosted an event to package 900 hygiene kits to send to people living in refugee camps. The White Rose Society is an organization dedicated to genocide prevention and Holocaust remembrance, and Texas Hillel is an organizationÃâà...
Sahara Press Service
April 20, 2018
Madrid, April 19, 2018 (SPS) - A specialized Spanish medical team has just visited the Sahrawi refugee camps to perform surgeries and treat kidney diseases, the Andalusian health service said. This 19th Andalusian medical mission from this Spanish region will continue until 24 April. The mission alsoÃâà...
The Daily News of Newburyport
April 18, 2018
NEWBURYPORT — In an effort to scratch her itch from the travel bug, Julia Petras took the road less traveled to Dhaka, Bangladesh, where she used her nursing skills to create well-equipped clinics in Rohingya refugee camps. Petras, 26, who recently returned from her third, two-month trip to Bangladesh,Ãâà...
Syracuse.com
April 16, 2018
This bag, labeled "home," is part of Odeh's piece "The Red Carpet." The bags are the same as the ones used when organizations send donated goods to refugee camps. Odeh, who has volunteered with several refugee assistance organizations, has always been struck by the things people donate to send.
Nikkei Asian Review
April 15, 2018
COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh -- In the end of February, 36-year-old Rohingya refugee Roshid Ahammad started working at a grocery store owned by a Bangladeshi, selling tobacco, eggs and beverages, earning about 4,000 taka ($48) a month. While he says he still wants to return to Myanmar, where thereÃâà...
HuffPost
April 3, 2018
But the risk grows with the limited care and paper-thin resources in refugee camps like Bidi Bidi. Communities already weakened by war and forced from their homes are more vulnerable to disease. All crowded camps face threats of infection, although the nature of the disease changes from place to place.
The Independent
April 3, 2018
Myanmar's panel of international advisers on Rohingya issues said on Tuesday that the coming monsoon season could bring "enormous deaths" as refugee camps in neighbouring Bangladesh are not built to withstand the storms. Rights groups say some 700,000 mostly Muslim Rohingya have fledÃâà...
Allentown Morning Call
April 2, 2018
LVHN doctor treats the sick and traumatized in Rohingya refugee camps. Caring for Muslim Rohingya refugees. Dr. Najma Khanani, a Lehigh Valley Health Network hospitalist, spent a week in March caring for some of the nearly 700,000 Muslim Rohingya refugees who escaped the violent militaryÃâà...
ReliefWeb
March 23, 2018
Opened in 2012, near Jordan's border with Syria, the 5.2-square-kilometer settlement is now home to nearly 80,000 Syrian refugees. Like many other refugee camps around the world, it ended up growing well beyond initial plans. Moving around the camp has become so challenging that the refugees waitÃâà...
Voice of America
March 22, 2018
Al-Zaatari is one of hundreds of camps where people forced from their homelands by armed conflicts and civil wars go, hoping that one day they will go back home. Opened in 2012, near Jordan's border with Syria, the 5.2-square-kilometer settlement is now home to nearly 80,000 Syrian refugees.
Glamour
March 22, 2018
She lived in refugee camps in Nepal for nearly 25 years. Over five years ago, her family began the process of resettling. Her family—grandmother, mother, two sisters, brother, and a niece and nephew—were placed in Omaha, Nebraska, where there's a robust community of Bhutanese refugees. Last yearÃâà...
Reliefweb
March 21, 2018
Since May 2017, REACH has worked with the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) and the Refugee Consortium of Kenya on developing tools and methodologies for data collection in Dadaab refugee camps, and at key bordercrossing points between Kenya and Somalia. This factsheet provides anÃâà...
UN News
March 21, 2018
UN agency envoy Cate Blanchett warns of 'race against time' as Rohingya refugee camps brace for monsoon rains. UNHCR/Hector Perez. In Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Cate Blanchett meets 28-year-old Jhura who fled Myanmar with her two children when her village wasÃâà...
ucanews
March 21, 2018
Khorshed Alam, 27, who oversees the marketplace on behalf of the landowner, says there are about 1,000 small businesses run by Rohingya in 12 formal and informal refugee camps in the area. "We collect a small fee from these businesses on a daily basis as rent. They also pay to keep the place clean,Ãâà...
PRI
March 19, 2018
With already tenuous housing, the looming monsoon season threatens Rohingya refugee camps. PRI's The World. March 19, 2018 Ãâ÷ 5:15 PM EDT. By Ashish Malhotra .... Cyclone and rainy seasons loom in Bangladesh, putting refugee camps in peril. But after witnessing multiple atrocities in Myanmar, Norangiz says “IÃâà...
Borgen Project
March 15, 2018
SEATTLE — Refugees around the world have been forced from their homes by violence and discrimination, from Myanmar refugees fleeing genocide to South Sudanese escaping years of violence. When refugees escape from their own nation, their struggles only grow. Many refugee camps areÃâà...
eLearningInside News
March 15, 2018
The Dubai International Humanitarian Aid and Development (DIHAD) Conference and Exhibition took place last week from March 5 to 7. A highlight of this year's conference was the announcement of a new initiative designed to broaden access to wifi and eLearning in refugee camps.
AllAfrica.com
March 14, 2018
Maiduguri — REFUGEE rights groups have bemoaned the imminent closure of camps housing millions of Nigerians displaced by the Boko Haram terror northeast of the country. The West African country is planning to close all refugee camps by May and facilitate large-scale returns in the Borno State,Ãâà...
Radio Ergo (blog)
March 13, 2018
(ERGO) – Halima Haji (not her real name), a Somali refugee living in Kenya's Dadaab camps, has suffered from fistula for 22 years and faces a miserable life ahead of her with no immediate hope of treatment. Halima, in her early 50s and from Afmadow in Lower Juba, has raised her children alone afterÃâà...
Hartford Courant
March 12, 2018
“It's such an overcrowded space in the refugee camps, their immune systems have been compromised,” he said. “They're packed in, and they haven't been able to rest.” Anwar, a Yale-educated physician from Pakistan, became Connecticut's first Muslim mayor in 2013. Fortune has smiled on his life, he saidÃâà...
Asia Times
March 11, 2018
Since then, the displaced Pandits have been living at various government-funded refugee camps, including Purkhoo, Muthi and Mishriwala. Between 2011 to 2012, the Pandits, along with migrant Muslim and Sikh families, were shifted to a large settlement known as Jagti. The camp, which is about 20Ãâà...
InfoMigrants
March 8, 2018
A spokesman for Turkey's foreign ministry, Hami Aksoy, said on Tuesday that new refugee camps would be established in nine different regions in Syria including Azaz, Elbil, Tugli, Teleffer, Naddah, Bardakh and Masad Rufi. Turkish humanitarian agencies had earlier announced plans to establish campÃâà...
The Portland Mercury
March 8, 2018
Born to an American mother and a Kenyan father in New York City in 1965, Fazal Sheikh has been photographing displaced people for the past 25 years. But more than just taking their pictures, he's been listening to their stories, getting to know them intimately, giving them a voice and putting names andÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
March 7, 2018
Abuja — Cameroonian military personnel are reportedly infiltrating refugee camps in Nigeria and abducting their compatriots fleeing persecution by the government in the Central African country. The reports come as the number of Cameroon nationals seeking refuge in Nigeria rises steadily amid allegedÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 6, 2018
Turkey will set up refugee camps with a total capacity of 170,000 at various locations under the control of Turkish army and Turkish-backed rebels, Hami Aksoy, the Turkish foreign ministry spokesman, said. Aksoy told reporters in the capital Ankara on Tuesday that the camps are in the process of being builtÃâà...
BBC News
March 5, 2018
Joss Stone has been on a world tour with a difference - trying to play gigs in as many countries as she can. The Devon singer has played in more than 130 countries and has been trying to offer help to charities in each. In Djibouti she was asked for help sourcing instruments and turned to Hannah Walker,Ãâà...
UN News
February 27, 2018
A view of the Kutupalong Extension refugee camp spanning over 3,000 acres in Cox's Bazar, southern Bangladesh. 27 February 2018. Humanitarian Aid. Against the backdrop of the fast approaching wet season in Bangladesh, United Nations relief agencies are working flat out to strengthen vital infrastructure and boostÃâà...
La Croix International
February 26, 2018
Grasping her blanket-wrapped toddler in one arm and identity papers under the other, a young Syrian mother from Aleppo enters a bus emblazoned with the Red Cross of the Knights of Malta that has just arrived at the Joub Jannine refugee camp in Lebanon. Stethoscope around his neck and armed with aÃâà...
BU Today
February 26, 2018
We went to the refugee camps to do some interviews with residents and find out what needs we, as engineers and public health workers, might be able to address. There was something both heartbreaking and hopeful about the situation. There were children who were running around and playing togetherÃâà...
HuffPost
February 10, 2018
The World Health Organization has officially recorded over 300 deaths in Bangladesh's refugee camps, 40 percent of them children under five. But the real death toll is likely much higher. Even to be in line with Myanmar's general mortality rate of 8 people per 1,000 per year, reported deaths in theÃâà...
Thomson Reuters Foundation
February 9, 2018
Mike Noyes, head of humanitarian response at ActionAid UK, comments on reports that Boris Johnson is due to visit Rohingya refugees at Cox's Bazaar, Bangladesh, tomorrow (Sat 10th February). "> Newsletter sign up: Most Popular. Zambia taps climate fund to battle worsening drought Ãâ÷ Cities, scientistsÃâà...
Inter Press Service
December 31, 1999
“I am happy to be at Kutupalang and Balukhali refugee camps in Cox's Bazar witnessing the joint work of IOM and Ksrelief and IOM's support to the Rohingya minority. Our work together is a model of joint compassion for those in need and an example of many other excellent partner projects globally, ” saidÃâà...
Nasdaq
December 31, 1999
By Shoon Naing. YANGON, April 19 (Reuters) - A Myanmar minister expressed concerns on Thursday about "very poor conditions" in Rohingya refugee camps in neighbouring Bangladesh, and said repatriation of the Muslim minority should start as soon as possible due to the coming monsoon season.
Karen News
December 31, 1999
Some schools in the Karen refugee camps are facing difficulties to continue teaching in upcoming years due to lack of funding, according to education officials from the refugee camps. The Karen Refugee Committee Education Entity's chair Naw Daborah Htoo said these schools are facing difficulties sinceÃâà...
Voice of America
December 31, 1999
Conflicts across the Middle East have had a tremendously adverse effect on children, the most vulnerable members of the population. With the Syrian civil war now in its seventh year and the Iraqi territories retaken from the Islamic State still unstable, millions of children in refugee camps have had to spendÃâà...
Voice of America
December 31, 1999
Hundreds of displaced Iraqis who returned to their homes after the defeat of the Islamic State are now going back to Kurdish refugee camps, due to a lack of services and an impasse in reconstruction, Kurdish and Iraqi officials said. Falah Mustafa Bakir, the Kurdistan region's foreign relations minister, hasÃâà...
Fergus Falls Daily Journal
December 31, 1999
Over 12 million people live in refugee camps. The Fergus Falls Public Library, in partnership with the City of Fergus Falls Human Rights Commission and Fergus Area College Foundation, is showing a documentary and hosting a community conversation about refugee camps. We will show theÃâà...
Science Magazine
December 31, 1999
In 2015, in the name of science, more than 800 teenage boys and girls in northern Jordan each allowed 100 strands of hair to be snipped from the crowns of their heads. Roughly half the teens were Syrian refugees, the other half Jordanians living in the area. The hair, molecular biologist Rana DajaniÃâà...
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