UNICEF Bangladesh, which stands for United Nations Children Fund, tweeted out on December 9th, 209 about the effects of the cyclone that recently hit the country of Bangladesh. The organization shared an image of local people in Padma Pakur, Khulna, Bangladesh attempting to build a flood barrier by creating a human chain to pass materials along to quickly build the barrier.  This cyclone stayed in Bangladesh for 36 hours, making it one of the longest cyclones the country has faced in five decades. There have been lives lost, property damaged, and social impacts across mainly costal communities. With the horrible after effects of flooding from the cyclone, the tweet calls for action to help prevent the climate change that is rocking the world. Climate change and sea levels rising have increased the destructivness of these natural disasters, and leading to even more damage and loss of life. 

UNICEF is a subunit of the United Nations, so, if they are out reaching on social media about the crisis, what are they physically doing to help those impacted by the natural disaster? Is there anything the Bangladesh government can do to repay those in the costal communities that were horrifically impacted by the cyclone? What can foreign nations, such as the United States, do to decrease the lasting effect of the disaster? What does the long term impact of the cyclone look like for the country and for its citizens? How much foreign aid is Bangladesh getting? Is it more or less than a western country gets during a natural disaster?

Local people in Padma Pakur, Khulna, #Bangladesh, form a human chain to build a new flood barrier after Cyclone.

Climate change is robbing millions of Bangladeshi people of their livelihood.

#COP25 #ClimateAction pic.twitter.com/i9syT8GXWs

— UNICEF Bangladesh (@UNICEFBD) December 9, 2019

HR: https://reliefweb.int/report/bangladesh/cyclone-bulbul-month-impact-bangladesh-s-coastal-communities

A tweet sent out by the Awami League on November 30th, 2019 reports on an article stating that, according to the International Organization for Migration, Bangladesh is currently hosting the most stateless people in the world. This calculation is following the Rohingya refugee crisis. In the Rohingya refugee crisis, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya were displaced after brutal discrimination, mainly in Myanmar. Bangladesh opened up their boarders to the Rohingya, housing them in refugee camps spread all across the country. While these refugee camps are in very poor condition, and the Rohingya are still fighting for themselves and Bangladesh officials are looking for a location that they can possibly one day call home. This crisis leads to some uncertainties, such as how the government is actually treating these refugees, and what the future holds for these stateless citizens.

Is this refugee crisis going to have long term effects on the political relationship between Bangladesh and Myanmar? The United Nations has added their say on some issues regarding this crisis, such as UN authorities not giving their support to Bangladesh moving some of these citizens to the remote Island of Bhashan Char, however, is there more the UN can do to provide aid to the situation? How can the United States step up and provide aid to these displaced citizens or to Bangladesh? Is there a way to improve the refugee camps these people are forced to live in? If so, what would be the political and economic strain on Bangladesh for providing such aid?

#Bangladesh hosts most stateless people in the world: @UNmigration https://t.co/OlcmOTOm0Q

— Awami League (@albd1971) November 30, 2019

HR: https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2019/11/29/iom-bangladesh-hosts-most-stateless-people-in-the-world 

Through the creative and passionate voice of 22-year old, readers are welcomed onto the blog called 18, run by college student Sabhanaz Rashid Diya. This blog is used as a creative source to post poems, photos, ‘articles of her life’, and her opinions on current issues facing the world. This blog shows the mind of a young student starving to get her thoughts and words out into the world. She sometimes is very thoughtful in her writings, while other times she uses the platform as a space for her to spout out randomness to clear her mind. She says about herself, “I am known for serious and angry post-modern monologues.” While she describes herself as an angsty youth with an aversion to pink and a desire to jump into the depths of the unknown, she has a sensitive side to her that she has expressed through writing since the age of nine. She writes stories of herself, of a child she lost, of difficult times in her life, and other situations in which readers can find parts of themselves in. She analysis social norms and issues, such as the judgment she feels on airplanes just because of her race/ethnicity, artists ideals and works, restraints of freedom of speech in media and many more. Her blog is a world view coming from someone as normal as the rest of us, someone that has had life experiences, and sees the world through the same eyes as many of her readers have.

Many of Diya’s articles, especially the ones she writes about the chapters of her life are somewhat vague. She wrote an article about a child she lost, however she does not give any background information into the loss of the child, she stays within the emotional realm of the situation. What would be her specific reasoning behind this? Many readers would like to get that deeper understanding into what happened to this lost child, as well as the emotional impact and her opinions on it. She has a heavy focus on art throughout all of her blog. What ways is art positively or negatively affecting Bangladesh as a whole? How is she involved in art in her country outside of this blog? She has began to write children stories, which is her step into reaching into the physical artistic world. Does she have a connection with children because she lost one herself, or has the connection always been there? She offers her blog in English, does this mean her objective is to reach people outside of Bangladesh as well as the select citizen within the country that can read English? What would be the benefit to her to write this blog in English? Understanding these questions would provide a brighter light into the mind of the author and her artistic vision for the site.

https://18forlife.wordpress.com/

Bangladesh authorities have announced that they will build barbed-wire fences around Rohingya refugee camps in order to prevent them from growing. There are nearly 30 camps near the boarder, and it is unclear when construction will begin. Before the plan to build fences, the Bangladesh telecommunication regulators asked cellphone companies to shut down service within the camps and restrict internet access. As the refugees came from Myanmar, negotiations were attempted to move the refugees back to their home, but none of the refugees wanted to return voluntarily and they will not be forced to.

These refugees fled their homeland as a response to harsh military crackdown within Myanmar. However, it seems that violence follows them everywhere they go. They are shoved into soon-to-be fenced in camps, have very limited access to the rest of the world, and up to 40 Rohingya have been killed because of a possible connection with drug smuggling. There have been a few fights between the police and the Rohingya resulting in the loss of refugee lives.

If these refugees attempted to find hospitality in a country not in South Asia, would they have more luck in staying out of violence?

Bangladesh has stated that they will not force the refugees to return to Myanmar, so why are they being so hostile to them being in their country? Do they believe making the refugees live in such poor conditions with fenced in communities and no cell phone or internet access will drive them to return to their homeland?

Why has the UN not stepped in to help these refugees more? Do they believe this conflict will work itself out or do more Rohingya lives have to be lost before they feel obligated to provide outside aid?

HR: https://www.chron.com/news/world/article/Bangladesh-to-install-fences-around-Rohingya-14470017.php

Situation:

In early August 2018, two college students in Bangladesh were killed by a speeding public bus. Following this incident, thousands of college students took to the streets to protest dangerous drivers in the country. They have been stopping vehicles and demanding they show their drivers license and paperwork. This encryption is a young adult calling their fellow college students to the streets to take part in the peaceful protest. The term horses will be used to replace cars and path will be used to replace roads.

Encryption:

Horses stroll along the path charging over the innocent. Take charge. We must protect all those walking along these paths without their own horse. If we line the path, we can stop the horses and keep them regulated and guarantee they are qualified to stay on the path.

It will be peaceful. We will control and stopping the loud beasts and direct them to be as careful as possible. No more innocent lives should be taken at the hand of unruly horses or their belligerent owners.

Help Received:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/bangldesh-protests-us-ambassador-marcia-bernicat-car-attack-dhaka-students-violence-a8480226.html