2.4m refugees need resettling in 2027: UN
Almost 2.4 million refugees will need resettling next year, the United Nations said on Tuesday, at a time when a number of countries have slashed resettlement spots.
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India strands law, humanity in no man’s land
INDIA’S continued push-in strategy along the Bangladesh border reflects a blatant violation of both domestic and international laws and a dangerous departure from the principles that should govern relations between neighbouring countries. Especially alarming is the forced transfer of the Rohingyas registered with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in...
Labour migration drops by 50pc due to ME war: RMMRU
Overseas jobs decreased by 50 per cent in March 2026 compared with the same period past year amid conflicts across the Gulf states, the Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit, a non-governmental organisation, said on Wednesday...
Too little, too late for Rohingya adolescents
SYRIAN refugee Yusra Mardini, for example, not only competed for the Refugee Olympic team after fleeing war but also became the youngest goodwill ambassador for the UNHCR. Boxer Cindy Ngamba, who fled Cameroon as a child, made history by winning the first Olympic medal for the Refugee Olympic team in Paris in 2024. Muzoon Almellehan, too, rose from camp...
US may increase refugee admissions for South Africans
The United States may increase the current quota of refugees permitted into the country annually, which is now at a historic low of 7,500 people, a State Department official said Thursday.
CU holds seminar on intersecting legal regimes, refugee protection
The department of law of Chittagong University held a seminar titled Intersecting Legal Regimes and Refugee Protection: A South Asian Perspective at the CU in Chattogram on Thursday...
UNRWA chief seeks probe into killing of hundreds of staff in Gaza war
The outgoing head of the United Nations agency supporting Palestinian refugees said on Tuesday he wanted an investigation into the killing of nearly 400 UNRWA staff during the Gaza war...
Cost of waiting
MARCH 8 is International Women’s Day. And as I sat with that this morning — as a woman, as a humanitarian — I found I couldn’t separate my own reflection from the faces of the women and girls I see every day in the camps of Cox’s Bazar. Perhaps that is exactly as it should be...
EU asylum applications down but Iran concerns mount
Asylum applications to the EU dropped by almost 20 per cent in 2025, the bloc’s asylum agency said Tuesday — warning however that a crisis in Iran could result in refugee movements of ‘unprecedented magnitude’...
Harry, Meghan meet Syrian refugees, Palestinian children
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle arrived on Wednesday in Jordan, where they met with Syrian refugees at the Zaatari camp and Palestinian children evacuated from the Gaza Strip...
Ukrainian refugee women face ‘high rates’ of violence in EU: rights agency
Women who have fled the Ukraine war are experiencing ‘high rates’ of physical, sexual and psychological violence in the European Union, the bloc’s rights agency said Tuesday, calling for better protection...
Refugees in US risk detention under new DHS policy
Thousands of refugees seeking permanent US residency risk being taken into custody under a new policy unveiled this week by the Department of Homeland Security.
Flaws mark labour migration governance in 2025
WEAK governance, persistent dominance of recruitment syndicates, high migration costs and an increase in unskilled and undocumented migration marked the year 2025, making labour migration more complex. Another issue that the Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit brought to the fore in a report that it made public in Dhaka on January 7 is that although..
Labour migration became complex in 2025: RMMRU
Labour migration from Bangladesh became more complex in 2025 due to weak governance, persistent dominance of recruitment syndicates, high migration costs and a rise in unskilled and undocumented migration, said a report on the state of overseas migration...
UN condemns Israeli moves against agency for Palestinian refugees
The United Nations warned Tuesday that recent actions by Israel against the UN agency for Palestinian refugees risked depriving millions of people of basic services such as education and healthcare...
Grandi welcomes Barham Salih as newly elected UNHCR chief
UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi on Friday welcomed former Iraqi president Barham Salih for being elected as the head of the UN refugee agency...
Palestinians retrieve belongings from West Bank camp
Dozens of residents from the West Bank’s emptied Nur Shams refugee camp returned on Wednesday to retrieve belongings ahead of the Israeli military’s demolition of 25 residential buildings there...
UN says aid cuts causing refugees ‘unnecessary pain’
A wave of ‘drastic, irresponsible’ aid cuts this year have inflicted unnecessary pain on refugees, who are being vilified while their suffering is exploited by traffickers and politicians, the United Nations said Monday...
UN warns of rough winter ahead for refugees
The United Nations warned Tuesday that millions of refugees and displaced people face a gruelling winter, with far less humanitarian aid available this year as the coldest months arrive in the northern hemisphere...
From reaction to prevention
THE Rohingya refugee crisis is not the event that took place only in 2017. It is a recurring tragedy, a painful cycle of persecution, exodus and displacement. The waves of 1978, 1992, 2012 and the influx of 2017 represent a persistent and collective failure of international and regional response to a profound humanitarian challenge. While the primary responsibility for the...
UN aid for Rohingya children faces ‘funding cliff’
The United Nations warned Tuesday that its ability to help children in the sprawling Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh was rapidly shrivelling and would soon fall off a ‘funding cliff’.
50 Sudanese refugees killed in Libya shipwreck
At least 50 Sudanese refugees have died off the coast of eastern Libya after their boat caught fire, an International Organisation for Migration spokesperson said Wednesday...
Time for Dhaka to boldly take up India’s border ploys with Delhi
DELHI’S border ploys, which have been evident in the murder of Bangladeshis at the hand of India’s Border Security Force that have continued apace for years, appear to be taking an added dimension. Whilst a series of events of erecting barbed-wire and electric fences along the frontiers began with the direct involvement of Indian border guards in the final days of December...
EBL partners with Norwegian Refugee Council
Eastern Bank PLC has entered into a strategic partnership with the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), which will leverage EBL’s comprehensive range of banking products and services...
Time world leaders started acting on Rohingya issues
THE Rohingyas, more than a million of them already sheltered in Bangladesh, may face constraints as, keeping to a release of the office of the United Nations Commissioner for Refugees, there has been a fresh influx of 150,000 Rohingyas in a year and a half. This is described as the largest after the 2017 influx when three quarters of a million Rohingyas left violence...
UN estimates 2.5m refugees will need resettling in 2026
An estimated 2.5 million refugees worldwide will need to be resettled next year, the UN said Tuesday, at a time when the United States but also other nations are shrinking resettlement access.
UNHCR reports 1st voluntary Rohingya return since 2017
At least 82 Rohingyas reportedly returned spontaneously to Myanmar’s Rakhine state last week, the first known instance of voluntary repatriation since the mass exodus of 2017, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees...
Abbas, Aoun back arms under Lebanese state control
Lebanese president Joseph Aoun and Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas met in Beirut on Wednesday and backed placing all weapons under Lebanese state control, as they discussed efforts to disarm armed groups in Palestinian refugee camps...
UNHCR urges Bangladesh to shelter1.13 lakh more Rohingyas
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has recently pressed the Office of the Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner to ensure accommodation of 1.13 lakh more Rohingyas amid uncertainty of repatriation...
UN seeks nearly $1bn in aid for 1.5m Rohingyas in Bangladesh camps
The United Nations announced on Monday it was seeking nearly $1 billion to provide life-saving aid this year for some 1.5 million Rohingya refugees and their hosts in Bangladesh.