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Bangladesh - Rohingya women in refugee camps share stories of loss and hopes of recovery by UN Women

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Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. March 2018.

Bangladesh has been hosting Rohingya refugees from Myanmar for nearly 30 years. Since August 2017, some 693,000 Rohingya’s have made their way to Cox’s Bazar in desperate conditions. Of them, 51 per cent are women. The refugee population in Bangladeshi settlements has more than doubled; camps are overcrowded, needs are immediate and enormous, and resources are stretched.

Pictured: Children's clothes produced by women trained in tailoring at the Women's Center in Balukhali camp. As of January 2018, UN Women has set up the first Multi-Purpose Women Centre in the Balukhali refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, in partnership with Action Aid and with support from UN Women National Committee Australia. The Centre provides a safe space for Rohingya women and adolescent girls, where they can build a social network, access information and referral services for gender-based violence, and seek psycho-social counselling. The centre also offers skills training in literacy, livelihood options, leadership and disaster preparedness, and raises awareness about gender issues and risks.

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“I want all children to go to school, especially girls who are told that they should stay home,” says Anastasie, one of the out-of-school children attending classes run by the IRC with EU support, in Cameroon’s Far North region.

Antastasie is 10 years old and lives in a village with her family. She dreams of one day becoming a teacher, and believes all children have the right to an education.

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Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. March 2018.

Bangladesh has been hosting Rohingya refugees from Myanmar for nearly 30 years. Since August 2017, some 693,000 Rohingya’s have made their way to Cox’s Bazar in desperate conditions. Of them, 51 per cent are women. The refugee population in Bangladeshi settlements has more than doubled; camps are overcrowded, needs are immediate and enormous, and resources are stretched.

Pictured: Young women and girls attend an information session about menstrual hygiene at the Women's Center in Balukhali camp on 5 March 2018. As of January 2018, UN Women has set up the first Multi-Purpose Women Centre in the Balukhali refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, in partnership with Action Aid and with support from UN Women National Committee Australia. The Centre provides a safe space for Rohingya women and adolescent girls, where they can build a social network, access information and referral services for gender-based violence, and seek psycho-social counselling. The centre also offers skills training in literacy, livelihood options, leadership and disaster preparedness, and raises awareness about gender issues and risks.

Women have bathing space and clothes washing facility at the Centre—an important service in an area where safe and private spaces for women and girls is scarce. It also provides women and girls who are otherwise confined and isolated in their homes, a safe space to relax, learn new skills and socialize with other women.

Photo: UN Women/Allison Joyce

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Among them, there are thousands of unaccompanied minors fleeing from gang threats and recruitment, extortion, human trafficking and violence. Most of them try to reach the U.S and Canada to rejoin their families, but for many, the journey ends in Mexico.

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Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. March 2018.

Bangladesh has been hosting Rohingya refugees from Myanmar for nearly 30 years. Since August 2017, some 693,000 Rohingya’s have made their way to Cox’s Bazar in desperate conditions. Of them, 51 per cent are women. The refugee population in Bangladeshi settlements has more than doubled; camps are overcrowded, needs are immediate and enormous, and resources are stretched.

Pictured: Balukhali camp March 6, 2018. Noor Nahar, now 35, left her home in Bolibazar, Myanmar some 28 years ago. She was just a child at the time and had hoped to return to Myanmar one day. Now she lives in the Kutupalong registered camp in Ukhiya, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh and has decided to support other Rohingya women refugees by teaching them tailoring and motivating them to learn new skills. Her story reveals the protracted nature of the Rohingya refugee crisis and shows the need for sustained services for women, such as those provided by a UN Women-supported programme, so that they are able to support themselves and each other.

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Bangladesh - Rohingya women in refugee camps share stories of loss and hopes of recovery by UN Women

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Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. March 2018.

Bangladesh has been hosting Rohingya refugees from Myanmar for nearly 30 years. Since August 2017, some 693,000 Rohingya’s have made their way to Cox’s Bazar in desperate conditions. Of them, 51 per cent are women. The refugee population in Bangladeshi settlements has more than doubled; camps are overcrowded, needs are immediate and enormous, and resources are stretched.

Pictured: As of January 2018, UN Women has set up the first Multi-Purpose Women Centre in the Balukhali refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, in partnership with Action Aid and with support from UN Women National Committee Australia. The Centre provides a safe space for Rohingya women and adolescent girls, where they can build a social network, access information and referral services for gender-based violence, and seek psycho-social counselling. The centre also offers skills training in literacy, livelihood options, leadership and disaster preparedness, and raises awareness about gender issues and risks.

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Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. March 2018.

Bangladesh has been hosting Rohingya refugees from Myanmar for nearly 30 years. Since August 2017, some 693,000 Rohingya’s have made their way to Cox’s Bazar in desperate conditions. Of them, 51 per cent are women. The refugee population in Bangladeshi settlements has more than doubled; camps are overcrowded, needs are immediate and enormous, and resources are stretched.

Pictured: A woman walks through a market in Balukhali camp 5 March 2018. Women’s mobility is an important factor to consider within the camp. Traditionally, Rohingya women are expected to wear a burqa when leaving their home or shelter. In the camps, women often share a burqa among themselves to access public spaces. Some have to wait for their turn to borrow a neighbour’s burqa to even step outside their shelter.

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Honduras is among the top countries of origin of refugees and migrants determined to make it to the US. The country suffers political instability of a decade-long and is hostage to widespread gang violence, making it one of the three deadliest countries in Latin America.

Honduran families often flee to save their lives after criminal gangs kill their family members or threaten to do so if they refuse to give into their demands. The humanitarian consequences of this violence are no different from the ones in conflict zones.

The pandemic has made things even more difficult for the 6 out of 10 Hondurans who were already living in a vulnerable situation.

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Juli is receiving social-emotional care in one of the EU-funded Child Friendly Spaces managed by Save the Children.

These areas are meant to support children, helping them to express and deal with emotions related to the often traumatic migration experience.

Here, Juli can share her thoughts with other children who have similar experiences, like her friend Alan*, who hails from the Mexican region of Chiapas and is also seeking to reach the United States with his family.

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OCHA observed an overall increase in violence and insecurity in the Northern Triangle during the pandemic. Criminal groups took advantage of the lockdown to tighten their control over territories and communities, killing their opponents and increasing extortions.

Border closures and health risks have led many to postpone their journey, but those who had no other option to save their lives had to take the risk.

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, most visa and admission processes have been halted: courts are not conducting hearings for health reasons and vulnerable refugees and migrants are forced to wait for months before receiving an appointment to follow up their case.

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As of January 2016, 243,750 people had fled the violence in Central African Republic (CAR) and become refugees in Cameroon.

UN Women Cameroon supports economic and social rehabilitation for vulnerable women and survivors of sexual and gender-based violence in seven refugee camps in three regions of the country.

Pictured: UN Women staff and partners hold a community meeting for women at the Gado-Badzere refugee camp.

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Tigray crisis: refugee women share their story by EU Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid

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30-year old Azmera used to live with her husband and daughter in Humora, located in the Tigray region of Ethiopia. She escaped, and now lives in Tunaydbah camp, in eastern Sudan.

“We had a decent livelihood back home,” she says. “We had freedom and lived a good life.”

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“We support our partners in assisting migrants and refugees, so they can be better prepared seeking asylum or residence permits,” says Liesbeth Schockaert, the EU Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations´ expert on Central America.

Cameroon: safe healing and learning spaces for displaced children by EU Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid

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Education, formal or non-formal, is essential for children in emergency settings. Children get to learn but also play, to overcome the trauma of forced displacement.

To keep displaced children learning and recovering from their traumatic experience, the “Safe Healing and Learning Spaces” also teach children key social-emotional skills like managing their emotions, learning positive coping mechanisms, and setting goals.

Part of this EU-funded programme trains teachers for Healing Classes. In addition, specially-trained social workers will be available to work with vulnerable children and to run group sessions.

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Friendly Spaces are designed to protect children from physical harm and psychosocial distress and to help them continue learning.

Juli and other children attend several classes aimed at reducing educational gaps as a result of the migratory path.

“All children everywhere have the right to protection and a quality education. Integrating child protection and education activities in humanitarian emergencies reduces children’s vulnerability and exposure to risks such as exploitation, abuse, and violence,” says Corita Tassi, EU Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations' expert on protection, gender and education in emergencies for Latin America and the Caribbean.

“Multi-sectoral collaboration is one of our key priorities to promote access to rights in a safe environment and to help restoring a sense of normality, dignity and hope for all affected girls and boys,” she says.

Bangladesh - Rohingya women in refugee camps share stories of loss and hopes of recovery by UN Women

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Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. March 2018.

Bangladesh has been hosting Rohingya refugees from Myanmar for nearly 30 years. Since August 2017, some 693,000 Rohingya’s have made their way to Cox’s Bazar in desperate conditions. Of them, 51 per cent are women. The refugee population in Bangladeshi settlements has more than doubled; camps are overcrowded, needs are immediate and enormous, and resources are stretched.

Pictured: A portrait of Minara Begum, 22, in Balukhali camp on 5 March 2018. Minara Begum is an outreach worker for the Multi-Purpose Women’s Centre. Minara has helped pregnant women reach relief distribution points and carried relief items for them. She has learned to speak up and now presents the issues of other Rohingya women refugees to the authorities in charge of the day-to-day management of the camp.

As of January 2018, UN Women has set up the first Multi-Purpose Women Centre in the Balukhali refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, in partnership with Action Aid and with support from UN Women National Committee Australia. The Centre provides a safe space for Rohingya women and adolescent girls, where they can build a social network, access information and referral services for gender-based violence, and seek psycho-social counselling. The centre also offers skills training in literacy, livelihood options, leadership and disaster preparedness, and raises awareness about gender issues and risks.

Photo: UN Women/Allison Joyce

Mexico: safe spaces for children on the move by EU Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid

Juli's favorite activities are painting, learning words and numbers, and drawing pictures.

“Before the pandemic, the situation was already critical for migrant children like Juli. Now, migrants in Mexico have greater difficulties in accessing sources of employment, having government support due to their lack of documents, or resorting to formal and informal support networks,” says Maripina Menéndez, CEO of Save the Children in Mexico.

“This precariousness has increased the anxiety, frustration, and vulnerability of the migrant population, affecting children and adolescents. It is necessary to double our efforts and implement all the necessary mechanisms to protect their rights and ensure their well-being,” she states.

Mexico: safe spaces for children on the move by EU Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid

Juli sleeps in one of the tents provided by the shelter with her mother and siblings: 3-year-old Abril* and the newborn Jaime*.

Children make up a large portion of those fleeing from countries in Central America´s Northern Triangle and are the most vulnerable and exposed.

In 2020 alone, more than 11,500 children and adolescents were presented to migration authorities in Mexico for unlawful entry. Many of them were traveling alone.

Mexico: safe spaces for children on the move by EU Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid

“Increased violence, social unrest, drought, natural hazards and the coronavirus pandemic force more Central Americans to leave their country and their homes each year to find safety and opportunities elsewhere,” says Liesbeth Schockaert, EU Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations expert on Central America.

“Unfortunately, the pathway to safety is becoming more difficult and traumatising, especially for the most vulnerable, the children. That is why in Central America, providing humanitarian assistance and protection to displaced children in Central America is one of our key concerns and why we support the creation of safe spaces for children,” she adds.

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After crossing into Sudan, Azmera arrived at Tunaydbah camp, located in eastern Sudan.

“Our children had better lives before, when there was peace. My daughter used to go to preschool,” she says.

She began to worry about the impact displacement and the journey had on her daughter.

Azmera has seen improvements in her daughter’s mental health since she started going to the EU-funded safe spaces.

“When she comes home, all she does is talk about school,” she says, smiling at her daughter. “It has really helped to get the depression out of her mind.”

Azmera’s hopes for her daughter’s future keep her strong despite her current circumstances.

She wants Tigray to return to peace so her daughter can return to school one day. “I hope she becomes a career woman who helps the Tigrayan community,” she says, looking lovingly at her daughter. “Not only the Tigrayan community, but the world as whole.”

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When the violence broke out, Azmera escaped without bringing anything with her, and set off on the path towards Sudan with her daughter.

“My daughter had some toys she used to play with and she asks me where her toys are,” she explains wearily. “But she understands that we had to flee and come here.”

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To help Anastasie and her peers create a bridge into formal school, EU funding is supporting the IRC to run “Safe Healing and Learning Spaces”.

Thanks to this programme, pupils are taught basic reading, writing, mathematics and social-emotional skills. At least half of the children targeted are girls.

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She was reunited with her daughter in Sudan, and received treatment for her legs from the IRC’s EU-funded health centre in Gedaref camp.

“I am relieved that we have somewhere to sleep at night,” she says. “But we can’t sleep. Our minds can’t deal with the things we’ve experienced. Even if we try to forget them, we can’t get rid of the memories.”

Despite this, she remains steadfast in her hope to return to Ethiopia and reunite with her 2 sons.

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As of January 2016, 243,750 people had fled the violence in Central African Republic (CAR) and become refugees in Cameroon.

UN Women Cameroon supports economic and social rehabilitation for vulnerable women and survivors of sexual and gender-based violence in seven refugee camps in three regions of the country.

Pictured: UN Women staff and partners hold a community meeting for women at the Gado-Badzere refugee camp.

Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown

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