UNHCR is providing assistance to local farmers in one of Bangladesh’s poorest districts, which is home to 900,000 Rohingya refugees, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Cox’s Bazar was already an underdeveloped district in Bangladesh prior to the Rohingya refugee influx in 2017. The arrival of over 740,000 refugees has had a major effect on the lives of local residents. When the Rohingya refugees arrived with nothing, the local community was the first to help them, but the refugees’ continued presence has harmed the livelihoods of many Bangladeshis.The COVID-19 pandemic has caused severe economic distress and food security concerns for the already poor local population, placing many people at risk of starvation.
New programmes, such as vegetable collection centres, have recently been launched to assist local residents in selling their produce at a reasonable price. Vegetable collection centres are also near producers, lowering transportation costs. This has improved their income potential, attracting more people to work in agriculture.
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Mary Jane Veloso, a Filipina who has spent 14 years on death row in Indonesia, will be coming home but will stay behind bars for the immediate future after being transferred to the custody of Philippine authorities, officials said.
Many of the estimated 176,000 migrants living in Lebanon are African women who are working menial jobs.Many of them have been displaced since the start of the conflict and are facing uncertain futures.
Nicolas de Rivière,Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations, briefs reporters after the UN Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question.
This week marks 1,000 days of fighting in Ukraine.For millions of Ukrainians, including 32-year-old Oleh Reshetnyak and his loved ones in Kyiv, the mounting death toll, air raid sirens, and explosions have been a grim reality.
James Kariuki,Deputy Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations and President of the Security Council for the Month of November, chairs the Security Council meeting on the situation in Libya.
Over half a million people, many of them were refugees who initially fled the Syrian conflict, have fled Lebanon into Syria in the last two months.According to those returning to Idlib, Syria’s last opposition stronghold, they are fleeing to a location that is marginally safer than Lebanon,without homes, jobs or humanitarian aid waiting for them.
The World Bank is helping Malawi’s most vulnerable communities in coping with the effects of the drought and storms that the country has been facing since 2022.Increased community involvement, according to participants, would result in more immediate program outcomes.
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