Tag: Displaced

10 SEP

He's Giving Displaced Rohingya a Voice — and a Wallet

Malaysia has become one of the most popular destinations for the Rohingya people driven from their homelands in Myanmar. They are often smuggled into Kuala Lumpur, where they arrive with hopes as high as the megacity’s glass-and-steel towers. Muhammad Noor knows all too well the bill of goods human traffickers have sold his brethren. They […]

16 JAN

Bangladesh and Myanmar have agreed to resettle 650,000 displaced Rohingya Muslims within 2 years

Thomson Reuters Bangladesh and Myanmar have agreed to complete the return of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who fled a crackdown from Myanmar’s army into Bangladesh last year. The UN has called Myanmar’s army crackdown a “textbook” example of ethnic cleansing, and over 650,000 Rohingya have fled. The UN is now warning that Rohingya […]

17 NOV

ISIS car bomb kills 20, injures 30 at site for displaced families in eastern Syria – state media

Published time: 17 Nov, 2017 16:31 Edited time: 17 Nov, 2017 16:45 Twenty people have been killed and 30 others injured by a car bomb planted by Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) at a site for displaced families in eastern Syria, according to state media. The blast occurred near the city of Deir ez-Zor, according […]