{"id":93415,"date":"2018-06-29T11:51:53","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T11:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=a78436ed2f893466793aed82682179b0"},"modified":"2018-06-29T11:51:53","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T11:51:53","slug":"press-release-foreign-office-minister-and-special-envoy-for-gender-equality-visit-bangladesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=93415","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Foreign Office Minister and Special Envoy for Gender Equality visit Bangladesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Following World Refugee Day on 20 June, and with the monsoon season just beginning, the UK is calling on the international community to step up support for the refugees and their host communities. The UK is leading the way with \u00a3129 million of aid already given.<\/p>\n<p>With the gender aspects of the humanitarian crisis often overlooked, Joanna Roper will visit a women\u2019s safe spaces in the refugee camp at Cox\u2019s Bazar and meet refugees, humanitarian workers, and civil society leaders to understand the needs of women and girls caught up in the crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Field and Joanna Roper will also meet senior ministers to discuss the crisis as well as girls\u2019 and women\u2019s education in Bangladesh more widely.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the visit, Minister of State for Asia and the Pacific, the Rt Hon Mark Field MP, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Bangladesh is dealing with a major humanitarian crisis not of its making and it is vital the international community works with Bangladesh to step up support for the refugees and their host communities, especially during this monsoon season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">We are incredibly grateful to Bangladesh and to Prime Minister Hasina for welcoming over one million Rohingya refugees and I am looking forward to seeing how UK aid is helping improve their lives.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>UK Special Envoy for Gender Equality, Joanna Roper, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">The UK is determined to be a world leader in advocating for gender equality internationally and it is all too often women and girls who are the greatest victims in a humanitarian crisis like this \u2013 whether as a result of sexual violence, or loss of access to education, and they must not be ignored.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 id=\"further-information\">Further Information<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Follow Foreign Office Minister Mark Field on Twitter <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarkFieldUK\">@MarkFieldUK<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>Follow UK Special Envoy for Gender Equality Joanna Roper on Twitter <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoannaRoperFCO\">@JoannaRoperFCO<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>Follow the Foreign Office on Twitter <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/foreignoffice\">@foreignoffice<\/a> and <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/foreignoffice?ref=hl\">Facebook<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>Follow the Foreign Office on <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ukforeignoffice\/\">Instagram<\/a>,<br \/>\n<a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/ukforeignoffice\">YouTube<\/a><br \/>\nand <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/foreign-and-commonwealth-office?trk=biz-companies-cym\">LinkedIn<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister for Asia and the Pacific Mark Field and Special Envoy Joanna Roper are in Dhaka to discuss the Rohingya crisis and girls\u2019 education in Bangladesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93415"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}