Full Coverage: Bangladesh

29.09.2006

Youth Network

With support from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Population Council researchers designed an operations research project to determine the feasibility of expanding male youthsÂ’ access to reproductive health information and condom services through their peers in Bangladesh.

28.09.2006 Meena Day 2006 was celebrated in Dhaka and around the country on Saturday September 23rd. The theme of Meena Day this year was: Chhele Meye bibhed nai, jonmo nibondhon shobar chai meaning 'Birth registration for all, be it a boy or girl' - to draw attention to the priority the Government of Bangladesh has attached to Universal Birth Registration by 2008.

28.09.2006 Encouraging development of women entrepreneurship especially in the small and medium enterprise (SME) sector has been accorded a prominent role in both the Industrial Policy of Bangladesh, as well as the SME Policy Strategies 2005. The Women Entrepreneurship Development Conference proved to be a step in the right direction, with one outcome being the decision to form a Women Entrepreneurship (WE) Forum which will act as a facilitator to remove the barriers in the development of women entrepreneurship throughout the country.

25.09.2006 Information and Communications Technology (ICT) mediated learning provides utilities for achieving goal of education for all, and in turn acts as an enabler in reducing the digital divide, plummeting poverty and promoting socio-economic empowerment.

05.09.2006 Amader Gram ICT for Development -- a non-government organisation (NGO), in collaboration with the International Breast Cancer Research Foundation (IBCRF) of Ohio State University, USA, is all set to launch an online service for the detection of breast cancer in Bagerhat district of Bangladesh from the second week of this month.

05.09.2006 Amnesty International wants the Bangladesh government to probe impartially and punish accused security men involved in the killings of five people who were protesting against setting up an open-cast mine by British firm Asia Energy Corporation.