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UNRWA Headquarters are located in Amman and in Gaza.

4.2.3. The Rohingya Issue

The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), places the Rohingya’s among the “the most vulnerable groups of the forcibly displaced”.

Rohingya are an ethnic group, largely comprising Muslims, who predominantly live in the Western Myanmar province of Rakhine. They speak a dialect of Bengali, as opposed to the commonly spoken Burmese language.