BM Desk : According to Md. Touhid Hossain, Bangladesh’s foreign affairs advisor, the financial situation is making the Rohingya issue more complex every day.
He made this statement during the ‘Human Rights Violations against the Rohingya’ session of the OIC Foreign Ministers’ Conference, which took place on Sunday, June 22, in Istanbul, Turkey.

During his remarks, he urged OIC members to contribute to the ongoing International Court of Justice (ICJ) case against Myanmar.
In order to guarantee long-term humanitarian aid for the Rohingya community residing in Cox’s Bazar and Bhasan Char, he also asked them to step forward.

Touhid Hossain claimed that the absence of sufficient funding has also made it more difficult to provide humanitarian help to the Rohingya residing in Bhasan Char and Cox’s Bazar. There has been a startling decline in international assistance for the Rohingya who have sought safety in Bangladesh.
According to him, only 68% of the UN’s 2024 funding request was met last year. Emergency aid initiatives like food, healthcare, and education are therefore in dire straits.
According to the Foreign Affairs Advisor, UNICEF has been obliged to halt its education initiatives since June 3 due to a severe lack of resources. Food rations have also been lowered by the World Food Program (WFP). In the event that the required money is not obtained by September, the rations will reduced further.

Touhid Hossain asserted that the legal procedure is equally crucial in addressing the Rohingya issue and that OIC nations must actively participate in funding the current case against Myanmar before the International Court of Justice (ICJ). He urged the OIC’s member nations to help with this.
“The safe and dignified repatriation of the Rohingyas is the permanent solution to this crisis, but before that, continuity of humanitarian assistance must be ensured,” he said, citing Bangladesh’s longstanding humanitarian responsibility to shelter the Rohingya population.