Disasters
Key Facts
Switzerland - IOM reports that 345,440 migrants and refugees entered Europe by sea in 2016 through 20 November, arriving mostly in Greece and Italy. Some 171,264 people have arrived in Greece and 168,542 in Italy during 2016. The total is well below the number of arrivals at this point in 2015, by which time some 883,393 migrants and refugees had made the journey.
Highlights
The Report on the Strategic Review of Food Security and Nutrition in Bangladesh was launched this month. The report praises the country’s tremendous gains in becoming overall food self-sufficient and in reducing the proportion of stunted children. It provides strategic recommendations on major actions needed to reduce the remaining high numbers of people that continue to face food-insecurity (estimated to number 40 million people – a quarter of the population).
The quest of the last 15 years to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) taught us that Global Goals can motivate and help sustain leaps in human progress. It also taught us that the specifics matter. In some places, the MDGs became a widely-recognized, consistent and important driver of local progress; in others, the role and impact of the MDGs was more ambiguous. A lot depended on way the MDGs were implemented: if local change agents made them meaningful locally; if local leaders drew on their legitimacy and visibility; if they were employed to solve real-life problems etc.
DHAKA – Some 42,500 people in northwest Bangladesh are to receive financial assistance through a WFP initiative, enabling them to buy food and other necessities they lost when the area was hit by recurrent monsoon floods from August.
Operational Summary
19-23 July: Heavy rains in the main river basins of Bangladesh and upstream catchments of India have caused severe flooding in the north and northeastern parts of Bangladesh affecting 19 districts.
Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS) mobilized volunteers to provide immediate assistance, including evacuation services.
KEY UPDATES
Countries and territories reporting mosquito-borne Zika virus infections for the first time in the past week:
o None
Countries and territories reporting microcephaly and other central nervous system (CNS) malformations potentially associated with Zika virus infection for the first time in the past week:
o Argentina and Guadeloupe
Countries and territories reporting Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) cases associated with Zika virus infection for the first time in the past week:
o None
Bangladesh has singularly failed to protect its Ahmadi, Buddhist, Christian, Hindu and Shi’a Muslim communities from a new outbreak of targeted attacks and communal violence, says a report by Minority Rights Group International (MRG).
A year and a half ago, thousands of desperate Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants and asylum-seekers were abandoned at sea, shocking and horrifying many around the world. But more than a year later, little has changed.
Bloodshed in Rakhine state is most serious since 2012 when hundreds were killed in communal clashes
Some people trying to cross to Bangladesh gunned down-residents
Bloodshed most serious since communal clashes in 2012
More than 80 pushed away by Bangladesh, may be at sea
By Serajul Quadir and Wa Lone
by Megan Rowling | @meganrowling | Thomson Reuters Foundation
Friday, 11 November 2016 11:00 GMT
Bangladesh may set up a body to deal with "loss and damage" from climate change, but how would it be funded?
By Megan Rowling
BARCELONA, Nov 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Bangladesh is set to make a splash at the U.N. climate talks in Morocco when experts and officials present a proposal for a national body to deal with the losses and damage the low-lying South Asian nation expects to suffer from climate change.
by Beh Lih Yi | @BehLihYi | Thomson Reuters Foundation
Friday, 11 November 2016 10:54 GMT
Three fifths of the 5.9 million children who died before their fifth birthday last year lived in just 10 countries
By Beh Lih Yi
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Sixty percent of the world's 5.9 million children who died before their fifth birthday last year were in 10 countries in Asia and Africa, said a study published on Friday, prompting calls for action to reduce the mortality.
Introduction
1.1 Purpose
The Swedish Red Cross (SRC) and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) seeks to review the PMER capacity building support provided to selected National Societies (NS) by SRC and/or IFRC during the period 2012 until present.
In view of limited resources and time constraints, it was agreed to carry out the review in three of the initially planned five countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh,
Myanmar, South Sudan and Sudan).
1.2 Review criteria
KEY FIGURES
New Report ‘Transitioning from the MDGs to the SDGs’ Calls for Collaboration to ‘Deliver as One’*
Between 1 January and 30 September 2016, 20,897 children arrived to Italy by sea: 9 out of 10 children arrived unaccompanied (19,001). UASC thus account for some 14% of all sea arrivals in the above period, an increase of around 88% compared to the same period of 2015, when 8% of all those arrived by sea were UASC.
132,043 Sea arrivals Jan-Sep 2016
132,071 Sea arrivals Jan-Sep 2015
Between 1 January and 30 September 2016, 132,043 persons arrived to Italy by sea, compared to 132,071 sea arrivals in the first nine months of 2015. The number of sea arrivals is therefore almost equal to that of last year, indicating that the decrease in arrivals on the Eastern Mediterrnean route has not had a direct impact on arrivals through the Central Mediterranean.
KEY UPDATES
Countries and territories reporting mosquito-borne Zika virus infections for the first time in the past week:
o Montserrat, Palau
Countries and territories reporting microcephaly and other central nervous system (CNS) malformations potentially associated with Zika virus infection for the first time in the past week:
o None
Countries and territories reporting Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) cases associated with Zika virus infection for the first time in the past week:
o None
Overview of Hazard Incidences in October 2016
Hazard that occurred in October include launch capsize, building collapse and earthquake. Apart from these, three severe Fire incidents reported in this month. Moreover, light rainfall is seen in many districts throughout this month. Furthermore, in 26th and 27th of October, a deep depression was likely to observed, but it was not turned over to tropical cyclone.
OVERVIEW OF MIGRANT SITUATION IN TURKEY
According to the latest available figures from the Turkish Directorate General for Migration Management (DGMM) currently there are approximately 3, 1 million foreign nationals present in Turkish territory seeking for the international protection.
