Migrants and Refugees

Children raise their hands to answer a question in class at a UNICEF learning space in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. (8 July 2019).
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Two years after exodus, Myanmar’s ‘desperate’ Rohingya youth need education, skills: UNICEF

16 August 2019
Asia Pacific

The daily struggle to survive for Myanmar’s Rohingya people in one of the world’s largest refugee settlements, has caused “overwhelming” despair and jeopardized the hopes of an entire generation, the head of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Henrietta Fore, said on Friday.

A UNHCR officer helps register Rohingya refugees in Kutupalong Refugee Camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. (24 July 2019)
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More than half a million Rohingya in Bangladesh get ID cards for first time: UN refugee agency

9 August 2019
Asia Pacific

More than 500,000 Rohingya refugees who fled a brutal crackdown in Myanmar two years ago, have received identification cards that the UN insisted on Friday were critical to safeguarding their right to return home.