カテゴリー: Bangladesh
Predicted to make landfall on Sunday, preparations are under way for a partial evacuation of the camp in Cox’s BazarThe plight of Myanmar’s Rohingya explained in 30 secondsTropical cyclone Mocha intensified to become “very dangerous”, the World Meteoro…
The Urdu-speaking ethnic group was stateless for many years after the partition of India – and even now remain marginalised, living in cramped settlement camps and struggling to find formal workOn his first day at high school, Khalid Hussain was accuse…
‘Plinth’ settlements built on raised ground above the country’s flooding rivers are providing permanent homes and emergency refugesHamida Khatun is sick of moving. The 60-year has been displaced about 20 times during her life, always as a result of cli…
Even stories on cost of living leave journalists facing assault, threats and arrest under Digital Security ActFour weeks ago, a reporter in Bangladesh was hauled from his office, badly beaten – and then thrown from the roof of his building, leaving him…
A decade after Bangladesh’s worst garment-industry disaster, injury and ill health plagues those that escapedThe 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. …
Company says its own code of conduct goes further than the global accord prompted by the Rana Plaza disaster 10 years agoGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastMajor clothing retailer Best&Less has been accused of …
Campaigners say safety has improved but brands need to do more for workers’ rights and pay as survivors recount tragedy The fight for safe conditions and fair pay in Bangladesh has not yet been won, campaigners are warning on the 10th anniversary of th…
A group of Bangladesh’s health workers are working to reach women in some of the country’s most isolated places, to fight back against stigma of cervical cancer The health workers arrive on a wooden cart, hijabs blowing in the wind, as they are pulled …
Despite the WHO declaring it eliminated in 1998, thousands of tea pickers have caught the diseaseAloka 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 …
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. N…
Bongo Bazar and three adjacent markets said to be gutted, as 11 people reported injuredHundreds of Bangladeshi firefighters have battled an inferno that raged through a popular clothing market in the capital, Dhaka, and covered the city’s oldest neighb…
In 1971, the Pakistan army began a brutal crackdown against Bengalis in which hundreds of thousands of women were detained and repeatedly brutalised. Only now are their stories beginning to be told• Warning: graphic information in this report may upse…
From Bogotá to Dhaka, women are likely to shoulder the bulk of chores and childcare. Six women talk about their duties and the challenge of shifting the burden now and for the next generationSome days, Abha Kujur, 39, feels like the family “servant”. T…
Shamsuzzaman Shams was taken from his home at 4am and accused of spreading ‘false news’ over article about cost of living crisisBangladesh police on Wednesday charged a reporter from a leading newspaper with producing “false news”, stoking fears about …
More than five years after hundreds of thousands fled Myanmar, conditions in Bangladesh are deterioratingThe hungry and desperate are now much more so. Last month, the rations to Rohingya living in the world’s largest refugee camp – Cox’s Bazar, Bangla…