Rohingya crisis fund is 'well short of needs' - UN refugee agency

FILE PHOTO: Newly built makeshift tents are seen at the Rohingya refugee camp where a massive fire destroyed thousands of shelters in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, March 24, 2021. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain/File Photo

(Reuters) - An appeal to help Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh is "well short of needs", the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Tuesday, as refugees called on donors not to forget the crisis ahead of the fifth anniversary of their exodus from Myanmar.

More than a million Rohingya are living in squalid camps in southern Bangladesh comprising the world's largest refugee settlement, with little prospect of returning to Myanmar, where they are mostly denied citizenship and other rights.