Rohingya teen dreams of higher ed from squalid refugee camp
Source: Associated Press By RISHABH R. JAIN KUTUPALONG, Bangladesh (AP) — At an age when many young Rohingya women have children, Rahima Akter has other plans. From the refugee camp […]
Bangladesh: Islamic Democratic Alliance formed
Will work to strengthen the ruling 14-party alliance A new alliance named Islamic Democratic Alliance was formed today comprising of 15 political and Islamic organisations to support the ruling 14-party […]
Bangladesh says it won’t assimilate Rohingya Muslims
Source: Reuters HANOI (Reuters) – Bangladesh has no plans to take in hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees permanently, its foreign secretary said on Wednesday, adding that they “belong” […]
Rohingya Muslims seeking refuge in Bangladesh would rather die than go back
‘I Would Rather Die Than Go Back’: Rohingya Refugees Settle Into Life In Bangladesh Source: NPR By JASON BEAUBIEN The Myanmar soldiers arrived in the morning, Dildar Begum says. They surrounded […]
U.N. warns of ‘lost generation’ of Rohingya children Politics
Reuters International This content was published on August 22, 2018 Rohingya refugee children attend an Arabic school to learn to recite the Koran at Jamtoli camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, January 22, 2018. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain – RC1EDE937F60 (reuters_tickers) By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) – The United Nations warned on […]
List of Rohingya Muslims killed in Myanmar prepared as a historical evidence
The Rohingya lists: refugees compile their own record of those killed in Myanmar Source: Reuters KUTUPALONG REFUGEE CAMP, Bangladesh (Reuters) – Mohib Bullah is not your typical human rights investigator. […]
Indian state’s controversial citizens’ list unites Modi critics
Reuters International This content was published on July 31, 2018 People wait in queue to check their names on the draft list at the National Register of Citizens (NRC) centre […]
The tragic truth about cousin marriages: They can cause a litany of genetic illnesses and they’re a key factor in the deaths of two children a week in Britain, so why is it taboo to talk about them, asks SUE REID
Source: Daily Mail, UK The World Health Organisation insists that attempts to stop consanguineous marriage are ‘undesirable and inappropriate’ The stance of local councils in Britain, including multi-cultural Oldham in […]
Killings sow fear inside Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh
Reuters International This content was published on July 4, 2018 A Rohingya refugee child applies a makeover in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, July 4, 2018. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain (reuters_tickers) By Zeba […]
U.N. starts registering Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh
Source: Reuters BY Zeba Siddiqui NAYAPARA REFUGEE CAMP, Bangladesh (Reuters) – The United Nations and the Bangladesh government have started formally registering hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees who have […]
‘Everything was destroyed’: Monsoon begins to take deadly toll on Rohingya camps in Bangladesh
Source: The Washington Post By Vidhi Doshi Refugees wade through water pooled after a storm at the Chakmarkul camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, on June 10. (Kristiana Marton/Save the Children/Reuters) COX’S […]
Bangladeshi plan to relocate Rohingya to remote island ‘unrealistic’: UN
GERMAN PRESS AGENCY – DPA DHAKA AFP Photo A Bangladeshi plan to relocate 100,000 Rohingya refugees from crowded mainland camps to an island in the Bay of Bengal was deemed […]
Why the Muslim World Needs to Follow Pope Francis?
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The broader Sunni Shia conflict, with Saudi Arabia in one corner and Iran in the other, is no […]
About 60 Rohingya Babies Are Born Every Day in Refugee Camps, the U.N. Says
Source: Time By FELIZ SOLOMON Updated: May 16, 2018 10:13 PM ET | Originally published: May 17, 2018 Nine months since military violence in western Myanmar forced hundreds of thousands of […]
Islamic countries call Rohingya crisis ‘ethnic cleansing’
Source: Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A grouping of Islamic countries said Myanmar’s treatment of Rohingya Muslims is a “serious and blatant violation of international law” and it is […]
Why is Bangladesh booming?
May 06,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Kaushik Basu NEW YORK — Bangladesh has become one of Asia’s most remarkable and unexpected success stories in recent years. Once one of the […]
Top-level UN team meets Myanmar leader in Rohingya probe
Source: Associated Press NAYPYITAW, Myanmar (AP) — Ambassadors from the U.N. Security Council probing Myanmar’s crisis over its ethnic Rohingya Muslim minority met Monday with the country’s leader and military […]
Rohingya refugees tearfully plead for U.N. Security Council help
Reuters International This content was published on April 29, 2018 British United Nations Ambassador Karen Pierce consoles a twelve-year-old Rohingya refugee near Cox’s Bazar, in Bangladesh, April 29, 2018. REUTERS/Michelle […]
The slippery slope of intolerance
Source: DT Bangladesh is not and cannot be allowed to be a land of persecution. To that end, the recent anti-Ahmadiyya rally organized by Islamist group Khatme Nobuat is a dangerously regressive development, that should be cause for serious concern. This is not the first time, unfortunately, that Bangladesh has […]
Bangladesh Looks to Saudi Arabia in a Twist of Irony
April 22, 2018 Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman by James M. Dorsey Bangladesh, in a twist of irony, is looking to Saudi Arabia to fund a $ 1 billion […]
