bdnews24.com :
Hollywood star Angelina Jolie has visited a Rohingya camp in Cox’s Bazar before the launch of a new appeal for $920 million funds for the refugees in Bangladesh.
The special envoy of the UN’s refugee agency UNHCR started for the Chakmarkul camp at Hoikyang in Teknaf after a half-an-hour break at a hotel on her arrival in the resort town on Monday morning.
The Oscar-winning actress is in Bangladesh on a three-day mission to assess the humanitarian needs of the Rohingya refugees and some of the more critical challenges facing Bangladesh as a host country.
Her visit comes prior to the launch of a new appeal for the humanitarian situation in Bangladesh – the 2019 Joint Response Plan – which
seeks to raise some $920 million to continue meeting the basic needs of Rohingya refugees and the communities hosting them.
The special envoy focuses on major forced displacement crises, representing UNHCR and the high commissioner at the diplomatic level.
During the visit to the refugee camp, she spoke to the Rohingya women who fled a violent army operation launched in Myanmar on Aug 25, 2017, Cox’s Bazar Superintendent of Police Iqbal Hossain told bdnews24.com citing UNHCR officials.
The Rohingya women described the persecution and violence they had suffered in Rakhine State during the conversations with Jolie, the SP said. The actress was scheduled to visit the transit camp built for repatriation of the Rohingyas at Damdamia, according to Iqbal.
After spending the night at the hotel, she will visit several camps, including the D-5 camp at Kutupalong, the largest refugee settlement anywhere in the world today. The majority of refugees – more than 620,000 people – live in Kutupalong.
She will conclude her first visit to Bangladesh with official meetings with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen in Dhaka.
Hollywood star Angelina Jolie has visited a Rohingya camp in Cox’s Bazar before the launch of a new appeal for $920 million funds for the refugees in Bangladesh.
The special envoy of the UN’s refugee agency UNHCR started for the Chakmarkul camp at Hoikyang in Teknaf after a half-an-hour break at a hotel on her arrival in the resort town on Monday morning.
The Oscar-winning actress is in Bangladesh on a three-day mission to assess the humanitarian needs of the Rohingya refugees and some of the more critical challenges facing Bangladesh as a host country.
Her visit comes prior to the launch of a new appeal for the humanitarian situation in Bangladesh – the 2019 Joint Response Plan – which
seeks to raise some $920 million to continue meeting the basic needs of Rohingya refugees and the communities hosting them.
The special envoy focuses on major forced displacement crises, representing UNHCR and the high commissioner at the diplomatic level.
During the visit to the refugee camp, she spoke to the Rohingya women who fled a violent army operation launched in Myanmar on Aug 25, 2017, Cox’s Bazar Superintendent of Police Iqbal Hossain told bdnews24.com citing UNHCR officials.
The Rohingya women described the persecution and violence they had suffered in Rakhine State during the conversations with Jolie, the SP said. The actress was scheduled to visit the transit camp built for repatriation of the Rohingyas at Damdamia, according to Iqbal.
After spending the night at the hotel, she will visit several camps, including the D-5 camp at Kutupalong, the largest refugee settlement anywhere in the world today. The majority of refugees – more than 620,000 people – live in Kutupalong.
She will conclude her first visit to Bangladesh with official meetings with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen in Dhaka.
