Staff Correspondent: Dhaka, Jan-25,

A month-long photo and video exhibition titled “Humanitarian Principles. Here and Now” began today at the city’s Liberation War Museum.

Swiss Embassy in Bangladesh, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and Liberation War Museum of Bangladesh, in collaboration with Photo Elys‚e Museum of Lausanne jointly organized the exhibition with the objective to give people a better understanding and a deeper insight into the significance of humanitarian principles,

Foreign Minister Dr A K Abdul Momen inaugurated the exhibition while State Minister for Disaster Management and Relief Dr Md Enamur Rahman attended the ceremony as a special guest, a press release said.

Highlighting the importance of Humanitarian Principles, Momen said actions should be taken so that people around the world are not uprooted either due to war or climate change.

Swiss ambassador to Bangladesh Nathalie Chuard’s humanitarian principles are close to the heart of the Swiss people, and in the early 1970s, these quintessential values laid the foundation on which her country’s partnership with Bangladesh has developed.

“Today, we continue helping people affected by violence… in the Cox’s Bazar region, we support Bangladeshi communities living near the camp,” said ICRC’s Delegation Head in Bangladesh Katja Lorenz while recalling the ICRC’s involvement based on the humanitarian principles during the 1971 liberation War of Bangladesh.

In the exhibition, 10 original short films from the lenses of 10 Swiss photographers reflecting where they see humanitarian principles at play in their everyday lives are also shown, alongside six award-winning photographs,

said the release.

The exhibition will remain open for all from January 25 to February 24 from 10 am to 5 pm every day except Sundays, it added.

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