JUSTICE FOR ALL PRESS RELEASE: URGENT CALL TO ACTION AS ROHINGYA CRISIS DEEPENS: SHRINKING AID, DEADLY SEA CROSSINGS, AND SYSTEMIC FAILURE DEMAND IMMEDIATE GLOBAL RESPONSE

For Immediate Release

Food Rations Cut to $7 as Record Deaths at Sea Mount; Organization Demands Economic Inclusion, Resettlement Surge, and Accountability for Burma/Myanmar

NEW YORK, N.Y. – As food assistance for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh falls to as low as $7 per person per month and a record 900 refugees perished at sea in 2025, Justice For All today issued an urgent call to action demanding an immediate shift from containment to human dignity. The organization also expressed deep concern over Bangladesh’s newly formed national committee, which focuses solely on security and repatriation without addressing livelihoods or humanitarian protection.

The World Food Program’s new needs-based system has reduced monthly rations, forcing families to sell aid to pay for healthcare. The UNHCR reports over 2,800 Rohingya attempted dangerous sea crossings in early 2026 alone. One April boat capsize left 250 missing and feared dead.

“The reduction of food rations to $7 is not an austerity measure, it is a death sentence by slow motion,” said Imam Abdul Malik Mujahid, President and Founder of Justice For All. “The world has spent eight years managing this crisis instead of solving it. As funding dries up, desperation pushes our Rohingya brothers and sisters onto rickety boats where they drown by the hundreds. The genocide did not end in 2017. It continues today through starvation in camps and drownings at sea.”

On April 22, Bangladesh announced a new 16-member national committee led by the Home Minister to coordinate camp security and repatriation. “We recognize the immense burden Bangladesh has borne for nearly a decade,” said Imam Saffet Catovic, Director of UN Operations at Justice For All. “But a committee focused solely on security, without any mandate to expand livelihoods, protect refugees from traffickers, or improve humanitarian access, will not stop the deaths. The Joint Response Plan remains less than 30 percent funded. We are cutting food to some of the most vulnerable people on earth while doubling down on containment.”

Justice For All calls for four urgent actions: First, immediately reverse food ration cuts and fully fund the Joint Response Plan. Second, authorize controlled livelihood programs in the camps to reduce aid dependency. Third, launch an emergency resettlement surge of at least 100,000 vulnerable refugees and end all regional pushbacks of boat arrivals. Fourth, pursue full accountability at the ICC and impose targeted sanctions on Myanmar’s military junta.

“The time for statements of concern is over,” concluded President Mujahid. “The time for action is NOW.”

Contact:

Rafiuddin Ahmed

Rafi@JusticeForAll.org

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About Justice For All

Justice For All is a faith-based human rights organization with over thirty years of experience in preventing and addressing the persecution of religious minorities and genocide. Accredited at the United Nations, Justice For All’s Burma Task Force has led advocacy, legal submissions before the International Criminal Court, congressional testimony, and grassroots mobilization for Rohingya rights since 2012. The organization is committed to pursuing justice through legal accountability, humanitarian advocacy, and the amplification of survivor voices.