Dr. Asha-Rose MigiroThe Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations, Dr Asha-Rose Migiro, is to
travel to Haiti on Sunday to assess conditions in camps for people displaced by the January earthquake, including sexual violence against women, according to UN spokesperson, Farhan Haq.
The Tanzanian former Foreign Minister is to spend Sunday night in one of the camps for Haitians displaced since the devastating 12 January quake and meet with residents and police "to assess efforts to protect the people from sexual violence and related problems”, Haq said.
She is also scheduled to meet with President Rene Garcia Preval and other senior Government officials during her stay.
Meanwhile, relief organizations working with United Nations peacekeepers in Haiti are preparing to relocate some 7,500 earthquake survivors at risk of potential flooding in a camp above Port-au-Prince, the capital.
People living in dangerous areas at the Petionville Club settlement were presented with voluntary relocation options and when those are not possible, relocation will be facilitated to a new site at Corail Cesselesse, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said. Relocation to this site will start tomorrow and is expected to take several days.
The new site will include health care and food distribution services as well as
specialized services for children, such as a learning area provided by the UN
Children Fund (UNICEF).
The quake killed more than 200,000 people and left one third of the country’s 9
million people in need of aid, with scores of thousands sheltering in camps where they live in difficult conditions.
travel to Haiti on Sunday to assess conditions in camps for people displaced by the January earthquake, including sexual violence against women, according to UN spokesperson, Farhan Haq.
The Tanzanian former Foreign Minister is to spend Sunday night in one of the camps for Haitians displaced since the devastating 12 January quake and meet with residents and police "to assess efforts to protect the people from sexual violence and related problems”, Haq said.
She is also scheduled to meet with President Rene Garcia Preval and other senior Government officials during her stay.
Meanwhile, relief organizations working with United Nations peacekeepers in Haiti are preparing to relocate some 7,500 earthquake survivors at risk of potential flooding in a camp above Port-au-Prince, the capital.
People living in dangerous areas at the Petionville Club settlement were presented with voluntary relocation options and when those are not possible, relocation will be facilitated to a new site at Corail Cesselesse, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said. Relocation to this site will start tomorrow and is expected to take several days.
The new site will include health care and food distribution services as well as
specialized services for children, such as a learning area provided by the UN
Children Fund (UNICEF).
The quake killed more than 200,000 people and left one third of the country’s 9
million people in need of aid, with scores of thousands sheltering in camps where they live in difficult conditions.
Kitu kilichowahi kunishangaza kuhusu huyu mama ni pale alipokwenda Tanzania kibinafsi(on vacation) ali hold press conference. Cha ajabu ni kuwa, alikuwa kwenye safari ambayo haikuwa ya kikazi, kwa nini alikutana na waandishi? Kama kiongozi wa taasisi yoyote ile, unapokuwa kwenye safari binafsi hutakiwi kukutana na waandishi, kwa sababu hauko pale on official business. Yote hayo ni mbwembwe zake tu. It didn't make any sense at all.
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