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The office is located in Cox's Bazar District. [4] Mahbub Alam Talukder was appointed commissioner on 2 September 2019 replacing Abul Kalam. [5] In January 2021, the Foreign Ministry of Bangladesh wrote to the Office of the Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner to establish a repatriation wing in Cox's Bazar to coordinate with Ministry ...
Repatriation is the return of a thing or person to its or their country of origin, respectively. The term may refer to non-human entities, such as converting a foreign currency into the currency of one's own country, as well as the return of military personnel to their place of origin following a war .
[53] [54] Originally, the government of Myanmar agreed to repatriate only 374 Rohingya refugees out of a list of over 8,000 submitted by their Bangladeshi counterparts on 14 March 2018, citing incomplete paperwork as the reason for the slow process, [55] [56] but on 18 May 2018, they announced they would repatriate a total of 1,100 "verified ...
Under the terms of the agreement, UNHCR supervised the repatriation of Bangladeshi and Pakistani citizens. According to the UN, 121,695 Bengalis were moved from Pakistan to Bangladesh. They included high-level Bengali civil servants and military officers. 108,744 non-Bengali civilians and civil servants were moved from Bangladesh to Pakistan. [4]
Voluntary return or voluntary repatriation is the return of an migrant such as undocumented immigrants, rejected asylum seekers, refugees, unaccompanied minors, as well as second-generation immigrants [1] who with their own free-will make an autonomous decision to return to their country of origin, or homeland when they are unable or unwilling ...
Non-refoulement (/ r ə ˈ f uː l m ɒ̃ /) is a fundamental principle of international law anchored in the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees that forbids a country from deporting ("refoulement") any person to any country in which their "life or freedom would be threatened" on account of "race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion".
One reason cited for communal violence between Biharis and Bengalis was Bengali opposition to Urdu as a national language, which resulted in the Bengali Language Movement and an economic downturn. The relatively secular attitude of East Pakistan increased tensions between the two communities and the two provinces of the country. [ 23 ]
The law on the repatriation of self-declared Republic of Abkhazia [28] gives the right of return to the ethnic Abkhaz and Abazins who are the descendants of the refugees who left Abkhazia due to the 19th-century conflicts. [29] The State Repatriation Committee provides support to the repatriates. [30]