UNITED NATIONS, May 11 -- A surge in births among Rohingya refugee women in Bangladesh is imminent, and the fact that possibly thousands of the pregnancies resulted from rape makes the provision of proper medical care in the camps more difficult, according to a report of the UN News portal on Friday.
With the monsoon season fast approaching in Bangladesh, UN agencies and their partners are struggling to protect nearly 700,000 Rohingya refugees from disaster and disease. While the imminent new births are already a great challenge to the world body, the wrenching legacy of sexual violence makes the job even harder.
The displaced population includes an estimated 40,000 pregnant women, UN officials estimate, many of whom are expected to give birth in coming weeks.
An unknown but significant share of these pregnancies, aid officials believe, resulted from rapes committed by members of the Myanmar army and allied militants.
Pregnancies resulting from "what we believe could have been a frenzy of sexual violence in August and September last year could come to term very soon," Andrew Gilmour, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, told UN News. "So, we are expecting a surge of births."
In March, Gilmour traveled to Cox's Bazar on Bangladesh's southeast coast, where the refugees have settled in camps and make-shift clearings after escaping violence in Myanmar's Rakhine State.
Fearing stigma, sometimes feeling depressed or shamed, pregnant refugee women are often reluctant to admit that they were raped, according to medical and aid workers.
Attacks by Rohingya activists on Myanmar security posts in northern Rakhine State on August 25, 2017 prompted alleged massive retribution by Myanmar security forces and vigilante groups, forcing the mostly Muslim Rohingyas to flee into neighboring Bangladesh. Sexual violence as well as killings and the burning of villages were reported.
考研名师英语作文预测科技的运用
考研英语作文常用句型3
考研英语写作的漫谈
2014年考研英语写作议论文的三大高分句式
考研英语作文之美文范例陶器
考研英语作文常用句型4
考研英语写作常用语句的开篇句二
2014考研英语资料考研英语写作点睛200句20
2014考研英语资料考研英语写作点睛200句14
考研英语写作备考的三步走
2014考研英语高分作文必背的100句名言3
2014考研英语作文起始段决定整篇成败
2014考研英语资料考研英语写作点睛200句19
考研英语作文话题预测网络热词
考研英语作文常用句型5
考研英语作文之美文范例植物拟态
考研英语作文常用句型6
考研名师推荐2014考研英语作文范文4
九句话模板写好2014年考研英语大作文
考研名师推荐2014考研英语作文范文1
关于健康英语作文
考研英语作文之美文范例北美殖民时期的妇女
考研英语写作应用文怎么写能出彩
考研英语作文常用句型2
2014考研英语高分作文必背的100句名言2
2014考研英语资料考研英语写作点睛200句9
2014考研英语资料考研英语写作点睛200句10
考研英语写作常用语句的开篇句四
考研英语作文之美文范例盐与新陈代谢
2014考研英语资料考研英语写作点睛200句4
不限 |
英语教案 |
英语课件 |
英语试题 |
不限 |
不限 |
上册 |
下册 |
不限 |