Sustained humanitarian support is not optional – it is essential,’ for Rohingya, says UNICEF representative in Bangladesh - Anadolu Ajansı

In Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar refugee settlements, child malnutrition has surged and cuts to aid funding risk creating a humanitarian “catastrophe”, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned on Tuesday.

The number of Rohingya children needing emergency treatment for severe acute malnutrition in Bangladesh's refugee camps has surged by 27% in February 2025 compared to the same period last year, according to Unicef.

The United Nations warned Tuesday that the global aid funding crisis could be paid in children's lives in Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh, unless sustainable funds emerge fast.

A hundred refugees who landed in 2022 rallied in protest in front of the United Nations Office in Colombo. After surviving genocide, they wonder if they will “now die from hunger and abandonment

Severe acute malnutrition in the Rohingya refugee camps has surged by 27 percent in February this year compared to the same period last year, pushing more children into life-threatening hunger, Unicef said in a statement yesterday.

At the beginning of 2025, UNICEF estimated that 14,200 children in the Rohingya refugee camps would suffer from severe acute malnutrition in 2025.

Shanti Mohila, a group of Rohingya women who bravely fight for justice, should be celebrated this International Women’s Day.