CORR – The Jute Works ( CJW ), an association of Caritas Bangladesh, organizes workshops and training courses to promote the empowerment of women. Since 1973 nearly 5 thousand women have benefited from this. The testimony of Haricha Begum, 38, and Margaret Peris , 57. Craft workshops and training courses for women, to teach them a trade and make them economically and socially independent. This is the spirit that animates CORR -The Jute Works (CJW), an association of Caritas Bangladesh which since its creation - in 1973 - has transformed thousands of girls and mothers in workers able to maintain their families. The products range from furniture to bags, shoes , games, cards, candles and more. Most of these works are made of jute.
Bangladesh’s failure to implement laws intended to protect whistleblowers and guarantee its citizens’ right to information has allowed corruption to flourish in the country. This the conclusion reached in a new report by Transparency International, an NGO that monitors and reports on corporate and political corruption.
Despite having a strong Right to Information law, 88 percent of requesters reported having to visit the information provider’s office numerous times, 29 percent reported facing harassment, 26 percent faced difficulties finding the responsible...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday called up the BJP’s prime-minister elect Narendra Modi to congratulate him even as the new government he is set to lead may find it difficult to meet Dhaka’s key expectations.
Hours after the call, the BJP reaffirmed its stand of opposing the deal the two countries’ governments had inked during outgoing Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to Bangladesh in September 2011.
Hasina and her Awami League government have been upset over the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government’s failure...
Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury hoped for a quick resolution of outstanding issues like the Teesta river and land boundary agreements with the new government in India while stressing the need for further cementing bilateral ties for mutual benefit.
“I congratulate the newly elected leadership in India. A shared history and common heritage consolidated our ties over time,” Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury said while addressing a meeting of the Bangladesh-India Friendship Society at Dhaka University on Saturday.
She said that a bill was pending...
The apex court in the country has admitted a five-year-old petition seeking repatriation of around 300,000 “stranded Pakistanis” — mostly Biharis based in former East Pakistan when it seceded from Pakistan to become independent Bangladesh but never made it to Pakistan because of financial constraints, hence remaining stranded in a country that refuses to own them and largely forgotten by a country they opted for.
Court sources said yesterday Chief Justice of Pakistan Tassaduq Jilani has fixed the petition filed by the Stranded Pakistanis Gen...
prosperity and Bangladesh was India’s largest trading partner in SAARC. He also appreciated the cooperation extended by Bangladesh to India in all areas of mutual cooperation including security, ...
