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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 - June 2022
- 24,718Detainees in 5 prisons benefitted from a programme to prevent and control the spread of COVID-19
- 144Missing people traced and put in contact with their families through the Restoring Family Links programme
- 178First responders, including members of law enforcement agencies and the armed forces, joined basic first-aid training
- 499People benefitted from mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) counselling sessions conducted in Cox’s Bazar
- 5,098People benefitted from individual and community sessions conducted by volunteers and social workers in Cox’s Bazar
- 30,000People benefitted from ICRC-supported services, developed with Teknaf Municipality, for the safe collection and treatment of latrine sludge
- 4,000Displaced people from Rakhine provided with food on a monthly basis
- 2,137People with disabilities fitted with prostheses and orthoses and given physiotherapy services
- 437Military and paramilitary officers received training in International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and International Human Rights Law (IHRL)
- 200Volunteers from four BDRCS units given orientation to increase their acceptance, security and access to people and communities in need
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- Publications
- 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