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Byline: Caroline Gluck NEGOMBO, Sri Lanka, May 31 (IPS) - Caroline Gluck is Senior Regional Public Information Officer, UNHCR, the UN refugee agency. She is based in Bangkok, ThailandThirteen-year-old Bariea, [...]

Caroline Gluck, a UNHCR spokeswoman based in southeast Bangladesh, said in an email on Monday that the boat carrying Rohingya refugees had been through difficult weathers after it was restocked [...]

Byline: Caroline Gluck, special to CNN AMMAN, Jordan (CNN) -- Sahab and her family were not willing refugees. Like many in Syria, they were forced to leave their family home [...]

The article offers information on the refugee settlement in Bangladesh Topics discussed include argument between Myanmar and Bangladesh for the settlement of Rohingya refugees; Bangladesh refused the offer from Canada for refugee settlement ; and views of Bangladesh government on settlement.

The article offers an announcement from election commission spokesman S.M Asaduzzaman on delaying of Bangladesh general election that will held on December 30, 2018 as per the appeal from opposition party Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).

The article reports that two men accused of raping and murdering a five-year-old girl in a remote area in northeast Indian state were dragged from a police station and lynched by the public.

The article reports on the refusal of Rohingya refugees living in a strip of unclaimed land between Bangladesh and Myanmar to return to Myanmar without guarantees of security and citizenship, following a meeting between officials of two countries to discuss repatriation of refugees.

The article reports on the call from the National Heritage Party (JHU) led by Champika Ranawaka of Sri Lanka for urgent reforms after the local council vote that showed the dissatisfaction among voters with Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe.

The article reports on the decision of the Indian Supreme Court to revise a river-sharing arrangement in favour of Bangalore, India, addressing its growing water needs, presenting the view of lawyer Mohan katarki who represent Karnataka, on the ruling.

2024 AUG 16 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health & Medicine Week -- Investigators discuss new findings in Glomerulosclerosis. According to news originating from St. Louis, [...]

--CHOP/Nemours Children's Health-led study leverages real-world data from six pediatric health systems in the PEDSnet database, overcoming the obstacle of scale for a rare disease- PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ [...]

2022 NOV 11 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health & Medicine Week -- Investigators publish new report on Health and Medicine. According to news reporting from [...]

Byline: olivertapia (CNN Español) -- (CNN) -- El Ejército de Myanmar dijo este lunes que había detenido a líderes políticos clave en respuesta a un fraude electoral y que había [...]

GENEVA, Switzerland -- The following information was released by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees: This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Babar Baloch - to [...]

GENEVA, Switzerland -- The following information was released by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees: This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Andrej Mahecic -- to [...]

Thousands of refugees and migrants are dying, while many are suffering extreme human rights abuses on irregular journeys between West and East Africa and Africa's Mediterranean Coast. A new report [...]

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, deplores the tragic loss of three lives and calls for an urgent investigation following a shooting at Al Khums disembarkation point in Libya last night, [...]

GENEVA, Switzerland -- The following information was released by International Organization for Migration (IOM): The International Organization for Migration (IOM), and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), are calling on Malta [...]

The Paris mayoral race heated up this week with the release of a sex tape and a new conservative enteringthe fray. In Tehran,medical centres have beenhit hard by US sanctions, [...]

Depuis le début de l'offensive du maréchal Haftar sur Tripoli le 4 avril 2019, le Haut commissariat des Nations unies aux réfugiés (HCR) n'a de cesse d'alerter quant à la [...]

A new round of violence on the southern outskirts of Tripoli on Thursday left civilians dead and wounded, triggering warnings from the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) about the worsening humanitarian [...]

Byline: JERRY HARMER, JULHAS ALAM, ASSOCIATED PRESS BANGKOK -- Lead Myanmar and Bangladesh will soon make a second attempt to start repatriating Rohingya Muslims, 700,000 of whom fled a security [...]

2021 MAR 5 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health & Medicine Week -- New research on Genetics - Medical Genetics is the subject of a report. [...]

Byline: Shibani Mahtani and Kareem FahimHONG KONG - A young Saudi woman who fled her family in fear for her life was admitted into Thailand on Monday night while the [...]

Byline: Shibani Mahtani and Kareem FahimHONG KONG - A young Saudi woman detained in a Thailand airport after fleeing her family in fear for her life will not be forcibly [...]

Byline: Shibani Mahtani and Kareem FahimHONG KONG -A young Saudi woman detained in a Thailand airport after fleeing her family in fear for her life will not be forcibly deported, [...]

2021 JAN 18 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Diabetes Week -- Investigators publish new report on Science. According to news reporting originating from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by [...]

GENEVA, Switzerland -- The following information was released by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees: 28 November 2019 UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, announced today that it is increasing its [...]

More than 100 vulnerable refugees, including several babies born in detention centres in Libya, have arrived in Rwanda on a humanitarian evacuation flight organised by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency. [...]

GENEVA, Switzerland -- The following information was released by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees: A group of refugees arrive at Kigali International Airport after a life-saving evacuation flight to [...]

WASHINGTON, DC -- The following information was released by Radio Free Asia: Hindu Rohingya refugees who fled a military crackdown in western Myanmar's Rakhine state two years ago have issued [...]

Of the 7.1 million refugee children of school age, 3.7 million - more than half - do not go to school, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, says in a report [...]

GENEVA, Switzerland -- The following information was released by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees: A UNHCR team in Bangladesh register Rohingya refugees, providing many with identity documents for the [...]

WASHINGTON, DC -- The following information was released by Radio Free Asia: Asia-Pacific nations have pledged at talks in Bangkok to take steps, including legal reforms, to tackle statelessness, a [...]

GENEVA, Switzerland -- The following information was released by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees: UNHCR officials, Volker Turk, Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, and Dominique Hyde, Director of External [...]

Just a few days of downpours and storms at the onset of monsoon earlier this month triggered landslides and floods, killing two and injuring several refugees, as well as damaging [...]

Aid workers have for months been warning of the devastation that would be caused when the monsoon rains arrive at the sprawling camps housing more than 700,000 Rohingya refugees in [...]

Byline: Hannah Ellis-Petersen and Shaikh Azizur Rahman At least three three Rohingya refugees have died in Cox's Bazar after extreme monsoon rains hit the refugee camps causing lethal mudslides. A [...]

Aid agencies have been warning of the potential for a humanitarian catastrophe over the coming months as heavy rains lash an area home to the world's largest refugee camp, AFP [...]

Local Bangladeshi police chief Abdul Khaer said that the young child was crushed in his sleep early Monday when a mud wall collapsed onto his family's shanty in Kutupalong refugee [...]

Byline: Susannah Savage UKHIA, Bangladesh - For the thousands of Rohingya refugees who fled a violent crackdown in Myanmar, a new crisis looms: The babies conceived in rape are due [...]

For many of the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who have been forced to flee Myanmar in the past year, this month will mark the first time in their [...]

Byline: Jason Patinkin BALUKHALI, Bangladesh - The refugee shoved sandbags into the edge of a cliff in a sprawling Bangladeshi camp, a likely futile effort to hold together the loose [...]

Relief and Refugee Repatriation Commissioner Mohammad Abul Kalam said on Monday that the meeting would take place Tuesday on the 'zero line' near a place called Gundum. 'It is about [...]

Dozens of refugees stood holding cloth banners opposing their transfer as United Nations Special Rapporteur Yanghee Lee visited camps along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border over the weekend, Reuters wrote. Some refugee [...]

Byline: CLYDE HUGHESAn 18-year-old Saudi woman who fled from her family and sought refuge after flying to Thailand is in the custody of United Nations officials Tuesday, as they investigate [...]

GENEVA, Switzerland -- The following information was released by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees:This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Andrej Mahecic – to whom [...]

GENEVA, Switzerland -- The following information was released by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees:UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, regrets India's decision to repatriate a group of Rohingya to Myanmar, [...]