Full Coverage: Bangladesh

29.07.2007 Ranglai Mro, a minority community leader from the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh, has been sentenced to 17 years in jail after protesting against the eviction of his people from their land to make way for an army training centre.

26.07.2007 The Community Radio movement in Bangladesh is likely to get a fillip after a high level meeting was organized by the Ministry of
Information to find out ways to launch community radio on a pilot
basis.

16.07.2007 Following the arrest of one of Bangladesh's two major political leaders, Mahfuz Anam urges the army-backed caretaker government not to jeopardise its reform process by underestimating the wisdom of the people.
From: Daily Star

16.07.2007 The leader of one of Bangladesh's two main parties, ex-premier Sheikh Hasina, has been sent to jail after a Dhaka court rejected her bail petition following her arrest in the early hours of the morning -- a move described by her son as a conspiracy in a bid to exclude her from politics.
From The Daily Star

11.07.2007 Poverty is decreasing in Bangladesh but disparities between rich-poor disparity is on the rise. So claims the Civil Society Progress Report on MDGs 2007 released by PeopleÂ’s Forum on MDGs (PFM), to mark the mid-point to the MDG deadline in 2015.

05.07.2007 To feed their family a healthy diet the world's poorest people are facing food costs that are more than three times their income, according to a new report, Running on Empty.
From: Politics.Co.Uk

05.07.2007 A recent study in Dhaka, Bangladesh says immunisation can prevent life-threatening pneumonia and meningitis cases caused by Hib. The researchers recommend the Hib vaccine for Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.