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Bangladesh

First Person: “Engage with us to find a durable solution”

“We do not know how we can ever return to our homes. We are neither safe in the refugee camps nor in Arakan ....

OWSA Contributor - 5 July 2022

Accountability

Bangladesh Flood Victims Cry for Relief

Authorities claim that the flood situation is getting back normal. But voluntary organisations complain that the pace of relief distribution has been slow despite...

Inter Press Service - 29 June 2022

Accountability

Jobs Will Not Empower Young Women Until We Address Sexual Harassment

Local authorities are often men who often dismiss their cases, blame the women, or telling them to be ‘forgiving’. Young women and their families...

Inter Press Service - 29 June 2022

Air

Dirty Air ‘Cuts South Asia Life Expectancy by Five Years’

Bangladesh emerges as the world’s most polluted country according to the Air Quality Life Index (AQLI) released by the University of Chicago’s Energy Policy Institute....

SciDevNet - 17 June 2022

Bangladesh

What’s wrong with Bangladesh’s rivers?

The priorities of the government of Bangladesh have gone into fighting disasters, most of them hydrological in nature. Sustaining rivers and their ecosystem has...

OWSA Contributor - 13 June 2022

Accountability

Inflation Will Be SouthAsia’s Sore Point in FY 2022, says World Bank Global Economic Prospects Report

In the face of global stagflation, growth in SouthAsia is forecast to slow down to 6.8 and 5.8 per cent in 2022 and 2023,...

OWSA Staff - 8 June 2022

Bangladesh

South Asia ‘Sorely Needs Transboundary River Accord’

Countries around the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna basin are losing over US$14.2 billion yearly because of a lack cooperation. One major hurdle is China’s apathy to multilateral...

SciDevNet - 2 June 2022

Bangladesh

“I Forget a Lot of Things While I’m Studying”: Lead Poisoning Wreaks Havoc On Children’s Lives

Facing irreparable damage to their health and development, up to 35 million children in Bangladesh have too high levels of lead in their blood,...

OWSA Contributor - 30 May 2022

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