Following World Refugee Day on 20 June, and with the monsoon
season just beginning, the UK is calling on the international
community to step up support for the refugees and their host
communities. The UK is leading the way with £129 million of aid
already given.
With the gender aspects of the humanitarian crisis often
overlooked, will visit women’s safe
spaces in the refugee camp at Cox’s Bazar and meet refugees,
humanitarian workers, and civil society leaders to understand the
needs of women and girls caught up in the crisis.
Minister Field and will also meet senior
ministers to discuss the crisis as well as girls’ and womens’
education in Bangladesh more widely.
Ahead of the visit, Minister of State for Asia and the Pacific,
the Rt Hon MP said:
Bangladesh is dealing with a major humanitarian crisis not of
its making and it is vital the international community works
with Bangladesh to step up support for the refugees and their
host communities, especially during this monsoon season.
We are incredibly grateful to Bangladesh and to Prime Minister
Hasina for welcoming over one million Rohingya refugees and I
am looking forward to seeing how UK aid is helping improve
their lives.
UK Special Envoy for Gender Equality, , said:
The UK is determined to be a world leader in advocating for
gender equality internationally and it is all too often women
and girls who are the greatest victims in a humanitarian crisis
like this – whether as a result of sexual violence, or loss of
access to education, and they must not be ignored.
