Bangladesh: Epidemiological Highlights Week 2 (6-12 Jan 2020)
Highlights:
Number of Measles cases are being sustained high since last September 2019
Measles Outbreak Response Immunization going on the camp from January 12 to February 12, 2020 and target age group is 6 month to < 10 year in the camp population
Proposed date of 2nd …
UNICEF statement on the death of four children due to an explosion in Rakhine State, Myanmar
UNICEF Myanmar expresses deep sorrow over the death offour children on Monday when an explosive device went off while they were collecting fire wood in the forest near Htike Htoo Pauk village of Buthedaung Township in Rakhine State. Five more …
Statement of the Twenty-Third IHR Emergency Committee Regarding the International Spread of Poliovirus
The twenty-third meeting of the Emergency Committee under the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR) regarding the international spread of poliovirus was convened by the Director General on 11 December 2019 at WHO headquarters with members, advisers and invited Member States …
Blast Kills 4 Children in Myanmar’s Rakhine State
YANGON, MYANMAR – Four children were killed and five injured alongside their teacher as an explosion hit while they collected firewood in an area of Myanmar’s Rakhine state beset by fighting between the military and Arakan Army (AA) rebels.
It …
Death Toll Increases to 24 in Cambodia Building Collapse
PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA – The death toll has risen to at least 24 and 23 more people are listed as injured in the collapse of a building in Cambodia that trapped workers under rubble, officials said Sunday.
The seven-story concrete …
BURMA/MYANMAR STAKEHOLDERS’ URGENT TASK: Three key issues that ought to be on the right track in 2020
We have been deeply sunk in civil war, or should we say ethnic conflict war, ever since the inception of Union of Burma in 1948. And as we goes into 2020, there is still no sign of ending this more …
Myanmar’s landmine victims bound to increase as war goes on
On the heels of the Landmine Monitor 2019 by Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor in November, a series of landmines exploded in Namhsan Township in northern Shan State during the second week of December causing both casualties and injuries.
Landmines …
Myanmar’s landmine victims bound to increase as war goes on
On the heels of the Landmine Monitor 2019 by Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor in November, a series of landmines exploded in Namhsan Township in northern Shan State during the second week of December causing both casualties and injuries.
Landmines …
2019 concludes a ‘deadly decade’ for children in conflict, with more than 170,000 grave violations verified since 2010
Children continue to pay a deadly price as conflicts rage around the world, UNICEF said today. Since the start of the decade, the United Nations has verified more than 170,000 grave violations against children in conflict the equivalent of more …