BSS-38 Priority to women, children in disaster management stressed

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WOMEN-DISASTER-PREPARATION

Priority to women, children in disaster management stressed

DHAKA, Jan 30, 2019 (BSS) – Secretary of Women and Children Affairs
Ministry Kamrun Nahar today emphasized on giving priority to women and
children in disaster management as both of them fall victims of natural
calamities.

She said this while addressing a dissemination workshop on ‘National
Resilience Programme’ being implemented by Women Affairs Department with the
finance from UN Women, said an official release.

Women Affairs Department acting Director General Md Ataur Rahman presided
over the workshop addressed, among others, by Programme Specialist of UN
Women Bangladesh Dilruba Sarder and Secretary of Disaster Management and
Relief Ministry Md Mohsin.

Bangladesh’s achievement in attaining capacity to face natural calamities
has emerged an exemplary instance in the world, Kamrun Nahar said, adding
that the developed countries want to apply “Our experience” in their
countries in dealing with natural calamities.

BSS/PR/SAH/RY/1945 hrs