Myanmar

Opium poppy cultivation in the Golden Triangle stabilized in 2015 at high levels.
UNODC

Myanmar: opium cultivation down 25 per cent, but conflict areas remain 'safe haven' for drug traders

6 December 2017
The total area of opium poppy cultivation in Myanmar has decreased significantly in 2017 to 41,000 hectares, down 25 per cent from the 55,500 recorded in 2015, a United Nations survey released Wednesday has found.
Opium poppy cultivation in the Golden Triangle stabilized in 2015 at high levels.
UNODC

Myanmar peace process and heroin production interlinked: UNODC

6 December 2017
Interviews

Helping regions in Myanmar which are wracked by conflict move away from opium production is good for the economy and will help solidify the country’s peace process.

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Rohingya refugee Mubina Khatun was nine months pregnant when she fled her home in Myanmar. She gave birth to her daughter nine days ago on the Bangladesh-Myanmar border. © UNICEF/UN0144602/Brown

UNICEF shines spotlight on new mothers in Myanmar crisis

14 November 2017
Interviews

As the exodus of Rohingya Muslims continues from Myanmar to Bangladesh, UN Children’s Fund UNICEF has highlighted the plight of some of the most vulnerable: heavily pregnant women, whose

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Podcast: Inside the world’s worst humanitarian “nightmare”

2 November 2017
The Lid is On

The UN chief has called the plight of the Rohingyas in Bangladesh a “humanitarian and human rights nightmare”.

So what has it been like trying to ease the suffering on the ground?

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Mohammed Yasin, 8, is amongst the Rohingyas refugee children living in shelters at the Kutupalong makeshift camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.
UNICEF/UN0119119/Brown

Myanmar children facing “hell on earth”

20 October 2017
General News

A major alert has been issued for hundreds of thousands of Myanmar youngsters who’ve been forced to seek shelter in what’s been described as a “hell on earth” of makeshift camps in southern Bangladesh.

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Rohingya refugees reaching out for food donations been given by people from Dhaka at the at Kutupalong Makeshift Camp in Cox Bazar, Bangladesh.
UNICEF/Brown

Rohingya refugees living in ‘dire’ conditions, senior UN officials warn, appealing for assistance

4 October 2017
The human tragedy unfolding in southern Bangladesh is staggering in its scale, warned two senior United Nations officials today as they wrapped up a mission to Cox’s Bazar with calls for a “significant increase in assistance” for the thousands of Rohingyas have settled in the area after fleeing violence in neighbouring Myanmar.
Woman in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, receives food from UN and aid partners after fleeing Myanmar.
WFP/Saikat Mojumder

In Bangladesh, UN aid chief urges scaling up response for Rohingya refugee crisis

3 October 2017
With over half a million Rohingya refugees having fled their homes in Myanmar since violence erupted in late August, the top United Nations humanitarian official has underscored that the solution to the crisis needs to be found within Myanmar.
Minors make up at least 60 per cent of the Rohingya refugees who have crossed the border to Bangladesh over the past few weeks. Highly traumatized, they are arriving malnourished and injured after walking for days.
UNICEF/Brown

As Rohingya crisis continues, UNICEF seeks funds to reach 720,000 children in need

2 October 2017
Amid the deepening refugee crisis in Bangladesh and its attendant toll on children, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNCEF) launched today an appeal for its emergency response to reach some 720,000 children – both in Rohingya refugee and host communities – with protection and assistance.
Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar area, Bangladesh.
WFP/Saikat Mojumder

In Bangladesh, UN food relief agency chief urges support amid massive Rohingya influx

1 October 2017
The head of the United Nations food relief agency called today for an end to the “horrors” driving Rohingyas by the tens of thousands from their homes in Myanmar into neighboring Bangladesh.
Displaced persons near Sittwe, Myanmar in December 2013. IRIN/David Longstreath

Horrific accounts of sexual violence against Rohingya ‘just tip of the iceberg’ – UN agency

28 September 2017
Warning that the horrific accounts of rape and sexual assault against Rohingya women and girls fleeing unrest in Myanmar could be “just the tip of the iceberg,” the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) underscored the need to ensure that such violence is prevented and called for additional resources so that it can reach all those in need of assistance.