SDG advocate Queen Mathilde visits Cox’s Bazar Rohingya camps

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UN Secretary-General’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) advocate Queen Mathilde visited

Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar district on Tuesday.

Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud, among others, accompanied the Belgian queen during her visit there.

She visited a learning center, participated in a session with women working on preventing gender-based violence, interacted with women learning new skills and joined a short briefing on the work on mental health and spoke with mental health volunteers.

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She is scheduled to return to Dhaka on Tuesday evening and join a dinner hosted by Parliament Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury.

The UN country team in Bangladesh on Monday warmly welcomed Queen Mathilde.

In the context of the Covid-19 pandemic which stalled and reversed development progress globally, and the subsequent Russia-Ukraine war that induced a cost-of-living crisis, this visit “highlights the heightened importance of the SDGs, and also showcases Bangladesh’s dynamism and commitment”, said the Office of the UN Resident Coordinator in Dhaka.