At Cox’s Bazar, she visited detention camps for Rohingya refugees, who, after terrible persecution and human rights abuses, fled Myanmar five years ago “for safety” “, she said.
“An estimated 1.1 million Rohingyas are currently in Bangladeshmeans Cox’s Bazar, some of them are in Bhashan char,” Ms Bachelet said after visiting several locations inside the camp.
They describe their grievances, their pain, how they went away and lost everything they had – United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Women share pain
The United Nations’ top human rights official met with religious leaders as well as women and youth groups who shared with her their concerns and hopes.
In a safe for women inside Cox’s Bazar, she talked to them about their experiences.
“They describe their pain, their pain, how they left and lost everything they had… their livelihood” and loved ones, Ms. Bachelet said.
They talked about the shelter provided to them in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar camp and how the United Nations with its partners and NGOs supported them with services.
Youth wants to return
Young volunteers, aged 15 to 18, talk about their desire to study and return to Myanmar, as citizens.
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A busy street in the Kutupalong Rohingya refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.
“When our rights are respected, we can have our livelihoods again, have our land, and we can feel part of the country,” she recounts their conversation. .
Decent repatriation
The High Commissioner reiterates the importance of continuing to ensure that safe and sustainable conditions exist for any returns and that they are conducted in a voluntary and dignified manner.
“The UN is doing what it can to support them. We will continue to do that,” she said.
“But we also need to address the deep roots of the problem. We need to address that and make sure that they can return to Myanmar – when it is safe to do so and voluntarily return.”
Impact of war in Ukraine
Meanwhile, the current economic crisis and the war in Ukraine have driven up food costs.
“One of the problems they have seen here, as in many other parts of the world, is that food prices are going up,” the UN official explained, adding that “the same number of Money that used to be able to buy more can now buy less.”
This is creating problems for the people of Cox’s Bazar, which she points out, stressing that the international community has not abandoned the Rohingyas.
Ms Bachelet asked the world to stay “supportive and even looking to see if they can scale up support because of the consequences”.
Draw close
During his stay in Dhaka, the top powerful United Nations official met with Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen at the Government guesthouse, a number of ministers and representatives of civil society organizations, along with others. others.
Yesterday, she emphasized that civic space and facilitation are key for society to play an important role in identifying and helping to solve problems. #Human rights domestic challenges.
She will conclude her visit tomorrow after a meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Washed and a press conference.
