The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) yesterday lauded government steps in recent years and expressed satisfaction over the state of refugees in Bangladesh, saying it was among countries having the “best practices”.
However, becoming a refugee hosting country in 1992 by accepting Rohingyas, Bangladesh still has no mechanism to process asylum applications, said UNHCR Representative in Bangladesh Stina Ljungdell, offering to provide assistance in this regard.
At a briefing in a hotel in the capital on UNHCR's activities here in the last three years, she also pointed out that though party to major human rights instruments, Bangladesh has neither ratified The 1951 Refugee Convention nor the subsequent 1967 Protocol. (Courtesy of thedailystar.net)
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