About 1.4 million persons are estimated to have been left in dire straits, as heavy rains lashed Sylhet and Sunamganj districts, in addition to areas upstream, in India.
“Our precedence is to make sure that essentially the most susceptible households, who had been already dealing with hardships and are actually having their lives and livelihoods upended once more by the floods, can meet their important meals and dietary wants,” stated Simone Parchment, UN World Meals Programme (WFP) Bangladesh Deputy Nation Director.
The company’s subject workplace in Sylhet, is supporting Authorities-led reduction efforts, distributing fortified biscuits to over 23,000 households to assist them meet their instant wants.
WFP additionally plans to offer money help to those 23,000 and an extra 48,000 households it pre-identified as a part of its preparedness efforts.
Additional heavy rains are forecast within the affected areas and adjoining catchment areas over the approaching days, which may worsen the flood state of affairs, in response to reviews.
World of sports activities is just not immune from human rights challenges: UN rights chief
Regardless of the sporting superb of equality and truthful alternatives, athletes encounter many types of rights violations and abuses, the UN Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk warned on Monday.
Talking on the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, simply weeks from the start of the Paris 2024 Olympics, Mr. Türk insisted that “mega sporting occasions” with “huge” attain such because the soccer World Cup, and the Olympic and Paralympic video games ought to function platforms to advocate towards inequalities.
“The world of sports activities is just not immune from human rights challenges, together with when mega occasions are organized. And a few worrying points are extra seen than others,” Mr. Türk stated.
Amongst these points, Mr. Türk highlighted racist or sexist incidents, abuse, violence towards girls, corruption, discrimination on the idea of faith or spiritual apparel, incapacity, nationality, or sexual orientation and gender identification.
Mr. Türk welcomed the choice of some companies within the sports activities world to align their practices with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.
He stated that human rights insurance policies and grievance mechanisms are more and more being included in large-scale sport occasions, referring to a case in Spain the place soccer followers had been punished for racially abusing the Brazilian ahead Vinicius Junior.
WHO helps vaccination marketing campaign in Angola
In well being information, authorities in Angola, supported by UN businesses, have initiated a vaccination marketing campaign to curb the unfold of polio and shield youngsters from childhood paralysis.
Polio is a extremely infectious illness brought on by a virus that invades the nervous system and may trigger whole paralysis inside hours. Whereas there is no such thing as a remedy for polio, it may be prevented by means of vaccination.
In response to the UN World Well being Group (WHO), which is supporting the Authorities, the central goal of the marketing campaign is to extend the immunity of youngsters below 5 to shortly interrupt the virus’s transmission within the nation.
The programme goals to attain at the very least 95 % vaccination protection in all districts, establish suspected instances, and lift consciousness of routine vaccination.
Vaccination groups will go from home to accommodate to make sure that no baby is left unvaccinated, and stuck posts might be accessible in extremely populated areas.
The primary spherical of the vaccination marketing campaign in Might 2024 efficiently vaccinated over 5.5 million youngsters throughout the nation, overlaying the complete goal group in danger.
Within the second spherical of the vaccination marketing campaign, as in earlier initiatives, vaccination groups will proceed their house-to-house efforts, and stuck posts might be accessible in well being amenities, markets, church buildings, colleges, nurseries, and different locations of excessive inhabitants focus, WHO stated.