Full Coverage: Bangladesh

29.02.2008

25.02.2008 Local and international activists are calling on the military-backed interim government in Bangladesh to end the year-long state of emergency that is stifling political activity and rights.

22.02.2008

21.02.2008 Insufficient statistics and lack of a sound HIV/AIDS prevention policy are undermining BangladeshÂ’s efforts to protect people against its risks. It is necessary to break the barriers of social stigmas attached to the disease and promote condom use beyond family planning purposes, say health experts.

18.02.2008 Bangladesh success story, Angolan failure - a new "Wealth and Survival Index" names and shames countries by weighing child mortality against national wealth.

15.02.2008

15.02.2008 Evidence of torture, political repression, religious persecution, intimidation and eviction against the Jumma tribal peoples of Bangladesh has been presented by a group of prominent Bangladeshis.
From: Survival International

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11.02.2008 Even as the HIV virus occurrence rate remains low at below 1 percent in Bangladesh, the country needs to secure itself by building awareness, officials say. More often, people need support to fight the social stigma that goes with the virus in this largely conservative Muslim society.

04.02.2008 With global urban population expecting to rise to over five billion by 2025, there is a need to evolve sustainable urbanisation processes, says architect Dr. Nizamuddin Ahmed. In his vivid description of the city of Dhaka, he speaks of using architecture beyond the purely commercial to create better living environments.

01.02.2008 Tatulia is one of the many villages in Bangladesh where residents are forced to drink arsenic-contaminated water. A project implemented by the Department of Public Health Engineering along with UNICEF hopes to reach proper water and sanitation resources to 30 million people in the country.