A woman and her daughters with family in Australia are among about 200 refugees stranded aboard a rickety wooden boat without food or water in Southeast Asia.
No one knows if scores of Rohingya refugees stranded in the Andaman Sea since 29 November are alive.
The UNHCR is deeply dismayed that repeated calls to rescue refugees in the Andaman Sea are not being heeded.They risked their lives on a rickety wooden boat on 29 November to escape the squalid camps of Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh after fleeing violence in Myanmar five years ago. Mr Sha, an Australian citizen who arrived in the country as a political refugee in 2000, said he didn't know if his sister and her children were alive.Distraught that his sister took the perilous journey with her daughters, Mr Sha said he feared for their lives.Ms Bagum, in her mid-50s, briefly spoke to her Malaysian-based husband by satellite phone about a week ago but she was unaware of her location."We are dying here, we have no food and no water.
In 2017, a genocidal crisis forced most to Cox's Bazar, where they live in dire conditions and are vulnerable to exploitation.
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