Call to combat forced displacement
Equity and Justice Working Group Bangladesh (EquityBD) and several other organisations formed a human chain in front of National Press Club in the city yesterday marking the World Refugee Day, says a press release.
Speakers at the programme demanded international commitment and justice to combat forced displacement caused by climate change.
Disruptions of monsoon systems and other rainfall regimes, droughts, sea level rise and coastal flooding would cause forced displacement, they said.
They argued that the current mandate of the UNHCR on refugees' covers only individual who flee their countries because of state-led persecution based on race, religion, political opinion, or ethnicity. The mandate of the UN Refugee Convention does neither cover nor comply the core characteristics of the climate change induced migrants crisis.
Therefore, the people forced to be migrated due to climate change should bestow a different status and a different term and they should be given a dignified status with social, cultural and economic rehabilitation.
Md Sumsuddoha, Sanat K Bhowmik, Mostofa Kamal Akhand, Sawkat Ali Tutul, Gaza Sumsuzaman, Abdur Rahman and Atiqul Islam Chowdhury, among others, were present in the human chain.
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