Highlights:

Access to Territory:

• On June 26, nearly 100 Rohingya people trapped at sea were rescued by Indonesian fishermen in Aceh.
  Camp Conditions:
• The Bangladesh Red Crescent Society and IOM have opened new isolation facilities to treat COVID-19 patients in the Rohingya refugee settlements and nearby host communities.
• Surveys conducted among the Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar revealed that many lack information about COVID-19, and that 40% of children are scared of dying of the disease.
  Conditions in Myanmar:
• Thousands of villagers have fled their homes in Myanmar’s Rakhine state after a local administrator warned dozens of village leaders that the army planned “clearance operations” against insurgents.
  High-level statements:
• The UN Human Rights Council has adopted a resolution urging the repatriation of the Rohingya people to Myanmar.
• The UK and Slovenia have assured Bangladesh this week that they are committed supporting Bangladesh and the Rohingya regarding COVID-19, and sustainable Rohingya repatriation to Myanmar.
• At an ASEAN meeting on June 26, the Malaysian Prime Minister said that Malaysia cannot take in any more Rohingya.

RSN follows the plight of the Rohingya community, an ethnic minority driven from their home country of Myanmar to a number of countries, most principally Bangladesh. RSN compiles a weekly developments tracker (or “digest report”), focusing primarily on news coming out of Bangladesh, but including regional and international perspectives. Highlights of each week are featured here and linked in more detail in the full digest report. If you would like to receive these digest reports directly to your inbox, please email [email protected].