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In Bangladesh, the ICRC helps people affected by violence, visits detainees, supports physical rehabilitation services and promotes IHL. Together with the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society, it strives to re-establish family links where contacts between relatives have been interrupted, and to reunite missing people with their families.
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In numbers
Facts and figures — Jan - Dec 2023
- 21,279detainees were visited in 5 prisons
- 673Red Cross messages or oral messages were exchanged to restore contact among separated family members
- 180BDRCS volunteers received advanced first-aid training and 26 others joined training of trainers’ sessions
- 3,396people with disabilities were fitted with prostheses and orthoses and received physiotherapy services
- 4,700household visits, 130 community sessions, 9 school sessions, 2 street drama shows and 42 public announcements were conducted to promote sustainable sludge management services
- 4,000people displaced from Rakhine received emergency food, essential supplies, and 108 shelter kits were distributed among host communities in Tumbru, Bandarban
- 283faculty members, NGO representatives, trainee diplomats, judges BDRCS staff, and university students enhanced their knowledge in IHL by participating in IHL sessions and events
- 336BDRCS staff and 70 varied participants joined sessions on the BDRCS mandates, Fundamental Principles of the Movement, and Safer Access Framework
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- Publications
- ICRC Bangladesh: Facts and Figures — Jan - June 2023
- ICRC Bangladesh: Facts and Figures — Jan - Dec 2022
- ICRC Bangladesh: Facts and Figures — Jan - June 2022
- ICRC Bangladesh: Facts and Figures — 2021
- ICRC Bangladesh: Operational Highlights — Jan - June 2021
- ICRC Bangladesh COVID-19 Response - June 2020
- COVID-19: Authorities in Asia and the Pacific Should Do More to Include Migrants in their Response
- COVID-19: Weekly Report - 10 - 16 May 2020
- ICRC and BDRCS Fact & Figures - November 2019