"The World Food Programme and other UN agencies are preparing to facilitate Bangladesh’s plan to relocate tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees to the small silt island of Bhasan Char. Bangladesh is now home to more than one million Rohingya who have fled Myanmar. The Bangladeshi government claims that relocating 23,000 refugees from Cox’s Bazar refugee camp as soon as April will relieve overcrowding issues. Humanitarian agencies and human rights groups have questioned and opposed the plan. UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Myanmar Yanghee Lee visited Bhasan Char in January and has emphasized that Bangladesh would need the full, prior, and informed consent of the refugees. But the Bangladeshi government has yet to hold any official public consultations with Rohingya refugees. Based on Yanghee Lee’s comments, it seemed that the UN wouldn’t back the plan. However, UN humanitarian agencies are now facilitating the move. They’ll be complicit in a plan that exposes the refugees to additional risks, rather than addressing problems with the current camps..."