Stateless Rohingya could soon be the ‘new Palestinians’, top UN official warns

Special rapporteur Olivier De Shutter calls for action on neglected crisis after finding ‘absolutely terrible’ conditions on visit to Cox’s Bazar camps in BangladeshRohingya refugees in Bangladesh are at risk of becoming “the new Palestinians”, accordi…

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UN denied access to Rohingya refugee camps after Cyclone Mocha

UNHCR says Myanmar government has refused to allow it to distribute health supplies in Sittwe, where an estimated 90% of Rohingya homes have been destroyedUN staff say they have been denied access to help thousands of Rohingya living in displacement ca…

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Climate breakdown made southern Asia heatwave at least 2C hotter, study finds

Temperatures up to 45C recorded in April in parts of India, Bangladesh, Thailand and LaosA searing heatwave in parts of southern Asia in April was made at least 30 times more likely by climate breakdown, according to a study by international scientists…

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‘We have a right to live in dignity’: Biharis in Bangladesh fight for equality – and jobs

The Urdu-speaking ethnic group was stateless for many years after the partition of India – and even now remain marginalised, living in cramped settlement camps and struggling to find formal workOn his first day at high school, Khalid Hussain was accuse…

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‘Peace of mind at last’: the Bangladeshi villagers digging their way out of the floods

‘Plinth’ settlements built on raised ground above the country’s flooding rivers are providing permanent homes and emergency refugesHamida Khatun is sick of moving. The 60-year has been displaced about 20 times during her life, always as a result of cli…

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Bangladesh media in fear after PM’s ‘people’s enemy’ attack

Even stories on cost of living leave journalists facing assault, threats and arrest under Digital Security ActFour weeks ago, a reporter in Bangladesh was hauled from his office, badly beaten – and then thrown from the roof of his building, leaving him…

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‘A nightmare I couldn’t wake up from’: half of Rana Plaza survivors unable to work 10 years after disaster

A decade after Bangladesh’s worst garment-industry disaster, injury and ill health plagues those that escapedThe cracks on the walls started to appear two days earlier. But despite the warning signs, Moushumi Begum still came to work on 24 April 2013. …

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‘It’s spreading faster than we’ve ever seen’: the mission to halt leprosy in Bangladesh’s tea gardens

Despite the WHO declaring it eliminated in 1998, thousands of tea pickers have caught the diseaseAloka Gonju didn’t take much notice of the discoloured patch of skin on her left hand until her fingers began to stiffen and hurt. It became a struggle to …

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