The Cox’s Bazar Civil Society Organisations and NGO Forum (CCNF), a network of more than 50 local and national NGOs, has urged the UN to revise the conditions of allocating a $4 million USD emergency coronavirus fund to ensure participation of local NGOs in the humanitarian response for Rohingyas.

UK International Development Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan has said they are strongly committed to helping Bangladesh and the Rohingya people through this devastating crisis.

UN and other aid agencies are concerned that the monsoon will exacerbate the already dire situation in the Rohingya camps where almost 860,000 refugees live in crammed accommodations, many of which are located in hazardous terrain.

Amid worsening socioeconomic conditions caused by coronavirus, the Rohingya children living in the world’s largest refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar face heightened risk of violence including child trafficking, child labour and child marriage, child rights organization Educo said today.

It is concerning to learn that out of USD 308.7 million sought from the international community for the Rohingyas for 2020, only USD 87 million or 27 percent of that has been given as of May, according to the UN Refugee Agency.

The Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network (APRRN), Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA), and Progressive Voice (PV) call upon ASEAN leaders to address growing xenophobia toward undocumented migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers.

We are living in unprecedented times. The Covid-19 pandemic has spread like wildfire around the world, consuming lives, shattering livelihoods and changing the ways we live in profound and possibly lasting ways. We are in the fight of our lives and, at the same time, another human tragedy continues to smoulder and burn: the global displacement crisis.

The global funding for the Rohingyas may fall short as the non-government organisations’ (NGO) activities have drastically decreased amid coronavirus pandemic.

Bangladesh has said the principle of burden- and responsibility-sharing should be central to the actions of the international community in addressing humanitarian situations.

Bangladesh has outright rejected a reported Malaysian plan to ask Dhaka to take in 269 Rohingyas who managed to land on its soil, with the foreign minister saying Dhaka was neither obligated nor willing to do so.

Malaysian authorities detain 269 Rohingya refugees and find a body on board a suspected smuggling boat they say was intentionally damaged so it couldn’t be turned back to sea.

Three unions under Ukhia upazila and Teknaf municipality in Cox’s Bazar district -- areas inhabited by Rohingya refugees from Myanmar -- have been declared red zones to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

A Rohingya man has died from Covid-19 in Cox’s Bazar’s Ukhia upazila.

An Argentine court has moved one step closer to opening a historic investigation against Myanmar’s military and civilian leadership over genocide against the Rohingya people, the Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK) says.

Myanmar authorities claimed to have submitted a compliance report to the International Court of Justice (ICJ), Turkey-based Anadolu Agency reports.

Three more Rohingya refugees tested positive for Covid-19 in Ukhiya upazila of Cox’s Bazar today.

Eighteen more people, including a Rohingya refugee from Ukhia, have tested positive for Covid-19 in tests conducted at Cox’s Bazar Govt Medical College.

Twenty-four people, including a Rohingya refugee, tested positive for Covid-19 today in Cox’s Bazar. The latest positive case of a Rohingya refugee contracting the virus is increasingly worrying for the 900,000 Rohingya refugees living in 34 camps in Teknaf and Ukhia upazilas of Cox’s Bazar.

Three more Rohingya refugees have tested positive for Covid-19 at Ukhia refugee camp a day after the first novel coronavirus case was reported in the camp.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), today extended its tripartite deal with Myanmar for improving conditions in Rakhine state for Rohingyas to return and live with other communities.