Humanitarian Crisis Management Programme (HCMP) of BRAC has launched hotline service for beneficiaries, volunteers and the employees working under the HCMP for their protection.
Any employee, beneficiary, volunteer working under the HCMP can lodge their complaint by dialing to the number—01810002828—if they are victimized. Their identity, however, would be kept secret.
Females would get priority. Host community women in Cox’s Bazar and women among Rohingya community (under the HCMP) can file allegation to the number if they are victim of sexual harassment.
The hotline number was launched formally at an event organized at BRAC Learning Centre in Cox’s Bazar on Monday evening on the occasion of International Women’s Day 2021.
Hasina Akhter Huq, Area Director of HCMP of BRAC; Roberts Sila Muthini, acting head of HCMP; Md. Shah Alam, head of Site Management and others were present.
In her speech, Hasina Akhter Huq said the protection is not a matter of females, it is also a matter of males. So anyone regardless of gender can lodge their complaint if they are victim of sexual harassment, she said.
Under its HCMP, BRAC provided gender-based counseling, medical, legal and financial supports to 39,599 women in Cox’s Bazar so far.
