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Income disparity despite economic success

Bangladesh has made great strides in expanding economic growth, extending life expectancy and cutting extreme poverty and illiteracy, yet experts warn that income disparity remains a key problem requiring urgent attention. For a first-time visitor to Dhaka, it’s hard to escape the sight of shiny imported cars jockeying for space with buses, trucks, three wheelers and other vehicles that clog the streets of the Bangladeshi capital. [caption id="attachment_19244" align="alignright" width="622"]farmers Bangladeshi farmers harvest rice on the outskirts of Dhaka, Ma...

RMG to employ autistic people

Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) has agreed to help in recruiting autistic youth in the country’s ready-made garment sector, according to newspaper reports. “Like others, autistic people also should have a better and respectable life. To achieve this, BGMEA wants to help them get jobs in the RMG sector and provide related training,” BGMEA President Atiqul Islam said at an event to highlight the cause of autistic people. rmgbdHe sought cooperation from garment manufacturers in the matter, which could only add more glory t...

Christians demand justice for child killings

Several hundred Christians rallied and formed a human chain in Dhaka on Aug. 20 to demand justice for four recent mob killings of children that have outraged many across Bangladesh. Protesters prayed for eternal peace for the dead children. They also said the government has not taken enough action to punish perpetrators and protect vulnerable children. “There are laws to protect children, but they are not applied,” Father Albert Thomas Rozario, secretary of the Catholic Bishops’ Justice and Peace Commission, said during the christains BDd...

Qatar Charity provides water in Bangladesh

Qatar Charity (QC) has reached out to Bangladesh which is caught in the grip of a drought. QC started a project in Nouga, which has suffered a shortage of drinking and irrigation water and other basic services, resulting from a drought in the region. The project is wide-ranging in the facilities it is offering. It comprises 12 water units with networks for the people and lands, a health centre with outpatient clinics, inpatient beds and laboratories and a school for children, at a cost of over QAR2m. People collect water at a refugee camp for Muslims ... </div><!-- .entry-content --> </article><!-- #post-## --> <div class=

Govt plans census for undocumented Rohingya

Bangladesh is to hold a census of hundreds of thousands of undocumented Rohingya who have crossed into the country seeking refuge from persecution in neighbouring Myanmar. Foreign Secretary Shahidul Haque said the government had earmarked $2.7 million for the census to be carried out in Bangladesh’s southeast, near the border with Myanmar’s Rakhine state, reports AFP. rohingya-childrenOfficial estimates have put the number of undocumented Rohingya in Bangladesh at between 200,000 and 500,000, in addition to around 32,000 registere...

RFK Human Rights Center condemns police statements

Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights condemns the recent statements by the Bangladeshi police against human rights organizations Odhikar and the Bangladesh Human Rights Commission (BAMAK) for their denunciation of abuses committed by the police, says a press release of the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC). In a published press statement this week, the Bangladeshi police characterized statements the two organizations made on extrajudicial executions committed by the police force as “subversive campaigns.” Further, the police accused Odhikar and BAMAK of “challenging the rule of law and the judicial system” and committing defamation and other criminal acts for characterizing the police actions as extrajudicial killings, says the release.