UN: Climate change threatens 19 million Bangladesh children
Posted April 04, 2019 7:00 am
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) - A new report by the United Nations children's agency says the lives and futures of more than 19 million Bangladeshi children are at risk from the colossal impacts of devastating floods, cyclones and other environmental disasters linked to climate change.
The UNICEF report released Friday said the tally includes Rohingya refugee children from Myanmar who are living in squalid camps in southern Bangladesh.
The report says that because of the impact of climate, hundreds of thousands of children have migrated to big cities from villages after their parents lost their livelihoods to flooding or river bank erosion.
The report documents children being forced into sex trafficking or marriage to survive.
FILE - In this June 1, 2016, file photo, a Bangladeshi boy walks out of a toilet at a slum in Dhaka, Bangladesh. A new report by the United Nations childrenâs agency on Friday, April 5, 2019, says the lives and futures of more than 19 million Bangladeshi children are at risk from colossal impacts of devastating floods, cyclones and other environmental disasters linked to climate change. (AP Photo/A.M. Ahad, File)
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FILE - In this Sept. 13, 2017, file photo, Rohingya Muslim girl Afeefa Bebi, who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh holds her few-hours-old brother as doctors check her mother Yasmeen Ara at a community hospital in Kutupalong refugee camp, Bangladesh. A new report by the United Nations childrenâs agency says the lives and futures of more than 19 million Bangladeshi children are at risk from colossal impacts of devastating floods, cyclones and other environmental disasters linked to climate change. The UNICEF report released Friday, April 5, 2019 said the tally includes Rohingya refugee children from Myanmar who are living in squalid camps in southern Bangladesh. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin, File)
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FILE- In this Oct. 18, 2017, file photo, Rohingya Muslim women, who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, stand holding their sick children after Bangladesh border guard soldiers refused to let them journey towards a hospital and turned them back towards the zero line border in Palong Khali, Bangladesh. A new report by the United Nations childrenâs agency says the lives and futures of more than 19 million Bangladeshi children are at risk from colossal impacts of devastating floods, cyclones and other environmental disasters linked to climate change. The UNICEF report released Friday, April 5, 2019, said the tally includes Rohingya refugee children from Myanmar who are living in squalid camps in southern Bangladesh. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin, File)
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FILE- In this Oct. 20, 2017, file photo, Rohingya Muslim girl Toyiba Khatun cries while fighting fever as she waits with her family to be registered which will then allow them to proceed to build a shelter in Kutupalong refugee camp, Bangladesh. A new report by the United Nations childrenâs agency says the lives and futures of more than 19 million Bangladeshi children are at risk from colossal impacts of devastating floods, cyclones and other environmental disasters linked to climate change. The UNICEF report released Friday, April 5, 2019, said the tally includes Rohingya refugee children from Myanmar who are living in squalid camps in southern Bangladesh. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin, File)
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