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UN assistant secretary general visits Cox’s Bazar Rohingya camps

report in Dhaka Tribune, Sept 27, 2023Unaisi Lutu Vuniwaqa, United Nations assistant secretary general for Safety and Security, has visited the Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar. She visited the Kutupalong-2 and Balukhali-8 refugee camps, as well as the extended part of the 20-year-old refugee camp in Ukhiya upazila on Tuesday. Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner Mizanur Rahman said during the visit, Vuniwaqa spoke to officials of the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the UN World…

HRCP appalled by gender-based violence, plight of flood victims in northern Sindh

By Arshad Yousafzai in The News, Feb 19, 2023Following the conclusion of a fact-finding mission in northern Sindh, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has expressed concern over the state of law and order in upper districts of the province mentioning high incidence of gender-based violence, slow pace of rehabilitation of flood-affected communities and safety issues for journalists. The HRCP mission said it was concerned over the political and feudal influence on state institutions…