UN issues travel alert for staff
Staff Correspondent
The United Nations Department of Safety and Security (UNDSS) yesterday issued a circular asking the staffs of 16 UN bodies and six UN-affiliated organisations not to travel outside Dhaka until further notice.The circular also asked the staffs to remain indoors during today's nationwide shutdown. Sources in the UN offices in Dhaka told The Daily Star yesterday that the latest circular came hard on the heel of suicide bomb attacks in Chittagong and Gazipur on Tuesday. The six UN-affiliated bodies where the circular was dispersed are: Asian Development Bank, International Organisation of Migration, Centre on Integrated Rural Development for Asia and the Pacific (CIRDAP), International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh (ICDDRB), International Jute Study Group and Partners in Population and Development. As resource persons will be unable to leave for Cox's Bazar because of the latest UNDSS caution, a two-day lawyers' training programme on refugee laws slated for December 2 and 3 under the joint aegis of UNHCR and Bangladesh Bar Council has been put on hold.
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