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Some 740,000 Rohingya refugees fled a military crackdown in August 2017 to cross into Bangladesh where 300,000 members of the persecuted Muslim minority were already in camps. (Photo: File)

More than 250,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh get first ID cards: UN

The UN refugee agency also said the registration could serve as a tool for law enforcement to help counter human trafficking.

18 May 2019 10:53 AM

The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) said in a statement it was 'closely monitoring' their situation. (Photo:Twitter)

'If we go back, we will be killed': Saudi sisters ask for help

In a Twitter account called @GeorgiaSisters, the women said they were 'trapped in Georgia' after Saudi Arabia cancelled their passports.

18 Apr 2019 4:45 PM

Even if that is a slight exaggeration, it was an amazingly inspiring endeavour, protesting against the continuing refusal to allow females aged between 10 and 50 into the Sabarimala temple in the south of the state despite a Supreme Court ruling decreeing otherwise.

The depths of patriarchal depravity

It is by no means only men, though, who construe menstruation as “unclean”, nor is the phenomenon restricted to Hindu culture.

10 Jan 2019 12:00 AM

18-year-old Saudi woman Rahaf Mohammed al-Qanun (2nd L) being escorted by a Thai immigration officer (R) and UNHCR officials at Suvarnabhumi international airport in Bangkok. (Photo: AFP)

Saudi teen is refugee, UN confirms, asks Australia to resettle

UN has found that a teenage woman who fled Saudi to Thailand is legitimate refugee and has asked Australia to take her in, officials said.

09 Jan 2019 12:42 PM

Union home minister Rajnath Singh on October 1 said the state governments have been asked to identify Rohingya refugees in their regions and collect their biometric details.

Rohingyas in city wary of giving details, fear deportation

The police, however, denies using any form of intimidation to make the Rohingyas fill the form.

11 Oct 2018 2:23 AM

To send back seven of around 40,000 Rohingyas, of whom about 14,000 are registered with UNHCR, seems like tokenism but that’s not so.

Rohingya move ill-advised

There has been too much of an unseemly hurry about this deportation.

05 Oct 2018 1:11 AM

All-Bengal Minority Youth Federation activists raise slogans during a protest against Assam’s controversial NRC draft in front of Tipu Sultan mosque in Kolkata on Tuesday. (Photo: Asian Age)

Those howling over NRC should read UN definition, says Tathagata Roy

Roy’s remarks came in the wake of a statement by West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee.

01 Aug 2018 1:45 AM

'The report was developed through remote monitoring, after the Indian and Pakistani authorities failed to grant us unconditional access to the region,' official said. (Photo: File | Representational)

Disappointed over Kashmir human rights report criticism: UNHCR

Indian media outlets' accused report such as 'nefarious conspiracy', 'Pakistan-authored report', 'fallacious', 'mala fide' etc.

18 Jul 2018 2:57 PM

An international delegation advising Myanmar toured the Taung Pyo Letwe refugee camp outside Maungdaw near the Bangladesh border (Photo: File/AFP).

Give aid agencies unhindered access to Rohingya camps: UN to Myanmar

The UNHCR also called on Myanmar 'to create conditions for a genuine and lasting solution'.

24 Jan 2018 5:22 PM

Rupert Colville said, 'You cannot dismiss entire countries and continents as ‘shitholes’, whose entire populations, who are not white, are therefore not welcome.' (Photo: AFP | File)

UN human rights office decries Trump’s ‘sh**hole’ remark as ‘racist’

Trump questioned why the US would want to have immigrants from Haiti and African nations, referring to some as 'shithole countries'.

12 Jan 2018 5:39 PM

From July to September, there were 12 new cases reported in six peacekeeping missions in the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, Liberia, Mali and South Sudan. (Photo: AP/Representational)

United Nations reports 31 allegations of sexual abuse in 3 months

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has made fighting sexual abuse by peacekeepers and UN staff a priority of his tenure.

04 Nov 2017 12:35 PM

According to sources, some Rohingya families came to UP from Jammu and Kashmir in the past two months after they started facing heat due to protests by different political outfits there.

304 Rohingyas settled in five districts of UP: Report

UNHCR has issues cards to registered refugees to ensure that they are not arbitrarily arrested or prosecuted.

02 Nov 2017 4:57 AM

At least 250 feared dead on 'Black Day' in Mediterranean

In over a year we have never seen any of these dinghies that were anything other than packed, Proactiva spokeswoman says.

24 Mar 2017 8:06 AM

Actor and UNHCR special envoy Angelina Jolie attends the annual lecture of the Sergio Vieira de Mello Foundation in Geneva. (Photo: AFP)

Angelina Jolie tears off the ‘mask’ of rising far-right

Speaking in her role as a special envoy for the UNHCR, the actress called for people to “keep the flame of internationalism alive”.

17 Mar 2017 2:51 AM

UNHCR said since the war erupted nearly 330,000 South Sudanese refugees have arrived in Sudan fleeing war and food insecurity in their country. (Photo: AP)

Food situation in Sudan to worsen as thousands flee South Sudan: UNHCR

South Sudan has been engulfed by civil war since 2013 after President Salva Kiir accused his rival of plotting a coup.

27 Feb 2017 11:16 AM

In the last couple of days around 2,200 families have returned to the Hanano housing district. (Photo: AP/Representational Image)

Aleppo: Families return to the city seeking to resume their lives

Thousands of people who were displaced by the war in Aleppo return to the city to see if they resume their livelihoods.

04 Jan 2017 8:13 PM

According to UNHCR Global Trends report, 65.3 million people (1 out of 113), were displaced from their homes due to conflict and persecution in 2015. (Photo: AFP/ Representational Image)

India one of the most welcoming countries for refugees: UNHCR

Yasuko Shimizu, the chief of mission for UNHCR in India, was awarded the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development 2015.

16 Dec 2016 6:04 PM

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