More than half a billion dollars to support the Rohingya in Bangladesh and the region Donor conference pledges more than half a billion dollars to support Rohingya in Bangladesh and the region Written by Dr. Nassim Salah Zaki, Global Peace Ambassador and Middle Eastern African Coordinator for Peace, Human Rights, Children and Women A virtual conference was held for Rohingya refugees. At a virtual conference in support of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh and the region, donors pledged nearly $ 600 million to boost humanitarian assistance, including formal education for refugee children. The conference was held with the participation of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the United States, the United Kingdom and the European Union, to discuss meeting the urgent humanitarian needs of the forcibly displaced Rohingya inside and outside Myanmar, and in hopes of achieving the goal of financing one billion dollars for the year 2020, less than half of which was raised. Curr...
