Thousands of Rohingya refugees rallied at camps in Bangladesh on Friday to demand their safe return to Myanmar on the sixth anniversary of the violence that drove them from their homes.Bangladesh is home to around a million members of the stateless m...

Human Rights Watch on Friday urged Bangladesh to suspend plans to repatriate Rohingya refugees to Myanmar, warning conditions there would not be safe for the persecuted and stateless minority.Bangladesh is home to around a million Rohingya, most of w...

By AFPNearly 100,000 supporters of Bangladesh's main opposition party descended on Dhaka Saturday to protest against the government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and demand new elections."Sheikh Hasina is a vote thief," they chanted at the Golapbag...

By AFPRohingya cleric Abdur Rashid still believes children are divine gifts, but life in a Bangladeshi refugee camp with six little mouths to feed has left him and his wife unwilling to accept another heavenly blessing.Earlier this year, his wife Nos...

By AFPElite Bangladeshi police have launched a crackdown against suspected criminals and insurgents after a rise in attacks on Rohingya community leaders in refugee camps, officers said Sunday.The Armed Police Battalion, tasked with security in 34 re...

By AFPAt least 16 people died after a cyclone slammed into Bangladesh, forcing the evacuation of about a million people from their homes, officials said Tuesday.Around 10 million people were without power in 15 coastal districts, while schools were s...

By AFPA mob of a dozen people hacked to death two Rohingya community leaders in Bangladesh, police said Sunday, as security worsens in camps housing almost a million refugees.Bangladesh has been housing Rohingya refugees in a vast sprawl of camps sin...

By AFPAt least a dozen people were missing off the Bangladesh coast on Tuesday after a boat carrying Rohingya refugees sank in rough weather, the South Asian country's coast guard said.The fishing trawler left at dawn and was bound for Malaysia befor...

A country of fertile, densely populated deltas, low-lying Bangladesh is among the most vulnerable nations in the world to climate change.But the urgency of the situation is not being matched by actions of countries responsible for emissions, Prime Mi...

By AFPBangladeshi activists said Monday they briefed the visiting UN human rights chief on gross violations including extrajudicial killings and disappearances under Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.Michelle Bachelet is the first UN rights chief to visit...

Nearly 150,000 workers at more than 200 Bangladeshi tea plantations went on strike Saturday to demand a 150 percent rise to their dollar-a-day wages, which researchers say are among the lowest in the world.Most tea workers in the overwhelmingly Musli...

Tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh staged demonstrations on Sunday demanding repatriation back to Myanmar, where they fled a brutal military crackdown five years ago.Almost a million Rohingya are confined to bamboo and tarpaulin sha...