Giving Compass' Take:

• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reports that UN Secretary-General António Guterres has made an appeal for more money to help the nearly one million Rohingya refugee living in Bangladesh under harsh conditions.

• With overall funding for this crisis falling short of expectations, it is urgent that aid and humanitarian groups find ways to act quickly, as violence and hunger are takings its toll on an already-vulnerable population.

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The international community must do more to support nearly one million Rohingya refugees living in “heartbreaking” conditions in Bangladesh, the UN chief said on July 2.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres made the appeal during a visit to the world’s largest refugee site, a vast settlement in southeast Bangladesh near the Myanmar border. Accompanying him under driving monsoon rains was World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim.

“My appeal to the international community is to step up to the plate and to substantially increase the financial support to all those who are in Bangladesh to protect … assist and support the Rohingya refugees,” Guterres told reporters at a news conference.

He and Kim are at the end of a two-day visit to Bangladesh to garner more support for refugees and their hosts. They were joined on the trip by UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi and UNFPA Executive Director Natalia Kanem.

It is impossible to visit these camps without breaking our hearts with the suffering of the Rohingya people.

The Secretary-General said more funds are urgently needed as a key $950 million humanitarian aid plan remains just 26 per cent funded. The shortfall is worsening conditions for hundreds of thousands of refugees living in fragile conditions since fleeing a military crackdown in Myanmar last August.

Read the full article about more international support needed for Rohingya refugees by Tim Gaynor at UNHCR.