Bangladesh
High hopes for tuberculosis in Bangladesh
Sunday, April 10th, 2011Reader’s Digest January 2011 High hopes for tuberculosis in Bangladesh PDF
Community involvement key to disaster preparedness
Thursday, November 18th, 2010DHAKA, 18 November 2010 (IRIN) – Working in one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world, Bangladeshi aid groups have learned that well-intentioned disaster relief programmes without community participation do little to protect those communities in the long run.
“Communities have been living with disasters for much longer than we have been talking about disaster [...]
Rohingya youth hunger for education
Wednesday, November 10th, 2010KUTUPALONG, 10 November 2010 (IRIN) – Ask any one of the 18,000 Rohingya youth at two government-run refugee camps in Bangladesh what they want most, the answer is unequivocally the same: education.
“Our future is blind without education,” said Sayed Alam, a lifelong resident of Kutupalong camp, one of two official camps set up to house [...]
Decades-old water dispute could destroy nation’s agriculture
Tuesday, September 21st, 2010DHAKA, 20 September 2010 (IRIN) – Ongoing wrangling over vital waterways that pass through China and India – the two most populous countries in the world – could lead to agricultural devastation further downstream in Bangladesh, experts warn.
The Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna rivers – together one of the largest freshwater flows in the world – [...]
Population pressure, climate change drive search for new rice varieties
Monday, September 6th, 2010NAOGAON, 6 September 2010 (IRIN) – Like many farmers in Bangladesh, Abdul Aziz from Naogaon District in northwestern Bangladesh has had to adapt his plantings to increasingly erratic weather: “Twenty years ago we had a rainy season at this time. Now we don’t even know when the seasons come…Twenty years ago we experienced five months [...]
Bangladesh Leads Way With International Crimes Tribunal
Sunday, September 5th, 2010The Irrawaddy
By MATT CROOK
SEPTEMBER 4, 2010
DHAKA—As criticism over the lack of progress in Sri Lanka’s war inquiry is mounting and a defiant military regime in Burma resists increasing pressure for a UN war crimes inquiry, Bangladesh has high hopes for a war crimes tribunal that has been 40 years in the making.
Bringing to justice key [...]
Taking toxins out of ship-breaking
Sunday, September 5th, 2010DHAKA, 3 September 2010 (IRIN) – A Dutch engineering company is trying to make safer the dangerous job of dismantling old ships contaminated with chemicals – by building the world’s first “green dock wharf” in Bangladesh.
Bangladesh has long been a final destination for decommissioned ships from around the world. Their scrap metal is valuable, but [...]
Killing women in the name of religion
Friday, August 13th, 2010DHAKA, 13 August 2010 (IRIN) – Nearly two decades after a peasant woman’s suicide first raised national awareness about the danger of religious rulings, and one month after a high court outlawed deadly edicts, killings of women in the name of religion continue in Bangladesh, human rights groups say.
Seventeen years ago, Nurjahan Begum, a peasant [...]
Millions of Bangladeshis poisoned by arsenic-laced water
Friday, June 25th, 2010BANGKOK, 25 June 2010 (IRIN) – A fifth of all deaths in Bangladesh are linked to drinking water contaminated by arsenic, while up to 77 million people – half the population – have been chronically exposed to the poisonous metalloid, according to a new study published in the Lancet medical journal.
Researchers tracked 12,000 people over [...]
Getting ready for the big one
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010BANGKOK, 15 June 2010 (IRIN) – The densely populated Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka, which lies dangerously close to a major fault line, comprises thousands of shoddily engineered buildings at risk of collapse in a powerful earthquake, experts warn.
Almost 80,000 buildings would be destroyed if a six magnitude tremor originated beneath Dhaka, according to a government [...]