: Rohingya refugees share concerns with UN rights commissioner during visit to Cox’s Bazar #IndiaNEWS #International During her first official visit to Bangladesh, the UN High Commissioner for Human

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Rohingya refugees share concerns with UN rights commissioner during visit to Cox’s Bazar #IndiaNEWS #International
During her first official visit to Bangladesh, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, met with a host of officials, civil society representatives and Rohingya refugees on Tuesday.





In Cox’s Bazar, she visited camps housing Rohingya refugees who, after terrible repression and human rights violations, fled Myanmar five years ago “to get some safety,� she said.
“An estimated 1. 1 million Rohingyas are in Bangladesh right now, meaning Coxs Bazar, some of them in Bhashan char,� Ms. Bachelet said after visiting several sites inside a camp.


They described their grievances, their pains, how they left and lost everything they have – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights 


Women share pains
The top UN human rights official met with religious leaders as well as women and youth groups who shared with her their concerns and hopes.
In a women’s safe place inside the Cox’s Bazar camp, she spoke with them about their experiences.
“They described their grievances, their pains, how they left and lost everything they have…their livelihoods� and loved ones, said Ms. Bachelet.
They talked about the shelter provided to them in Bangladesh’s Coxs Bazar camp as well as how the UN with partners and NGOs have been supporting them with services.
Youth wishing to return
Young volunteers, aged 15 to 18, spoke of their wishes for education and to return to Myanmar, with identities as citizens.






© UNHCR/Amos Halder
A busy street in the Kutupalong Rohingya refugee camp in Coxs Bazar, Bangladesh.


“When our rights are respected, we can have our livelihoods again, and we can have a land, and we can feel that we are part of the country,� she recounted their conversations.
Dignified repatriation
The High Commissioner reiterated the importance of continuing to ensure that safe and sustainable conditions exist for any returns and that they be conducted in a voluntary and dignified way.
“The UN is doing the best we can to support them. Well continue doing that,� she said.
“But we also need to deal with the profound roots of the problem. We need to deal with that and ensure that they can go back to Myanmar – when there are conditions for safety and voluntary return�.



#Bangladesh visit: Important exchanges with a diverse range of civil society actors in Dhaka today. Civil society needs the space, and enabling conditions, to play their crucial role in identifying and helping resolve #HumanRights challenges – UN Human Rights Chief @mbachelet . pic. twitter. com/PmHD9AouQb
— UN Human Rights (@UNHumanRights) August 15, 2022


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