IOM chief visits Rohingya camps today
DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENT
William Lacy Swing, director general of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), the United Nations migration agency, arrived in the capital yesterday with an intention to mobilise necessary resources to provide humanitarian and protection to hundreds of housands of Rohingyas, who had to flee Rakhine to escape from the atrocities of the Myanmar security forces. His 4-day visit in Bangladesh aims to demonstrate the enormity of the humanitarian needs of Rohingyas and the UN response to it with a strong IOM leadership through the ISCG (Inter Sector Coordination Group) in collaboration with the government, development and humanitarian actors, and local communities to address the urgent needs of greater humanitarian support, said a news release issued by the Bangladesh chapter of the global migration body.
His visit also intends to mobilize the urgently needed resources to provide life-saving humanitarian assistance and protection to refugees in Bangladesh and its host communities, including proper registration, as set out in the Response Plan, it said. As part of his visit he will visit the Makeshift Settlements of Rohingyas in Coxs Bazar on 16th October to observe the crisis on the ground. He will also meet concerned diplomats, donor representatives, ambassadors, ministers, bureaucrats and UNCT members, it added.
