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Rohingyas with disabilities suffering in camps

Human Rights Report
Overcrowded, hilly and rain-soaked mega camp for Rohingyas in Cox's Bazar district is precarious for everyone, but especially for people with disabilities. More than 700,000 people reside in the camp after fleeing the Myanmar military's campaign of ethnic cleansing more than a year ago. "Walking through the camps, we found large Rohingya refugees with disabilities," said Bill Frelick, refugee rights director at Human Rights Watch in a video message.
"Many of the people in the camp had acquired their disabilities from brutal attacks by Myanmar's military," Frelick said. Despite efforts by the United Nations, humanitarian organisations, and the refugees themselves to build handrails, many walkways are impassable for people who have difficulty walking, said the New-York-based rights body.
Hussein Ahmad, whose 17-year-old son was shot in the neck during their escape from Myanmar and is now paralysed from the waist down, said: "I thank the doctor who gave my son a wheelchair, but I can't use it because the roads are very dangerous and keep getting worse. It's time for my son to study, but he can't walk, and his life is being destroyed in front of me."
Work to shore up the hastily and haphazardly built huts and other camp structures has been hindered by the Bangladeshi government's insistence that the refugees are only staying temporarily and will soon return to Myanmar, said the HRW.





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BHRC & IHRC Human Rights Report on September 2018 in Bangladesh

Total 202 persons killed in September 2018

Human Rights Report:

The documentation section of Bangladesh Human Rights Commission (BHRC) and International Human Rights CommissionIHRC jointly furnished this human rights survey report on the basis of daily newspapers and information received from its district, subdistrict and municipal branches. As per survey it appears that 202 peoples were killed in September, 2018 in all over the country. It proves that the law and order situation is not satisfactory. Bangladesh Human Rights Commissions extremely anxious about this situation. In the month of September, 2018 average 7 people were killed in each day.
The Law enforcing agencies and related Govt. departments should be more responsible so that percentage of killing September be brought down to zero level. To institutionalize the democracy and to build human rights based society the rule of law and order must be established everywhere. Through enforcing rule of law only such violation against human rights can be minimized.
It appears from documentation division of BHRC:
Total 202 persons killed in September 2018
Killing for dowry 6, killing by family violence 32, Killed due to social discrepancy 48, Killed by Law enforcing authority 29, Killed due to doctor negligence 9, Kill due to abduction 11, Assassination 7,
Mysterious death 55, Women & Chilled killed due to rape 5.
Killed by several accidents:
Killed by road accident 258, Suicide 19
Besides victims of torture:
Rape 23, Sexual Harassment 7, Torture for Dowry 4, Journalist Torture 1.


 

Saima Wazed attends 3rd annual IDUAI
 

Human Rights Report:
Chairperson of the National Advisory Committee on Autism and Neuro-Development Disorders (NDDs) Saima Wazed Hossain attended the third annual commemoration of the International Day for Universal Access to Information (IDUAI) in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
The event was organised from 28-29 September at Hotel Mount Lavinia in Colombo consisted of international panels, expert workshops and other high-level events and commemorations, said a press release on Friday.
Saima, a licensed School Psychologist, participated in two different workshops- Policies for Digital Scholarship (OER and OA) and OER and Disability- as panelist along with other dignitaries from Sri Lanka and India.
The workshop discussed the availability of technological resources in Bangladesh for people with learning in general and persons with disabilities and how they are being integrated in the education system along with the barriers which is preventing the resources from being properly utilized.
The event also addressed the ways of Bangladesh government along with other organisations which will identify measures to minimize those barriers.
Saima, goodwill ambassador for Autism of World Health Organisation in the South East Asia Region and also the chairperson of Shuchona Foundation, met other significant members of the Steering Committee on NDDs, key officials involved in ECD and Education sector, and other stakeholders who assist in developing a holistic programme for children with ASD as part of MH and disability.
Since 2016, UNESCO marks September 28 as the "International Day for Universal Access to Information" (IDUAI). The day has particular relevance with the new 2030 Development Agenda, and in particular with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) target 16.10 which calls for ensuring public access to information and protection of fundamental freedoms.
To mark the Day, the ministry of telecommunication, digital infrastructure and foreign employment of Sri Lanka and UNESCO jointly organised the flagship event.
 

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Grave humanitarian mistake in Syria
 

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Turkey has warned it will not stand by and watch a Russian-led attack on Syria's Idlib province, which it said could turn the densely-packed north west of the country into a lake of blood and force an overwhelming exodus of refugees. Speaking hours after a three-way summit in Tehran at which the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, pleaded with Russia and Iran to halt any forthcoming offensive, Erdogan ramped up his rhetoric, insisting Ankara would not participate in "furthering the interests of Bashar al-Assad".
Vladimir Putin had earlier rejected Erdogan's calls for a ceasefire in Idlib, the last opposition stronghold in Syria. The Russian president holds the key to the forthcoming operation the most significant in a series of Russian and Iranian-led victories across the country. We will neither watch from the sidelines nor participate in such a game, Erdogan said in a message on Twitter. Turkish government spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said recently Idlib is a ticking bomb. We can turn it off and start a new process in Syria if the international community gets serious about the Syrian war and shows that they do care about the Syrian people. Meanwhile, Russian jets renewed their bombardment of southern Idlib, intensively attacking the city of al-Habit, killing four people. Russian jets also struck in the east of the province.After seven years of war, Idlib has become the focus of a struggle that has spilled well beyond Syria's borders, transforming the conflict into one of the most complex and consequential battlefields of modern times.
Donald Trump has warned Bashar al-Assad and the Syrian president's allies Iran and Russia not to recklessly attack in the rebel-held Idlib province, warning that hundreds of thousands of people could be killed. The Russians and Iranians would be making a grave humanitarian mistake to take part in this potential human tragedy. Hundreds of thousands of people could be killed. Don't let that happen!" Trump tweeted on Monday night. Up to three million people in the region are bracing for imminent attack by Russian forces who sense victory in one of the last parts of Syria still out of regime control. On Friday the Russian navy manoeuvred in the nearby Mediterranean, while other nations also took positions; the Turkish army sent an armoured convoy deep into Syria, Iranian-backed militias mobilised to the south and the Syrian army was placed on high alert. The northern province and surrounding areas are the last major enclave held by insurgents fighting Assad, who has been backed by both Russian and Iranian forces in Syria's seven-year-old civil war. Trump has sought better relations with Russia since taking office in 2017 but the US has been unable to rein in Moscow's military and diplomatic support for Assad. The US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, said on Friday that Washington viewed any government assault on Idlib as an escalation of Syria's war, and the state department warned that Washington would respond to any chemical attack by Damascus.


 

 

 7 Gazans, including 2 boys, killed by Israeli fire on border

Human Rights Report:

Israeli troops killed seven Palestinians, two of them children, and wounded dozens more, Palestinian health officials said, in the deadliest day in recent weeks as Gaza's Hamas rulers stepped up protests along the border fence.
Thousands of Palestinians gathered Friday at five locations along Gaza Strip's frontier with Israel in response to calls by Hamas, the militant group that has controlled Gaza since seizing it from the Palestinian Authority in 2007.
Two of the dead were children, aged 12 and 14, the Gaza Health Ministry said, adding that all the dead had gunshot wounds. At least 90 other protesters were wounded by live fire, officials said.
Hamas has led weekly protests since March, but accelerated them in recent weeks to near daily events, pressing in large part for an end to a crippling Israeli-Egyptian blockade imposed after Hamas's violent takeover of Gaza in 2007. Hamas ousted forces loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in an armed coup.
At the fence, protesters burned dozens of tires, using the thick black smoke as a screen to throw rocks and explosives toward Israeli troops stationed on the opposite side of the fence. The soldiers responded with tear gas and gunfire.
The Israeli military said in a statement that in response to "grenades and explosive devices" hurled at troops during the protests, Israeli aircraft carried out two airstrikes on Hamas militant positions in the Gaza Strip. There were no Israeli casualties reported in Friday's clashes.
Hamas has led and organized the protests, but turnout has also been driven by growing despair over blockade-linked hardship, including lengthy power cuts and soaring unemployment.
Israeli troops have killed at least 143 Palestinians since protests began in late March, and a Palestinian sniper killed an Israeli soldier in August.
Israel argues it's defending its border and accuses Hamas of using the protests as a screen for attempts to breach the border fence to attack civilians and soldiers. Human rights groups have accused Israeli troops of excessive and unlawful use of force against unarmed protesters.
Hamas and Israel came to the brink of serious conflict this summer as violence escalated along the border. The two sides attempted to reach an agreement through indirect talks mediated by the United Nations and Egypt to ease tensions in exchange for lifting some restrictions on the economically crippled enclave. But those negotiations have stalled in recent weeks.
 

Quake, tsunami kills at least 30 on Indonesia's Sulawesi island
 

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A tsunami up to two metres (six feet) high swept through Palu at dusk after the sleepy but growing tourist resort was rocked by a 7.5 magnitude earthquake.
Amateur footage shown by local TV stations, which could not immediately be authenticated by Reuters, showed waters crashing into houses along Palu's shoreline, scattering shipping containers and flooding into a mosque in the city.
"Bodies of victims were found in several places, because they were hit by the rubble of collapsing buildings or swept by tsunami ... but we are still collecting data," Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, National Disaster Mitigation Agency spokesman said on Saturday.
Doctor Komang Adi Sujendra told Metro TV that 30 people were killed and their bodies taken to his hospital, adding another 12 injured needed orthopaedic surgery.
National Disaster Mitigation Agency spokesman Nugroho declined to give an official death toll.
The Palu area was hit by a lighter quake earlier on Friday, which destroyed some houses, killed one person and injured at least 10 in the fishing town of Donggala, closest to the epicentre, authorities said.
The US Geological Survey put the magnitude of the second quake at a strong 7.5, after first saying it was 7.7.
The quake and tsunami caused a power outage that cut communications around Palu. On Saturday, authorities were still having difficulties coordinating rescue efforts without power and communications as the area was rocked by aftershocks.
Metro TV played an amateur footage which showed water remaining from the tsunami, a collapsed bridge, large cracks in roads and buildings badly damaged.
Tezar Kodongan, a resident of Palu who took one of the videos, told the TV station some of the city landmarks were broken. "There is no evacuation yet in the disaster area," Kodongan added.
More than 600,000 people live in Donggala and Palu.


 

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