Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 14th March. UN humanitarian agencies on Wednesday launched an appeal of $852.4 million to support to address the ongoing Rohingya humanitarian crisis and the communities hosting them which affected 1.3 million people in Bangladesh.
The 2024 Joint Response Plan supported by the UNHCR, and migration agency, IOM, is led by the Government of Bangladesh.
It seeks to alleviate the plight of one million Rohingya refugees living in densely-populated camps in Cox’s Bazar and on the island of Bhasan Char after they fled ethnic violence in neighbouring Myanmar in August 2017.
Filippo Grandi, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, said needs “are as grave and as urgent as they ever were”, expressed hope that the crisis response will also help support around 346,000 people in host communities.
IOM Director General Amy Pope said “This is an ‘all hands on deck’ kind of humanitarian crisis,” underscored the scale of response needed and stressed the pivotal role of the WFP.
“Without food everything else falls apart,” she warned.
UN officials expressed hope that this year’s appeal would yield stronger support due to the underfunding has exacerbated the challenges faced by Rohingya refugees, women and children. UN.
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