The UN refugee agency head has asked government representatives and business leaders from the Asia-Pacific region to offer more support and protection to over 700,000 Rohingya refugees who have fled violence and discrimination in Myanmar's Rakhine state since last year.
Since late August 2017, widespread and systematic violence against Myanmar's mainly Muslim minority Rohingya has forced hundreds of thousands to flee their homes in Rakhine state for Bangladesh.
“I urge you to consider what support your Governments could pledge in solidarity with Bangladesh until solutions are found for refugees,” head of the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) Filippo Grandi said, addressing ministers of 26 countries in Bali, Indonesia, at the Seventh Ministerial Conference of the Bali Process.
