Security, dignity, self-determination: empowering Rohingya refugee women in Bangladesh
Caritas Bangladesh is putting Rohingya women in charge of designing, building and maintaining their families’ shelters in the refugee camps of Bangladesh.
Caritas Bangladesh is putting Rohingya women in charge of designing, building and maintaining their families’ shelters in the refugee camps of Bangladesh.
Haiti’s Civil Protection Directorate reports that the quake has claimed over 2,200 lives, injured more than 12,250 people and destroyed or damaged nearly 130,000 houses. UNICEF also notes that scores of water supply and healthcare facilities and hundreds of schools have been damaged.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports that about 800,000 people need vital relief assistance and that there is a heightened the risk of another wave of COVID-19 infections. This has prompted the UN to issue an emergency appeal for US $187.3 million.
At 8:29 a.m. on Saturday, August 14, 2021, a powerful magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck Haiti’s Tiburon Peninsula, about 150 kilometres west of the capital, Port-au-Prince. Much of the damage occurred in the towns of Jérémie and Les Cayes. The force of the earthquake was felt across most of the country, particularly in the West Department.
By Judith Faucher, International Projects Funding Officer On August 4, 2020, a dockside fire in Beirut, Lebanon, triggered a series of explosions in a chemical
Hurricane-affected communities have been pressing for the reconstruction of river embankments in the Sula Valley. Arriving close together in November 2020, Hurricanes Eta and Iota
On May 6, 2021, Development and Peace — Caritas Canada launched an urgent appeal to help our partners respond to the COVID-19 emergency in India
The wailing sirens of ambulances rushing to overfull hospitals; the frustrated cries of doctors left with no drugs to administer; the gasping of oxygen-starved lungs;
At about 3:30 p.m. local time on Monday, March 22, 2021, a fire broke out it the Balukhali section of the Kutupalong Rohingya refugee camp
Observed from February 7 to 13 this year, International Development Week offers people “an opportunity to pause and to acknowledge Canadian contributions to poverty reduction
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