Reports

1. INTRODUCTION Bangladesh is a highly disaster-prone country and throughout its existence, it suffered the impact of both extensive (low-severity, high-frequency events) and intensive (high-severity, mid-frequency to low-frequency events) disasters. Bangladesh is amongst the countries most vulnerable…

Dengue Outbreak Amidst Covid-19 Ongoing Responses The dengue outbreak of 2019 was Bangladesh’s worst year, with 101,354 cases according to the official reports, 50% of which were centered in the capital city of Dhaka. So far, 292…

As the saying goes, “When the going gets tough, the tough get going.” That is exactly what American Red Cross teams around the world are doing. Our staff and volunteers’ commitment to helping others in tough…

Actions Taken from Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS): Key figures at a glance: 13,531 Number of staff and Red Crescent Youth/ Cyclone Preparedness Program/ Camp/ Community volunteers being mobilized throughout the country. 256,017 Hygiene and Protecting gears distributed i.e Soap, Hand sanitizer,…

BRAC has been working in Cox’s Bazar for the last 37 years with the host communities of the region and the Rohingya community from previous influxes. BRAC Humanitarian Crisis Management Programme (HCMP) was initiated in August…

Hundreds of thousands of people, displaced by violence in Myanmar, live in crowded refugee camps in Bangladesh. It is a precarious existence at the best of times; when so many people live so close together, disease…

1. GLOBAL OVERVIEW On 23 April, the Secretary-General issued a human rights policy brief titled “We are all in this together”. The paper sets out the critical role that human rights must play in the design of inclusive…

Refugee Camp Restrictions Threaten ‘Critical Services’ (Bangkok) – The Bangladesh government’s new Covid-19 restrictions on access to aid put Rohingya refugees at greater risk, Human Rights Watch said today. The lockdown measures cut humanitarian workers in refugee…

OVERVIEW COVID-19 cases in Asia and the Pacific continue to increase at a steady pace with countries augmenting responses as well as maintaining stringent mobility restrictions. As of 27 April, over 289,700 cases and more than 13,600…

Context Analysis In March 2020, the increasing trend of the COVID 19 outbreak and containment measures to reduce the spread have been major challenges for the Population Movement Operation (PMO). By mid-March the Government of Bangladesh had…