- Bangladesh, Climate crisis, Drought, Environment, Extreme weather, Flooding, Global development, Rivers, South and Central Asia, Water, World news
Why Bangladesh is running out of options in the face of extreme weather
The south Asian country is a world leader in climate adaptation, but without more funding the country will str…
- Bangladesh, Climate crisis, Environment, Extreme weather, Global development, Global health, Health, Insects, Society, South and Central Asia, World news
Bangladesh’s worst dengue epidemic on record puts hospitals under strain
Mosquito-borne disease once largely limited to Dhaka spreads countrywide as climate change fuels fivefold incr…
- Bangladesh, Fashion, Fashion industry, Garment workers, Global development, Life and style, Poverty, Social exclusion, Society, South and Central Asia, Women, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
Woman making Christmas jumpers for UK turns to sex work to pay bills
Story of garment worker’s ordeal in Bangladesh, where she works in a factory producing clothes for brands incl…
- Access to water, Bangladesh, Cities, Cities and development, Climate crisis, Environment, Extreme heat, Extreme weather, Global development, South and Central Asia, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
‘Only the rich can bear this heat’: how Dhaka is battling extreme weather
As high temperatures hit the poor hardest, climate change may undo years of development gains, says Asia’s fir…
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‘A nightmare I couldn’t wake up from’: half of Rana Plaza survivors unable to work 10 years after disaster
A decade after Bangladesh’s worst garment-industry disaster, injury and ill health plagues those that escapedT…
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‘We lay like corpses. Then the raping began’: 52 years on, Bangladesh’s rape camp survivors speak out
In 1971, the Pakistan army began a brutal crackdown against Bengalis in which hundreds of thousands of women w…