Full Coverage: Bangladesh
November 2003
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The aim of this Guide is to provide a brief introduction to human rights and sustainable development issues in Bangladesh
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28.11.2003
A Bangladesh development organisation holds round-the-year workshops on international advances in family health and social communication.
From: Bangladesh Center for Communication Programs Related topics/regions: [Health] [Communication] |
26.11.2003
Members of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, which is the ruling party in Bangladesh, have prevented the distribution of Bengali newspaper Janakantha and threatened a journalist.
From: Reporter Senza Frontiere |
25.11.2003
While the US has threatened to cancel trade concessions to Bangladesh if it doesn't allow workers to form labor unions at its export processing zones (EPZs) by January, foreign investors in these zones say they will pull out if such activity is sanctioned.
Story linkFrom: OneWorld South Asia Related topics/regions: [South Asia] [International cooperation] [Labour] [Business] [Trade] |
21.11.2003
Some 300,000 Pakistanis, locally referred to as Biharis, living in 66 makeshift slums in Bangladesh for over three decades, are battling to establish their rights as Bangladesh citizens, after being virtually disowned by Pakistan.
Story linkFrom: OneWorld South Asia Related topics/regions: [South Asia] [Migration] [Refugees] [Human rights] |
17.11.2003
As rampant illegal trading critically endangers over 80 species of local and migratory birds in Bangladesh, many of which are threatened worldwide, the government has launched a massive drive against poachers.
Story linkFrom: OneWorld South Asia Related topics/regions: [South Asia] [Trade] [Environment] [Animals] [Conservation] |
14.11.2003
After years of keeping it on hold, Bangladesh has legalised Internet telephony, ringing in an era of cheap communications which could help it grab a slice of the rapidly growing telecom business in the Asia-Pacific. But the common man is the major gainer. The decision is likely to lower international call rates by 60-70 per cent while it will boost the country's promising IT sector and create huge job opportunities, say Internet service providers (ISPs).
Read moreRelated topics/regions: [Communication] [ICT] [Internet] |
13.11.2003
Curriculum has a crucial role to play in the success of any education programme. Bangladesh NGO, BRAC, has taken care to tailor its curriculum to suit the needs of rural children. Most recently, it has been adjusted to cater to the needs of urban children too. And the results are encouraging.
Story linkFrom: BRAC Related topics/regions: [Development] [Children] [Education] [Population] [Poverty] Image: A BRAC school in Bangaldesh © Canadian International Development Agency
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13.11.2003
The `Baby Class’ started by Bangladesh development organisation BRAC has been one of its most interesting interventions as adolescent teachers teach pre-primary school children.
From: BRAC Related topics/regions: [Children] [Education] Image: A BRAC school in Bangaldesh © Canadian International Development Agency
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12.11.2003
After years of keeping it on hold, Bangladesh legalized Internet telephony Monday, ringing in an era of cheap communications which could help it grab a slice of the rapidly growing telecom business in the Asia-Pacific.
Story linkFrom: OneWorld South Asia Related topics/regions: [South Asia] [Capacity building] [Business] [Communication] [ICT] |
10.11.2003
Muhammad Yunus, the founder and manager of Grameen Bank, says the future of the world lies in the hands of market-based social entrepreneurs, who can create profitable enterprises that are devoted to fighting poverty.
From: Changemakers.net Related topics/regions: [Poverty] [Business] [Microcredit] |
06.11.2003
Extreme climate conditions, including parching drought and floods, have left millions in northern Bangladesh on the verge of starvation, and government programs to alleviate hunger have been too little too late.
Story linkFrom: OneWorld South Asia Related topics/regions: [Agriculture] [Food] [Climate change] |
06.11.2003
One of the region's severest droughts coupled with a 400 per cent increase in prices of essentials, has left over two million people in north-western Bangladesh battling for survival: many subsisting on boiled weeds or banana leaves.
Story linkFrom: OneWorld South Asia Related topics/regions: [South Asia] [Agriculture] [Aid] [Emergency relief] |
04.11.2003
The Bangladesh government and environmentalists have launched a drive to clean the dying Buriganga river near the capital, Dhaka: regarded as the city's lifeline and a major tourist attraction.
Story linkFrom: OneWorld South Asia Related topics/regions: [South Asia] [Conservation] [Environmental activism] [Pollution] [Rivers] |
01.11.2003
Aveva inondato gran parte delle loro terre in seguito alla costuzione di una grande centrale idroelettrica. Ora l'azienda responsabile per l'impianto ha sospeso i risarcimenti. In Bangladesh continuano le occupazioni da parte di coloni dei terreni delle popolazioni indigene dell'est del Paese. Segnale in controtendenza quello invece dato dal Parlamento europeo, che si mette almeno formalmente al fianco dei popoli indigeni dell'Africa.
Story linkFrom: Survival International Related topics/regions: [Africa] [Brazil] [Indigenous rights] [Law] |
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