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Expert Perspective: Dr. Katy Long on World Refugee Day 2011

Expert Perspective: Dr. Katy Long on World Refugee Day 2011

World Refugee Day is officially observed on June 20th each year. This day honors the courage, strength and determination of women, men and children who are forced to flee their homeland under threat of persecution, conflict and violence, as well as the people who have dedicated their lives to helping them. This year Zunia interviews Dr Katy Long and she talk about different refugee issues. Zunia: The global theme for World Refugee Day 2011 is “1 refugee without hope is too many.” more...

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Moushumi Biswas to Expert Perspectives on June 19, 2011

Preventive and educative approaches for reducing corruption: an article by Zahid Hossain, Bangladesh (The Daily Star)

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"There is no denying the fact that widespread and pervasive corruption in government and public administration is now the number one problem of the country. It is also true that the recent trend of growing awareness amongst the people about corruption in government and public is beyond doubt a highly positive indication. In governance terms, corruption threatens democratic public institutions by permitting the influence of improper interest on the use of public resources and power, and by more...

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Tatiana Nikolskaya on January 15, 2004

Bangladesh: Acid Survivors Foundation

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It is widely recognized that women in Bangladesh are subjected to various forms of violence because existing gender relations invariably relegate them to a subordinate position in relevant socioeconomic, legal and cultural contexts. In Bangladesh, one particularly vicious and damaging form of violence is acid throwing. While acid violence is treated as a specific, isolatable human rights violation, it is part of a broader type of brutality and cruelty prevalent beyond Bangladesh. The more...

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Tamohar Islam, ... on January 19, 2004

World Press Freedom Day celebrated in Bangladesh

On 3rd May, 2005 Development Research Organization VOICE and Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC) organize a seminar entitled Independent Journalism: Media and Good Governance at National Press Club to observe the World Press Freedom Day in cooperation with UNESCO.

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AHM Bazlur Rahm... on May 4, 2005

Creating Safe Space and New Opportunities for Women Workers

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Most young women who work in Bangladesh's garment industry live in the urban slums mushrooming around the industrial areas of major cities. Local gangs control the housing, so the women become prey to slumlords who charge exorbitant rents, equal to about one-third the women's income. Mashuda Shefali Khatun, a dedicated activist for women's rights, is pioneering a solution to their plight by creating the first low-cost, safe, decent hostels for working women in Dhaka City. Beyond housing, more...

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Moushumi Biswas on September 18, 2008

WHISPERS TO VOICES: Gender and Social Transformation in Bangladesh

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'Several recent reports have highlighted the dramatic improvements in education - especially girls’ secondary education - in fertility, mortality, immunization, water and sanitation, rural roads and micro-credit. This is despite low per capita incomes. Countries with similar levels of per capita income have much worse outcomes and Bangladesh emerges as a positive outlier. We add to this list of paradoxes. One of these for instance, has to do with age at marriage. Low age at marriage in more...

Added by Zunia.org on September 29, 2008

Shanta, Ruxana & Hasmuna’s story - Bangladesh

Shanta, Hasmuna and their friend Ruxana have “saved” their neighbour Saleha from early marriage. The three friends met at the Adolescent Girls' Club in Chandina, southern Bangladesh, and started visiting the houses of neighbours who wanted their daughters to marry at the age of 14 or even before. Shanta and Hasmuna themselves are 16; Ruxana is 17. At the Girls’ Club Shanta and her friends learn about their rights, and through different projects and activities, develop skills to help them more...

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Anuradha Bhatta... on February 3, 2009

Intimate partner violence among couples in 10 DHS countries: predictors and health outcomes.

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The goals of this study are threefold: 1) To report the prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV) among currently married or cohabiting women in 10 developing countries; 2) To identify key characteristics in each country, including couple characteristics, associated with experiencing physical or sexual IPV; and 3) To describe the association between women's experience of IPV and selected reproductive, nutritional, and child health outcomes. This report analyzes data from 10 recent more...

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Kasem Ali on May 5, 2009

Ignoring Executions and Torture - Impunity for Bangladesh’s Security Forces

Ignoring Executions and Torture - Impunity for Bangladesh’s Security Forces

This 76-page report details the involvement of soldiers, paramilitary officers, and police in so-called "crossfire killings" and other custodial killings, torture, "disappearances," and arbitrary arrests. It examines a number of cases that have received national and international attention, in which those responsible have not been prosecuted. Facing constant threats, harassment, and even physical abuse, victims and family members have often been forced to abandon their efforts to seek justice, more...

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Sonia Hossain on July 12, 2009

'Life Is Not Ours' Land And Human Rights In The Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh

'Life Is Not Ours' Land And Human Rights In The Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh

Human rights violations constitute the fundamental factor of the structural violence, which is taking place in the Hill Tracts. Each chapter of this report deals with one aspect of this process of oppression, which weighs primarily on the hill peoples of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) but also on many of the Bengali settlers.

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Kasem Ali on July 23, 2009

Stateless and Starving: Persecuted Rohingya Flee Burma and Starve in Bangladesh

Stateless and Starving: Persecuted Rohingya Flee Burma and Starve in Bangladesh

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In recent months Bangladeshi authorities have waged an unprecedented campaign of arbitrary arrest, illegal expulsion, and forced internment against Burmese refugees. In this emergency report Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) presents new data and documents dire conditions for these persecuted Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. PHR's medical investigators warn that critical levels of acute malnutrition and a surging camp population without access to food aid will cause more deaths from starvation more...

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Moushumi Biswas on March 10, 2010

Chancery Law Chronicles- First Bangladesh Online Case Law Database

You will be happy and proud to know that my office, Chancery Research and Consultants (CRC-Trust), a socio-legal research organisation has developed the first ever searchable inter-active Bangladeshi online case law database (www.clcbd.org). This is a unique and innovative initiative in the legal history of Bangladesh. Due care has been taken so that this Website benefits people from all strata including judges, lawyers, researchers, academics, law enforcement agencies, journalists, human more...

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Md. Karim on March 10, 2010

No Man's Land: Rohingya Trying to Survive in Bangladesh

No Man's Land: Rohingya Trying to Survive in Bangladesh

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For decades, thousands of Rohingya, an ethnic and religious minority from Myanmar, have sought refuge in Bangladesh. Today, despite the well-known situation in their country of origin, just 28,000 of these are recognized as prima facie refugees by the Government of Bangladesh, and live in official camps under the supervision of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). In sharp contrast, an estimated 220,000 others struggle to survive—unrecognized and largely more...

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Najmee Chowdhury on July 4, 2010

JOB: Project Co-ordinator – Bangladesh, Saferworld, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 25 August

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Project Co-ordinator – Bangladesh Saferworld Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh Last Date: August 25, 2010 TITLE: Project Co-ordinator – Bangladesh LOCATION: Dhaka, Bangladesh PURPOSE: Coordinate development and implementation of Saferworld’s strategies and programme of work on community security, small arms control and security and justice sector development in Bangladesh. REPORTING TO: Team Leader – Asia CONTRACT: 12 Months (renewable) KEY RELATIONSHIPS: Head of Asia more...

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Jessica Matthews on August 13, 2010

Making a Difference: Celebrating Children in Yellow!

Making a Difference: Celebrating Children in Yellow!

thedailystar.net –

On the occasion of Universal Children's Day, Jaago Foundation, a school for underprivileged children in Rayerbazaar, organised a daylong campaign on November 18, to create awareness about the day, which was never celebrated in Bangladesh earlier. Korvi Rakshand, the founder of Jaago Foundation says that besides the fact that the campaign was successful in making people think about the homeless children on the streets, it was also a lot of fun celebrating Children's Day in this unconventional more...

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Najmee Chowdhury on November 11, 2010

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