WFP Bangladesh Country Brief, April 2019
In Numbers10,503.921 mt of food assistance distributedUS$ 3.82 m cash-based transfers madeUS$ 92.06 m six months (May 2019-October 2019) net funding requirements for CSP of which US$ 83.16 m is for Cox’s Bazar L2 Emergency Response1.20 m people assiste…
Stateless Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh Receive Identity Documents for First Time
GENEVA Bangladeshi authorities and the U.N. refugee agency have registered more than a quarter million Rohingya refugees and presented them with identity documents that grant them a number of rights and safeguards.Unlike citizens of a country, statel…
Navigators Announces Revised Dates for Second Quarter 2019 Dividend
STAMFORD, Conn., May 15, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Navigators Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:NAVG) announced today that it has revised the record and payment dates for the previously announced second quarter dividend to more closely align these dates with past practice. A cash dividend of $0.07 per share of common stock will therefore be payable on June 24, 2019 to […]
Foreign Firms Face Scrutiny as UN Looks to Isolate Myanmar Generals
YANGON, MYANMAR Multinational companies doing business with Myanmar’s military have so far shrugged off calls from activists to cut ties despite ongoing efforts to have the country’s top generals prosecuted for genocide.Even big brand names such as W…
Safe pregnancies for displaced mothers as mobile clinics reach deep into Kachin camps
MYITKYINA, Myanmar – When Ja Htoi Lu was pregnant with her second child, she felt fine, and didn’t see much point in taking time from her chores to go for antenatal visits.It was late 2018. Seven years before, Ja Htoi had fled her home when armed confl…
Cyclone Raises Fears About Vulnerability of Rohingya Refugee Camps
YANGON, MYANMAR Damage from Cyclone Fani in eastern India and southwestern Bangladesh last week is raising concern about what could happen if a similar storm struck southeastern Bangladesh, which has a large refugee population.A disaster risk reducti…
Myanmar: UN human rights experts say “terribly concerned” about press freedoms and democracy
GENEVA UN human rights experts welcomed the news that convicted Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo are back at home with their families in Myanmar, but expressed serious concerns about the judicial process in the country and the fact that thei…