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2 years earlier, Thaslima Begum and Rosie Swash began investigating what occurred to babies quit for adoption in Bangladesh in the 1970s. A brand-new law enabled households worldwide to embrace Bangladeshi kids for the first time. As Thaslima and Rosie dug deeper, they discovered a system ripe for exploitation.In this episode, Thaslima travels ...
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UN staff state they have actually not been permitted to help countless Rohingya living in displacement camps in Myanmar who remain in immediate requirement of food, medicine and shelter in the consequences of Cyclone Mocha, which struck the west of the nation on Sunday.People living in Sittwe, the capital of Rakhine state, stated they approximated that about 90% of ...
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Major clothing merchant Best-& Less has actually been accused of putting business earnings ahead of the security of Bangladeshi garment workers by decreasing to sign a crucial worldwide accord on worker safety and labour rights.The Rana Plaza catastrophe, 10 years earlier on Monday, triggered outrage at the abysmal safety requirements in the Bangladesh factories ...
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2 years earlier, Thaslima Begum and Rosie Swash began investigating what took place to babies quit for adoption in Bangladesh in the 1970s. A new law enabled households worldwide to embrace Bangladeshi kids for the first time. As Thaslima and Rosie dug deeper, they discovered a system ripe for exploitation.In this episode, they meet a female ...
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Bangladesh shelters as Cyclone Mocha hits land & in pictures
Bangladesh shelters as Cyclone Mocha hits land & in picturesLocals gather in the shelter.Bangladesh shelters as Cyclone Mocha hits land & in picturesBangladesh shelters as Cyclone Mocha hits land & in picturesFamilies return home in the pouring rain.Bangladesh shelters as Cyclone Mocha hits land & in picturesBangladesh shelters as Cyclone Mocha hits land & in pictures
Bangladesh shelters as Cyclone Mocha hits land & in picturesThe winds begin to whip up ahead of the cyclone.Leaving the shelter after the cyclone has passed.Bangladesh shelters as Cyclone Mocha hits land & in pictures
Bangladesh shelters as Cyclone Mocha hits land & in picturesLooking for the damage left behind by Cyclone Mocha.
Bangladesh shelters as Cyclone Mocha hits land & in pictures
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The fight for safe conditions and fair pay in Bangladesh has not yet been won, campaigners are cautioning on the 10th anniversary of the most dangerous disaster in the garment industry's history.On 24 April 2013, 1,134 people were eliminated and at least another 2,000 hurt in the collapse of a factory building in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where clothing was being ...
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Jane Radika was looking for responses. Approaching 50, she had become reflective about life and yearned to know more about the situations of her adoption, from an orphanage in Bangladesh to a little Cornish town in England. I was only 5 weeks old when I concerned the UK, so I have no recollection of it. From what I have discovered, my mum offered b.
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A searing heatwave in parts of southern Asia in April was made at least 30 times more likely by climate breakdown, according to a study by international scientists.

Unusually high temperatures of up to 45C (113F) were recorded last month in monitoring stations in parts of India, Bangladesh, Thailand and Laos.

The heat caused deaths and widespread...

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The health employees get here on a wooden cart, hijabs blowing in the wind, as they are pulled along a dirt road by a horse. Sand swirls in the air as kids run behind, attempting to keep up. When the cart comes to a stop, the health workers climb out, holding large white boxes. We wish to reach as a number of the ladies here as possible, states Nagma Kha ...
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Bibi Hasenaar has had two lives. One began in November 1976, when she wasaboutfour, arriving in the Netherlands to meet her adoptive parents. “I remember it vividly. There’s a photo of us at the airport with other children arriving from Bangladesh – it was published in a Dutch paper.” Her older brother Babu was there, too.

Her other life appears...

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Cyclone Mocha brought strong winds and torrential rain to parts of Bangladesh and Myanmar on Sunday, with refugee camps bearing the brunt of the category-5 storm, leaving at least five dead and causing half a million people to be evacuated.

The region was rocked by sustained winds of more than 160mph as Mocha made landfall, whipping up gusts closer...

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Aloka Gonju didn’t take much notice of the discoloured patch of skin on her left hand until her fingers began to stiffen and hurt. It became a struggle to pick leaves at the tea plantation where she works in Bangladesh.

“I had no idea what was happening to me,” says the 47-year-old, whose wages support her husband, four children and three gra...

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Authorities fired teargas and rubber bullets at demonstrators gathered for the 2nd successive day in Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka. Opposition protesters arranged rallies blocking significant roads into Dhaka as they called for prime minister Sheikh Hasina to enable to a caretaker government ahead of elections next year. Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, the ...
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Tropical cyclone Mocha intensified to become “very dangerous”, the World Meteorological Organisation has said, warning of violent winds, floods and possible landslides in Bangladesh which could hit the world’s biggest refugee camp in Cox’s bazar.

Cyclone Mocha is predicted to make landfall on Sunday near the Bangladesh-Myanmar border, according to...

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Hundreds of firefighters have been battling a fire that tore through a crowded shopping complex in Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka. Images from the scene showed black smoke billowing from the burning complex as firefighters worked to extinguish the fire. No deaths have been reported, but shop owners and fire officials told reporters that the famous...

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Bangladesh police have actually fired rubber bullets and teargas to disperse stone-throwing crowds blockading primary roadways in the capital, Dhaka, in a demonstration demanding the prime minister's resignation.The opposition Bangladesh Nationalist celebration (BNP) and its allies have staged a series of demonstrations since in 2015 demanding that Sheikh Hasina step down and ...
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On his first day at high school, Khalid Hussain was accused of being the son of a war criminal. “A group of Bengali kids surrounded us and made it clear that we were not welcome. The incident still shocks me to this day,” says Hussain, who was 12 at the time. “But we just wanted to learn.”

It was not the last time Hussain, now a lawyer at the...

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Hundreds of Bangladeshi firefighters have battled an inferno that raged through a popular clothing market in the capital, Dhaka, and covered the city’s oldest neighbourhoods in black smoke.

No deaths have been reported, but shop owners and fire officials told reporters that the famous Bongo Bazar and three adjacent markets had been gutted in the...

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My pal Zafrullah Chowdhury, who has passed away aged 81, was a public health activist dedicated to making fundamental health care more available in rural Bangladesh. He established the community-based healthcare organisation Gonoshasthaya Kendra (GK), which supplies cost effective, top quality medical services to millions of people.After studying at Dhaka College, ...
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Around 10pm the night before this image was taken, Samsul, a watermelon farmer, had actually boarded his boat in Barishal, a district of Bangladesh. He 'd cruised through the night to Dhaka, mooring in the capital's Sadarghat port, on the Buriganga River.Around 5am, his trawler had actually taken its spot together with another, offering pumpkins, and the farmer turned ...
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It was the summer of 1971, and the remote murmurs of a war that began months earlier had actually made their way to Rajshahi in Bangladesh, across the north bank of the Padma River, to Noor Jahan's door. The 14-year-old was playing in the courtyard with her little sis when a loud military truck came to a stop outside the family's farmhouse.Armed ...
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Police in Bangladesh are examining the murder of a popular trade union leader who was fatally beaten while trying to settle a dispute between a garment factory owner and workers over unpaid wages.Shahidul Islam, 45, a leading labour organiser for the Bangladesh Garment and Industrial Workers Federation (BGIWF), was attacked on Sunday night in ...
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Hamida Khatun is sick of moving. The 60-year-old has been displaced about 20 times during her life, always as a result of climate disasters.“They seem to follow me wherever I go,” she says. But in 2019, the floods were the worst. “I thought at some point it would stop but it just kept rising and rising,” says Khatun. She saved herself from drownin...

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Some days, Abha Kujur, 39, feels like the family “servant”. The housework is unending at the tiny rented flat in New Delhi she shares with her husband and three children. Her son, Nitesh, 18, goes to college, and her daughters, Neha, 23, and Nisha, 20, work as apprentices, but Kujur’s daily grind is as busy as it ever was.

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For a Rohingya refugee, food rations are everything. We are not permitted to work. We are surrounded by a barbed-wire fence that stops us moving; goods are tough to bring in for trading and the couple of jobs there were have actually been lost.So food is the resource we depend on the most. Now provisions are being cut for the second time in a few months.Our reliance ...
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Four weeks ago, a reporter in Bangladesh was hauled from his office, badly beaten – and then thrown from the roof of his building, leaving him with fractures in his back, three broken ribs and a machete wound on his head.

The journalist, Ayub Meahzi, believes he was targeted for reporting on alleged local government ties to a criminal group.

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Bangladesh police on Wednesday charged a reporter from a leading newspaper with producing “false news”, stoking fears about media freedom, after an article about high food prices went viral.

Shamsuzzaman Shams was picked up from his home in the industrial town of Savar just outside Dhaka at about 4am by plainclothes police, according to his...

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Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are at risk of becoming “the new Palestinians”, according to a UN head, who said they are trapped in a protracted and increasingly neglected crisis.

Olivier De Schutter, UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, said the almost 1 million people living in overcrowded camps in Cox’s Bazar should be...

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The cracks on the walls started to appear two days earlier. But despite the warning signs, Moushumi Begum still came to work on 24 April 2013. Moments later, she was buried under heavy rubble. “It all happened so quickly. I vividly remember every detail about that day, even though it was 10 years ago,” says Begum, who spent three hours trapped und...

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An estimated 12,000 Rohingya have been left without shelter after a fire tore through part of a cramped refugee camp in southern Bangladesh on Sunday, destroying health centres, learning facilities and mosques.

The fire broke out at Camp 11 of Cox’s Bazar refugee camp, which is home to more than 1 million Rohingya refugees, including 700,000 who...

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