UN rapporteur Kelley Currie to visit Rohingya camps in Bangladesh as Myanmar junta says it is not ready to host her

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The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Kelley E. Currie, will visit Bangladesh from 11 to 18 November to assess how Myanmar’s deteriorating human rights situation, including the armed conflict and developments in western Myanmar’s Rakhine State, is affecting Bangladesh and the Rohingya refugees it hosts, while the junta has told her it is not ready to receive her inside Myanmar.

According to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), which announced the trip on 10 November, Currie will meet government officials, civil society representatives, victims and survivors, among others. She will visit Dhaka, Cox’s Bazar and refugee camp sites in Cox’s Bazar District, and will also look at opportunities for future cooperation. Bangladesh hosts more than one million Rohingya refugees, most of whom fled a military crackdown in Rakhine State in 2017.

Currie has formally requested access for a country visit to Myanmar, and the military regime informed her that it was not ready to accommodate one, OHCHR said.

She will hold a press conference at UN House in Dhaka at 14:00 local time on 18 November, open only to accredited journalists. Currie, who succeeded Tom Andrews in the role this year, will present her next report to the UN Human Rights Council in March 2027.