MIL-OSI United Nations: Nearly three million more displaced year-on-year, warns refugee agency chief, but solutions are within reach
Source: United Nations 2 The number of people forced to flee their homes last year rose by nearly three million to 68.5 million, the head of the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Tuesday, warning that the world’s displacement hotspots “are becoming hotter”. Citing ongoing, protracted violence around the globe and a lack of solutions to […]
Read More →MIL-OSI United Nations: Forced displacement at record 68.5 million
Source: United Nations Wars, violence and persecution uprooted record numbers of men, women and children worldwide last year, making a new global deal on refugees more critical than ever, according to a UNHCR report published today. The UN Refugee Agency’s annual Global Trends survey found 68.5 million people had been driven from their homes across […]
Read More →MIL-OSI United Nations: Forced displacement above 68m in 2017, new global deal on refugees critical
Source: United Nations Wars, other violence and persecution drove worldwide forced displacement to a new high in 2017 for the fifth year in a row, led by the crisis in Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan’s war, and the flight into Bangladesh from Myanmar of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees. Overwhelmingly it is […]
Read More →MIL-OSI New Zealand: Race against time for Rohingya refugees as monsoon rains, flooding and landslides continue
Source: Oxfam New Zealand While 5000 Kiwis take part in Oxfam’s Ration Challenge in support of refugees this World Refugee Week, Rohingya refugees are facing life-threatening rains and disease as monsoon rains continue to lash the camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. There have been over 130 landslides, 3,300 damaged shelters and 28,000 Rohingya refugees affected […]
Read More →MIL-OSI United Nations: UN mobilizes in Rohingya camps to support babies born of rape, as young mothers face stigma
Source: United Nations 2 Members of the mainly-Muslim minority community began fleeing Myanmar’s Rakhine state last August following a military crackdown targeting extremists, during which homes were destroyed, men and boys killed, and countless women and girls raped. In early May, UN News published a special report highlighting the concerns being voiced by several leading […]
Read More →MIL-OSI United Nations: UN rights chief slams ‘unconscionable’ US border policy of separating migrant children from parents
Source: United Nations 2 As part of his final global update, the United Nations human rights chief on Monday voiced his deep concern over recently-adopted United States border protection policies that have seen hundreds of migrant children forcibly separated from their parents. “In the past six weeks, nearly two thousand children have been forcibly separated […]
Read More →MIL-OSI United Nations: FROM THE FIELD: Rohingya babies conceived out of ‘incomprehensible brutality’
Source: United Nations MIL OSI A photojournalist has been talking of the “incomprehensible brutality” described to him by Rohingya refugees who are carrying babies after being raped. Brian Sokol travelled with the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, to Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh to interview and photograph Rohingya refugee women who had fled Myanmar over the last […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Asia-Pacific: Mizoram Chakma Autonomous Council Chief calls on DoNER Minister Dr Jitendra Singh
Source: Government of India The Chief Executive of Mizoram Chakma Autonomous District Council (CADC), Shri Shanti Jiban Chakma called on the Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh here today and discussed […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Asia-Pacific: Thailand Has Undertaken Efforts to Carry Out ACMECS Reforms
Source: Government Of Thailand Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha stated that ACMECS, comprising Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand, and Viet Nam, is facing many challenges amidst globalization and rapid changes in this digital age. Thailand has undertaken concerted efforts over the years to carry forward the implementation of ACMECS reforms. In his opening remarks at […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Europe: ASIA/MYANMAR – Conflict in the Kachin state: new appeal for truce
Source: Agenzia Fides – MIL OSI Headline: ASIA/MYANMAR – Conflict in the Kachin state: new appeal for truce Yangon – In different parts of the Kachin State of Myanmar, a Burmese state with a Christian majority population, the conflict between the Burmese Army and the Kachin Independence Army has intensified: says a note by the […]
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