Noor has also been instrumental in digitizing the Rohingya script, and in promoting its acceptance by Unicode, the international standard for computer characters and symbols.

The Rohingya were stripped of their citizenship in 1982, but the latest bout of repression began in 2012, when rising tensions between the ethnically Muslim group and Buddhist communities were ...

Myanmar's Rohingya face a wave of hostility and rejection in Indonesia, where regional communities say they are fed up of a spike in the numbers of boats carrying the persecuted ethnic minority to ...

For the 600,000 Rohingya who still remain in Myanmar, Rakhine State is essentially an open-air prison. Many are confined to the villages, and must pay a bribe or risk their lives just to go to the ...

Grandi said financial contributions for Rohingya relief have declined, and the U.N.’s mission plan for this year is “barely 40% funded,” a sharp drop from about 60% to 70% in previous years.

Last year more than 4,500 Rohingya fled Myanmar, and hundreds were killed during the journey, according to the United Nations. That number has been a fivefold increase from 2022, according to the U.N.

A Rohingya Muslim man tells the story of how he escaped the squalid refugee camp in southern Bangladesh where he was born and came to the U.S. as a refugee. The vote is expected to be fraught. One ...

Since 2017, the Rohingya people from Myanmar have been fleeing anti-Muslim persecution in their predominantly Buddhist country. Most have fled to neighboring Bangladesh, where many now live in ...

Rohingya refugees attend a solidarity event with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Muhammad Yunus, chief adviser of the Bangladesh Interim Government, at the Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's ...

Ever more Rohingya refugees are taking to the sea to escape their sprawling encampment in southeastern Bangladesh. Originally from Myanmar’s western Rakhine state, they had fled their homes in ...

An appeal to help Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh is "well short of needs", the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Tuesday, as refugees called on donors not to forget the crisis ahead ...