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Bangladesh's prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, has actually won office for a 5th term, in an election that was eclipsed by a ruthless crackdown on the opposition and low citizen turnout.The election commission revealed in the early hours of Monday that Hasina's judgment Awami League had actually won a 4th consecutive term, winning practically 75% of the seats. It w.
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When Masuma Akhtar came to the garment factory where she works on the outskirts of Dhaka on 31 October, she was expecting a normal shift. Instead, she was met brute violence. The minute I strolled through the factory gates, a group of armed guys began beating me with wood sticks, states Akhtar. I fell down on to the ground. Even then they w.
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2 years earlier, Thaslima Begum and Rosie Swash began investigating what occurred to babies quit for adoption in Bangladesh in the 1970s. A brand-new law enabled households worldwide to embrace Bangladeshi kids for the first time. As Thaslima and Rosie dug deeper, they discovered a system ripe for exploitation.In this episode, Thaslima travels ...
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Ballot booths have actually been set on fire in Bangladesh on the eve of general elections.On Friday 4 individuals, including two children, passed away in an obvious arson attack on a train in Bangladesh. Authorities said they had actually jailed seven individuals in connection with the incident.The fire on the traveler train, which raced through four coaches, was targeted at ...
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In Bangladesh, there disappears room left in the prisons. In the last two weeks alone, almost 10,000 opposition leaders, fans and activists have actually been apprehended after protests broke out versus the judgment federal government, led by the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina.Thousands of other political detainees have actually currently been inside these cells for months, ...
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2 years earlier, Thaslima Begum and Rosie Swash began investigating what took place to babies quit for adoption in Bangladesh in the 1970s. A new law enabled households worldwide to embrace Bangladeshi kids for the first time. As Thaslima and Rosie dug deeper, they discovered a system ripe for exploitation.In this episode, they meet a female ...
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Bangladesh votes on Sunday in an election guaranteed to offer prime minister sheikh Hasina her 5th term in office, after a boycott by opposition parties whose ranks have actually been annihilated by mass arrests.Hasina has presided over extraordinary economic development in a nation as soon as beset by grinding poverty, however her federal government has actually been accused of rampant ...
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A Bangladeshi woman was shot dead on Wednesday after police in Dhaka opened fire during a protest held by garment workers demanding higher wages.

Anjuara Khatun, a 26-year-old machine operator at Islam Garments in Gazipur, was on her way home after the factory closed suddenly as a large group of protesters gathered nearby.

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Jane Radika was looking for responses. Approaching 50, she had become reflective about life and yearned to know more about the situations of her adoption, from an orphanage in Bangladesh to a little Cornish town in England. I was only 5 weeks old when I concerned the UK, so I have no recollection of it. From what I have discovered, my mum offered b.
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At least 4 people have died in an obvious arson attack on a train in Bangladesh, contributing to stress before parliamentary elections on Sunday. The fire on Friday raced through four coaches in the guest train in what one authorities called an attack targeted at scaring people before the vote, though authorities did not immediately name any ...
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A Bangladeshi female was shot dead on Wednesday after cops in Dhaka opened fire throughout a demonstration held by garment employees demanding a wage increase. Anjuara Khatun, a 26-year-old machine operator at Islam Garments in Gazipur, was on her way home after the factory closed suddenly as a big group of protesters collected nearby.Her hubby told ...
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Bibi Hasenaar has had two lives. One began in November 1976, when she wasaboutfour, arriving in the Netherlands to meet her adoptive parents. “I remember it vividly. There’s a photo of us at the airport with other children arriving from Bangladesh – it was published in a Dutch paper.” Her older brother Babu was there, too.

Her other life appears...

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An opposition boycott looks set to usher prime minister Sheikh Hasina to a fourth straight term in the Bangladesh election this weekend.

The election has been described as a “sham” designed to cement Hasina’s rule by exiled opposition leader Tarique Rahman.

Rahman’s party staged a months-long protest campaign in 2023 demanding the prime minister’s r...

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Garment workers making clothes in Bangladesh for UK high-street brands state they are dealing with starvation and are having to steal and scavenge food from fields and bins to feed their children, as demonstrations continue over a new base pay for the garment workforce of 4 million people.Over the previous week, 10s of countless employees have actually taken to the ...
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Authorities fired teargas and rubber bullets at demonstrators gathered for the 2nd successive day in Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka. Opposition protesters arranged rallies blocking significant roads into Dhaka as they called for prime minister Sheikh Hasina to enable to a caretaker government ahead of elections next year. Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, the ...
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After 23 hours on his first global flight, it was only after stepping off the aircraft in the United States that Nurul Haque finally felt the relief of getting away the refugee camps of Bangladesh, where he was born.Haque was amongst the very first Rohingya refugees allowed to leave Bangladesh in more than a years. The 62 people who have flown to the US ...
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Tributes have gathered from around for world for the distinguished Bangladeshi researcher Prof Saleemul Huq, who died on 28 October.Huq, 71, was a well-known academic, a relentless environment activist and the director of the International Centre for Climate Change - & Development (ICCCAD), a research study and capacity-building organisation in Bangladesh.Shaha ...
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Bangladesh police have actually fired rubber bullets and teargas to disperse stone-throwing crowds blockading primary roadways in the capital, Dhaka, in a demonstration demanding the prime minister's resignation.The opposition Bangladesh Nationalist celebration (BNP) and its allies have staged a series of demonstrations since in 2015 demanding that Sheikh Hasina step down and ...
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The Nobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus has actually been founded guilty of breaking Bangladesh's labour laws in a trial decried by his advocates as politically motivated.The 83-year-old, credited with lifting millions out of poverty with his microfinance bank, Grameen, has made the enmity of Sheikh Hasina, the long time prime minister, who has implicated him ...
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Authorities in Bangladesh have arrested a key opposition figure from the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and sent him to prison after a nationwide strike led to violent clashes with security forces.

Media reports said at least three civilians died in the violence, which included an arson attack in the nation’s capital, Dhaka, on Sunday. Dozens of o...

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My pal Zafrullah Chowdhury, who has passed away aged 81, was a public health activist dedicated to making fundamental health care more available in rural Bangladesh. He established the community-based healthcare organisation Gonoshasthaya Kendra (GK), which supplies cost effective, top quality medical services to millions of people.After studying at Dhaka College, ...
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The year 2024 will be a vital one. The future of Gaza and the West Bank might hinge in part on whether Donald Trump goes back to the White House-- as might the result of the war in Ukraine. China will be secured a race against time as its population ages. And the natural world will reach a new series of tipping points. But there are some factors f.
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Set in post-apocalyptic Dhaka, Nuhash Humayun's Moshari ended up being the first Bangladeshi film to receive the Oscars in 2015. The spine-tingling thriller follows two siblings and their defend survival, however for the film's co-producer, Bushra Afreen, the horror fiction felt better to reality. There was so much that resonated with my own e.
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Police in Bangladesh are examining the murder of a popular trade union leader who was fatally beaten while trying to settle a dispute between a garment factory owner and workers over unpaid wages.Shahidul Islam, 45, a leading labour organiser for the Bangladesh Garment and Industrial Workers Federation (BGIWF), was attacked on Sunday night in ...
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Every night, Ruby Rafiq * lies awake on the cold, tough flooring of her little room, worrying how her household will make it through the winter season. Huddled next to her under a big patchwork blanket contributed by a charity is her 13-year-old daughter, Maya.The mom of two awaits her children to drop off to sleep before silently creeping out of the home. Wrapped in a.
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A sweet, butter-filled bread roll, neatly wrapped in plastic, has actually ended up being the snack rickshaw rider Jewel Ahmed reaches for when he requires to eat while stuck in traffic in Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka.Bun roti, as the rolls are understood, are cost 10 Bangladesh taka (7p) at the same stalls where the city's rickshaw riders buy heavily sweetened tea to w.
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For a Rohingya refugee, food rations are everything. We are not permitted to work. We are surrounded by a barbed-wire fence that stops us moving; goods are tough to bring in for trading and the couple of jobs there were have actually been lost.So food is the resource we depend on the most. Now provisions are being cut for the second time in a few months.Our reliance ...
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About 400 Rohingya refugees have been adrift in two boats on the Andaman Sea for about two weeks, according to the United Nations, which called on regional governments to help rescue them.

The number of Rohingya Muslims fleeing by boats in a seasonal exodus – usually from squalid, overcrowded refugee camps in Bangladesh – has been rising since last...

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Two years ago, Thaslima Begum and Rosie Swash began investigating what happened to babies given up for adoption in Bangladesh in the 1970s. A new law allowed families around the world to adopt Bangladeshi children for the first time. But as Thaslima and Rosie dug deeper, they found a system ripe for exploitation.

In this episode, Thaslima finally...

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Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are at risk of becoming “the new Palestinians”, according to a UN head, who said they are trapped in a protracted and increasingly neglected crisis.

Olivier De Schutter, UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, said the almost 1 million people living in overcrowded camps in Cox’s Bazar should be...

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