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Rohingya refugees are able to access basic healthcare, but they find it difficult to access specialised care, often leading to high out of pocket expenditure and debt

The Azadi Project that bestowed the award took note of her coverage of Manipur violence and her consistent reportage on migrant workers in Kerala.

Child’s death follows hunger strike at Jammu & Kashmir jail amid increasing hostility towards 40,000 refugees ahead of elections

The restricted rights, harassment, and detention Rohingya face in India increasingly echo some of the same persecution they faced in Myanmar.

Aid groups estimate there are some 40,000 Rohingya in India, about half of whom are registered as refugees with the United Nations

NEW DELHI: In a small Rohingya neighborhood in Jamia Nagar, central Delhi, Tasmida Johar lives like any other girl from the refugee community, but with an achievement only she has managed so far: university graduation. Johar and her parents lost everything and became refugees in 2005, when she was seven years old. They fled Rakhine State in Myanmar for neighboring Bangladesh,

JAKARTA/NEW DELHI: Activists called on the Indonesian government on Saturday to rescue hundreds of Rohingya refugees who have been adrift for weeks on boats in the Indian Ocean, amid reports of the passengers dying onboard broken vessels. Two boats carrying refugees, including women and children, entered Indonesian waters near the northernmost province of Aceh on Friday

Believed to be near Malaysian waters, the boat, carrying over 160 Rohingya refugees, had left from Bangladesh on 25 November, where over a million Rohingya had escaped to in 2017 following the genocide of the ethnic group in Myanmar’s Rakhine State.

This 20-Year-Old Spent UKs COVID-19 Lockdown Fighting Period Poverty Among Refugees Ella Lambert has sent nearly 2,500 pads to refugee camps in Greece and Lebanon. Why Global Citizens Should Care The UN’s Global Goal 5 is about gender equality and improving the lives and livelihoods of women and girls; while Goal 6 calls for clean water and sanitation for all. Small but mighty projects like this one help achieve both those objectives, helping to bring dignity, improved health, and better hygi...