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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 2022
- 45,550Detainees in 5 prisons benefited from a programme to prevent and control the spread of COVID-19
- 293Missing people traced and put in contact with their families through the Restoring Family Links programme
- 121,061consultations and 43,367 primary-health-care consultations provided, respectively, at the Emergency department of District Sadar Hospital and other ICRC-supported health facilities in Cox’s Bazar
- 115BDRCS volunteers received Basic ‘Management of the Dead’ training
- 2,507People benefited from Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) counselling sessions in Cox’s Bazar
- 4,303Disabled people fitted with prostheses and orthoses and provided with physiotherapy services
- 30,000People benefited from ICRC-supported services, developed with Teknaf Municipality, for the safe collection and treatment of latrine sludge and to promote good hygiene
- 4,000People displaced from Rakhine provided with food and essential supplies. The displaced and host community also benefited from a multipurpose activities shelter
- 698Police officers and 437 military and paramilitary officers received training in International Rules and Standards for Policing, international humanitarian law (IHL) and international human rights law (IHRL)
- 238BDRCS volunteers received orientation on how to increase their acceptance, security and access to people and communities in need
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- Publications
- 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