By Jo Becker, Advocacy Director, Children's Rights Division Despite a Difficult Year, Children’s Rights Made Progress Grim stories of conflict, abuse, and deprivation seem to confront us every day...
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By Jo Becker, Advocacy Director, Children's Rights Division Despite a Difficult Year, Children’s Rights Made Progress Grim stories of conflict, abuse, and deprivation seem to confront us every day...
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DAVID BREWSTER Extra aid is welcome. The next task is to build Bangladesh’s capabilities. Foreign Minister Penny Wong pledged additional assistance to Rohingya refugees this week, an important step...
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By Sonja Fransen, Alexander Hunns, Tarek Jaber and Teresa Janz Abstract Forcibly displaced people are at the forefront of climate emergencies worldwide. This article presents a scoping review of the...
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by Stephen Howes24 October 2023 Recently on this blog, Arunn Jegan, former head of Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières, MSF) in Bangladesh, wrote about how the “nightmare scenario has...
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IFC in Dhaka Ahsan Z Khan Communications Officer Phone: +880 17 6878 6642 E-mail: akhan51@ifc.org IFC in Singapore Alec Macfarlane Communications Officer Phone: +1 (202) 203 8324 Email:...
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In this edition: Thousands Displaced by Heavy Rains and Floods in Cox’s Bazar Women Police Deployed in Camps Handling Gender- sensitive Cases The Second Chance Education Programme is Transforming the...
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With a documented total of almost 1.2 million refugees originating from Myanmar – overwhelmingly Rohingya – this constitutes the world’s fourth largest refugee group by country of origin in 2018...
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Since the outbreak of violence in Myanmar in 2017, the international community has cooperated to assist in the crisis. In that time, Australia has provided over $240 million in humanitarian...
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Key Updates • Economic difficulties prompt governments to resume labor mobility schemes: Bleak employment prospects and the loss of remittances in home countries, have caused many migrants to...
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Overview of the Regional Prepositioning Initiative UNFPA’s Regional Prepositioning Initiative has been a game-changer in supporting humanitarian preparedness across the Asia-Pacific region. Between...
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DHAKA – Today, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the Australian High Commission jointly handed over personal protective equipment (PPE) to the Directorate General of Health Services...
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The Australian Government and UNFPA are supporting the Government of Bangladesh in strengthening the provision of life-saving services for women and girls. Through the partnership, UNFPA will install...
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This Quarterly Mixed Migration Update (QMMU) covers Southern and Southeast Asia. The core countries of focus for this region are Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Myanmar, India, Nepal, Malaysia,...
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Regional update – Asia and the Pacific Executive Committee of the High Commissioner’s Programme Sixty-ninth session 1-5 October 2018 A. Situational context including new developments As of the end of...
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Joint media release Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Hon Julie Bishop MP Minister for International Development and the Pacific, Senator the Hon Concetta Fierravanti-Wells Today on World Refugee Day...
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By Sharman Stone After her son’s murder, Miriam* finally fled her village in Myanmar’s conflict-ravaged Rakhine State. Even as Miriam escaped, the few precious belongings she could grab were snatched...
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The Australian Government partnered with eight leading humanitarian agencies in a joint appeal to help Rohingya who need assistance following violence in Myanmar. From 11 November – 9 December, the...
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Violence in Rakhine State in Myanmar has led to over 600,000 people fleeing over the border to Bangladesh since 25 August 2017. Most of these people arrived with few or no possessions and are reliant...
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The Australian Government is providing further support to combat the outbreak of highly contagious and deadly diphtheria amongst Rohingya in Bangladesh who have fled violence in Myanmar. There have...
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The Australian Government is deploying a team of medical experts to Bangladesh to survey health needs following an outbreak of highly contagious diphtheria in camps accommodating Rohingya who have...