Reports

OVERVIEW In March 2023, the operational situation in Bangladesh became increasingly complex. The combined impacts of a 17% cut to refugee food rations, a massive fire in the KutupalongBalukhali megacamp destroying thousands of shelters, low levels of…

Human Rights Council Fifty-third session 19 June–14 July 2023 Agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development Summary The Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights in…

FORECASTEDSITUATION (BMD & IMD) • Low-pressure area over southeast Bay of Bengal and adjoining south Andaman Sea has intensified into a wellmarked low over the same area at midnight of May 9. • It is likely to intensify…

Current Forecasted Situation: The Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) stated the depression is likely to recurve gradually and move North-Northeast wards. Maritime ports of Chattogram, Cox’s Bazar, Mongla, and Payra have been advised to hoist distant cautionary signal…

Overview In the evening of 24 April 2023, a fire broke out in a Rohingya refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. The fire was specifically located in Camp 21, a UNHCR-managed refugee camp in Teknaf. As of 25…

Highlights During the reporting period, a devastating fire broke out in Rohingya refugee Camp 11, and 15,926 people including 8,122 children were affected, and 25 UNICEF-supported facilities were fully damaged. UNICEF has provided life[1]saving support to 8,070…

Background On 5 March 2023, a devastating fire broke out in Rohingya refugee Camp 11 located in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. The fire, which started in the afternoon around 2:50 pm, burned for three hours before local firefighters and authorities…

Executive summary Seizing the attention and sympathy of the international community in 2017, Rohingya refugees, forced by genocidal military operations to leave their homeland, are one of the world's largest stateless populations. About one million Rohingya refugees…

KEY ACTIVITIES Water Supply UNHCR and its partners supply safe water to refugees in 14 camps through piped water networks and tube wells. Trained refugee volunteers conduct regular operations and maintenance of the systems. To monitor the water…

Statistics and Informatics Division (SID) Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) United Nations Children’s Fund EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Survey on Children‟s Education in Bangladesh, 2021, was conducted to generate estimates for a host of indicators on the status of children‟s education…