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  • Over a quarter of a million Rohingya refugees from Myanmar have now been jointly registered and provided with identity cards by the Bangladesh authorities and UNHCR.
    highlight 17 May 2019 (4 years ago)
    Myanmar / Myanmar - Asylum-seekers
  • Over the past 10 days UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has received reports of some 30 improvised rafts arriving from Myanmar, carrying more than a thousand people. Unable to pay for the crossing, refugees are building rafts from whatever material they can get their hands on – mostly bamboo poles and empty jerry cans tied together with rope and covered with plastic sheets. More than 200 Rohingya refugees are known to have drowned in shipwrecks and boat incidents since the start of the crisis on 25 August.
    highlight 17 Nov 2017 (6 years ago)
    Bangladesh / Myanmar - Asylum-seekers
  • PAKISTAN: Lahore, UNHCR Pakistan Representative, Ruvendrini Menikdiwela received Shaukat Khanam Memorial Cancer Hospital Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Awards 2018 in Lahore from Majeeb-ur-Rehman Shami. UNHCR donated USD 6.2 million for radiotherapy machines for SKMCH Peshawar to support free-of-cost treatment to cancer patients, including Afghan refugees.
    highlight 15 Apr 2019 (4 years ago)
    Pakistan (Islamic Republic of) Pakistan / Afghanistan - Refugees
  • Registration, including birth registration, for all refugees is critical. UNHCR’s family counting exercise which began on 3 October has now been completed. UNHCR teams continue to count new arrivals and update the data for families who may move within settlements. In parallel, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MoHA) is conducting biometrics registration for some 830,000 individuals, including new arrivals. UNHCR will work jointly with authorities to update data records and share with the authorities complementary data which UNHCR gathered on the location of individuals and on family composition. This is expected to result in good data set that will enable UNHCR and the authorities to better plan together, with other partners.
    highlight 21 Dec 2017 (6 years ago)
    Bangladesh / Myanmar - Asylum-seekers
  • Results from the pilot survey by the Mae Fah Luang Foundation (MFLF) in Mae La camp have now been released through the media
    highlight 02 Oct 2013 (10 years ago)
    / Myanmar - Refugees
  • Roya, 20, an Afghan refugee, works in a tailoring workshop in Sarvestan refugee settlement, in Iran’s southern Fars province, along with around 50 other refugee women. The workshop was established by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and later expanded by the World Food Programme (WFP). It switched its production line at the start of the pandemic to make hygiene masks, in an example of refugees’ direct involvement in the fight against COVID-19, but also of their effort to safeguard their monthly income. Since February 2020, when the first COVID-19 cases were officially recorded in Iran, Roya and her fellow refugee tailors have produced more than 10,000 masks per day, which are delivered to health and humanitarian service providers across the country.
    highlight 14 Jan 2021 (3 years ago)
    Iran (Islamic Republic of) Afghanistan / Afghanistan - Refugees
  • SE Consultation Meeting will be held on 17th January 2014. (Time and Venue TBC)
    highlight 16 Dec 2013 (10 years ago)
    / Myanmar - Refugees
  • Since Sunday night, an estimated 10,000 to 15,000 Rohingya refugees have entered Bangladesh through the Anjuman Para border crossing point in Ukhia district in the country’s south-east. Many say they had initially chosen to remain in their homes in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine state despite repeated threats to leave or be killed. They finally fled when their villages were set on fire. The refugees UNHCR staff spoke to yesterday described walking for around a week to reach the Bangladesh border. Some crossed into the country on Sunday night, others throughout Monday in the heat and rain.
    highlight 17 Oct 2017 (6 years ago)
    Bangladesh / Myanmar - Asylum-seekers
  • TBC - Updated 2013 population figures for the refugee camps on the Thailand-Myanmar border show that the net population decreased 9,044 or 7.1% in 2013.
    highlight 04 Feb 2014 (10 years ago)
    / Myanmar - Refugees
  • TBC releases semi-annual 6-Month Report with information on programmes, aid development and discussion on current conditions for return to Burma/Myanmar.
    highlight 04 Oct 2013 (10 years ago)
    / Myanmar - Refugees