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Rights bodies appeal to Indonesia not to push back Rohingya   Sat, Jun 05 2021 11:29:10 AM By Anwesha Bhaumik Kolkata, Jun 5 (IANS): Human rights groups have appealed to Indonesia not to push back the 81 Rohingya refugees who landed on the countrys Aceh coast in a ramshackle boat. "The 81 refugees have landed on Idaman Island in Aceh. We are told they are okay," said Chris Lewa, director of the Arakan Project, that has researched the Rohingya issue for decades. But speaking to IANS, Lewa said...

Article content DHAKA — A boat carrying dozens of Rohingya refugees that set sail in February but had been adrift in the Andaman Sea with engine failure has landed on an Indonesian island after a voyage of more than 100 days, a human rights official said on Friday. The vessel sailed on Feb. 11 from Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh carrying 90 Rohingya refugees, most of them women and children, with the hope of reaching Malaysia. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your ...

Rohingya refugee boat lands in Indonesia after 113-day voyage

A boat carrying dozens of Rohingya refugees that set sail in February but had been adrift in the Andaman Sea with engine failure has landed on an Indo..|News Track

Global civil society statement on Myanmar Format We, the undersigned organizations, call on the United Nations Security Council to urgently impose a comprehensive global arms embargo on Myanmar to help prevent further violations of human rights against peaceful protesters and others opposing military rule. In recent weeks, Myanmar security forces have killed hundreds of people, including dozens of children, merely for exercising their rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly. Since...

Malaysia-bound and fleeing Bangladesh, Rohingya Muslim refugees are feared lost at sea CNN 1 hr ago By Priyali Sur and Rebecca Wright, CNN © Courtesy Gule Jaane Noor Kayas wanted more from life than was possible in a crowded refugee camp in Bangladesh. Noor Kayas fled the refugee camp without telling anyone at home. At sea the next morning, the teenager used a satellite phone to call her mother, Gule Jaan, 43, to say she was heading for Malaysia on a small wooden boat, pack...

Noor Kayas fled the refugee camp without telling anyone at home. At sea the next morning, the teenager used a satellite phone to call her mother, Gule Jaan, 43, to say she was heading for Malaysia on a small wooden boat, packed with 87 Rohingya refugees, including 65 women and girls. Some were fleeing what their families say is the increased risk of sexual assault and rape during the pandemic in the sprawling refugee camps of Cox’s Bazar, in Bangladesh, home to more than 1 million displaced p...

A delegation from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation calls itself satisfied with the infrastructure it saw on Bhashan Char, though UN human rights rapporteur Yanghee Lee says she is not yet sure the island is truly habitable.

Indian coast guard finds 81 Rohingyas adrift at sea Asks Bangladesh to take them Reuters, New Delhi Reuters, New Delhi Indias coast guard found 81 survivors and eight dead on a boat crammed with Muslim Rohingya refugees adrift in the Andaman Sea, and were repairing the vessel so that it can return safely to Bangladesh, Indian officials said yesterday. The Indian government was in discussions with Bangladesh to facilitate the safe return of the vessel,...

UNHCR informed that the Indian coast guard had answered its plea to look for a boat carrying Rohingya refugees believed to be adrift in the Andaman Sea.