![]() Rezaul Karim, head of humanitarian operations of BRAC - the largest development organization based in Bangladesh and NGO Platform member - told Arab News that the impacts of the new food cut were expected to be seen already in the next few days. “Cuts in essential humanitarian assistance have severe impacts on the refugees and the host community, which lead potentially to criminal activities, such as theft and robbery, increased domestic violence, gender-based violence, and neglect toward persons with disabilities and older individuals in the community,” the group said. The platform warned of looming tensions with the host community and multi-dimensional social conflict. “Even before the first round of food ration cut in March 2023, with WFP’s food assistance, four in 10 families were not consuming enough food.” ![]() “This reduction in ration will push the current food assistance provided to the Rohingyas…far below the recognized global humanitarian standard of 2,100 kcal, entailing a significant drop in refugees’ food intake,” the group, which includes BRAC, Plan International, Save the Children, and the Norwegian Refugee Council, said in a call for action. They live in cramped camps of Cox’s Bazar district - the world’s largest refugee settlement - where they cannot be legally employed to earn their livelihood as Bangladesh is not a signatory to the 1951 UN Refugee Convention.Īs the new food reduction came into force, NGO Platform Cox’s Bazar sounded an alarm that it will have severe impacts on the refugees and the host community. Most of the refugees affected by the cuts are those who escaped deadly violence and persecution in neighboring Myanmar during a military crackdown in 2017. UN special rapporteurs warned in February that the refugee population in Bangladesh was food insecure, with more than a third of children stunted and underweight. The WFP first reduced the rations in March, from $12 to $10, citing funding shortages.Įven before the first reduction, the rations provided to the Rohingya were already insufficient and posed health problems for the refugee population. Since the beginning of June, the UN World Food Program’s food aid for the Rohingya sheltering in Bangladesh has been cut to $8 per month. I do worry.DHAKA: Aid groups raised an alert on Thursday that rapidly decreasing humanitarian assistance threatens the lives of 1 million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh as the UN has further reduced their food rations. If they don’t pivot soon to due process and faith in the system, I think we could have very dark days ahead. “Their current weaponization narrative is dangerous and destabilizing, but seems to reflect the party’s early consensus. “I think the verdict on democracy ultimately comes down to Republican leaders and Republican voters," Jolly said. The article further quotes David Jolly, a former Republican congressman from Florida who left the party during the Trump presidency: Trump’s all-caps assertion that it was merely part of the 'GREATEST WITCH HUNT OF ALL TIME.' It is now an article of faith, a default tactic or both," he wrote. "Few if any of them bothered to wait to read the indictment before backing Mr. "It represents either a validation of the rule-of-law principle that even the most powerful face accountability for their actions or the moment when a vast swath of the public becomes convinced that the system has been irredeemably corrupted by partisanship."īaker goes on to suggest that Trump and some other Republicans have caused the issue to worsen by turning their sights on the DOJ and the FBI. "History’s first federal indictment against a former president poses one of the gravest challenges to democracy the country has ever faced," according to Baker's analysis. Baker has covered the White House under the past five presidents, including all four years that Trump was in office.īaker says that, if Trump winds up in front of a jury for these allegations, "it is no exaggeration to suggest that American justice will be on trial as well." The stakes are high for Trump in a case where he could face years in prison, but there is even more on the line in this case, writes Peter Baker of the New York Times. Donald Trump and his personal valet aren't the only ones on trial in the criminal case brought against him over alleged mishandling of classified documents, according to a news analysis.
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