Daily Monitor
Thursday April 22 2021
Food distribution at Ayilo I Refugee Settlement Camp in Pakele Sub-county, Adjumani District, on June 8, 2020. PHOTO | MARTIN OKUDI
Summary
The minister was responding to remarks by Ms Rosa Malango, the United Nations Resident coordinator, that WFP was unable to purchase food locally because of “poor quality” of Uganda’s foodstuffs.
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The Minister for Relief, Disaster Preparedness and Refugees, Mr Hilary Onek, has said the United Nations must buy food from Ugandan farmers to feed refugees or relocate them to countries supplying it.
Mr Onek, who is no stranger to such demands, on Tuesday argued that claims that local produce lacks quality is an excuse to ring-fence lucrative food supply for foreigners.
School/Unit: Regional Services Div (MENAR), Amman
Department/Office: Reg Serv - Prog Section, Amman
Categories: Child Protection
UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.
Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.
And we never give up.
For every child, protection.
Duration: 11 months (full time)
1 June 2021 - 30 April 2022
Duty Station: Home based/Remote support
The overall objective of the assignment is to strengthen case management and information management capacity across the MENA region to facilitate the safe and voluntary repatriation of foreign children from Syria to their countries of origin.
School/Unit: Bangladesh
Categories: Education, P-4
UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.
Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.
And we never give up.
For every child, education
Purpose of Assignment:
The purpose of the Assignment is to provide technical and managerial support to ensure effective management of the education programme, including management of the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) funds for the Continuity of Education for Rohingya nationals and host communities under the Cox’s Bazar Field Office. Before the COVID 19 pandemic, UNICEF in collaboration with 14 partners ensured access to education for over 220,000 Rohingya refugee children, which represents over 70 per cent of all refugee children aged 4 to 14 years who have be
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Committee on Rights of Migrant Workers Discusses Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic on Migrants and Ratification of Convention
OHCHR
The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families this afternoon held an informal meeting with States and other stakeholders, during which participants discussed the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on migrants, the ratification of the Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families, and the Committee’s work, among other topics.
Committee Chairperson Can Ünver said the rights of migrant workers were frequently violated. These abuses against migrants increased even more when they were in an irregular situation. COVID-19 was currently wreaking havoc all over the world, affecting all and imposing new and difficult challenges for Governments. Migrant workers and their families were in an even more vulnerable situation: they f