UNHCR’s Assistant High Commissioners conclude four-day visit to Bangladesh
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Wrapping up today their four-day visit to Bangladesh, UNHCR Assistant High Commissioners for Protection and for Operations - Gillian Triggs and Raouf Mazou - called for international support and solidarity with Rohingya refugees and Bangladesh. The protection, well-being, and concerns of refugees, as well as renewed efforts towards solutions should be at the forefront of the response.
A joint visit to Bangladesh of the UNHCR Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, Gillian Triggs and UNHCR Assistant High Commissioner for Operations, Raouf Mazou, took place from 30 May to 2 June. It included visits to the refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar where the vast majority of Rohingya refugees reside, and the island of Bhasan Char, as well as meetings with senior Government officials.
There are laws, rules and specific instructions on how a government authority should remain prepared all the time to face a disaster. But that preparedness is often out of practice and they seem to await a forecast in this regard. Such slackness may somehow be salvageable when it comes to flood or cyclones, but not in the case of an earthquake, as the science is yet to advance
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Fighting Flood, Erosion: Monsoon nears, projects nowhere
Uncertainty looms over completion of BWDB works to protect embankments and dredge rivers ahead of monsoon
At least two dozen river dredging and embankment protection projects aimed at combating floods and erosion across the country are set to miss the deadline of this June due to fund crunch, red tape, and mistakes in assessments.
Completion of these projects is now uncertain particularly because the government opted for austerity measures against the backdrop of the Covid-19 economic downturn, a top official of Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) confirmed.
The projects are crucial to reducing the damage of croplands and displacement of hundreds of thousands of people, a common phenomenon during the monsoon when rivers of the country swell, said experts.