Last month three-year-old Lima Akhter found a ball in the street in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Like any young child might, she picked it up to play.
But within moments the ball exploded in her tiny hand, blowing away all her fingers.
Tragically, Lima had mistaken an abandoned homemade bomb for a toy.
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For years Anowara Begum fretted about how frequent power outages in her tiny shack in the Baonia-Badh slum in Dhaka’s Mirpur suburb, interrupted her daily embroidery work, depriving her of crucial income that supports her two children and husband.
“It really hampered my work as I could not see properly the needle and thread due to the darkness,” Begum, 41, told Khabar South Asia, adding, “even my children could not do their homework in the evening”.
But things have improved ever since CHANGE, a Dhaka-based non-government organisation (NGO), installed botol bati (liter of light) at her home in April. “Now, we get ample light through the solar-powered bottle of light,” she said.
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Mainstreaming climate change into planning needs to be done at every level, not just in national plans, climate experts opined. The relevant ministries such as water management, agriculture, health and others need to mainstream climate change into their respective plans, they said.
They were speaking at a discussion to reveal a study titled ‘Review of BCCSAP-2009’ at Sonargaon Hotel on Friday evening. Oxfam in Bangladesh with the assistance of a Dhaka based climate change study group conducted the study.
The speakers in the discussion stressed mainstreaming the climate change adaptation in the development planning of the country to cope with the adverse impacts of global warming.
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Bangladesh has earned an “insignificant” progress in its fight against corruption in the current year, according to a survey report globally released yesterday by the Berlin-based NGO Transparency International.
Bangladesh ranked the 16
th most corrupt country in the world in the graft index, scored 27 points out of 100 this year, one point higher than the last year when it became 13
th.
Chairperson of the Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) trustee board, Sultana Kamal, however, termed it insignificant, as the country’s position still remains quite low.
Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), a civil society think tank of Bangladesh, will organise a dialogue on ‘Integrating Trade Issues in Post-2015 International Development Framework: Ongoing Debates and Potential Opportunities’ on Thursday (Dec 5) in Bali, Indonesia.
The CPD, as part of the Bali Trade and Development Symposium (TDS), will host the event on the sidelines of the ninth WTO Ministerial Conference to be held on December 3-6.
The theme of the event is ‘International Trade Governance and Sustainable Development’.
Building a sound government-NGO partnership in combating graft is a good practice in Bangladesh that can be replicated in many other countries, speakers observed at a function in Panama City.
The special event on Bangladesh organised on the sidelines of the 5
th Conference of State Parties (COSP-5) of the UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) being held this week, according to a Foreign Ministry release issued on Friday.
The event titled ‘Opportunities and Challenges in Government-Civil Society Eng...
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