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16 May 2013

Bangladesh + 1 other
Evacuation volunteers fan out in Bangladesh

Report
— IRIN

DHAKA, 16 May 2013 (IRIN) - Some 50,000 volunteers in coastal communities across southern Bangladesh are out and about warning people to move to higher ground ahead of Cyclone Mahasen. Hundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated so far.

"We've been working here for the last couple of days," Joydev Dutt, a Red Crescent volunteer from Barguna District, told IRIN. He has spent hours riding around on his bicycle in heavy rain with a megaphone hurled over his shoulder. "People are responding to our warning. Almost all people in this cyclone-prone area have been evacuated."

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13 May 2013

Bangladesh + 1 other
Bangladesh, Myanmar brace for Cyclone Mahasen

Report
— IRIN

BANGKOK, 13 May 2013 (IRIN) - Bangladesh and Myanmar are bracing for Cyclone Mahasen, a storm which could affect millions in the region, the UN has warned.

“We are fully prepared and coordination systems are in place,” Mohammad Abdul Wazed, additional secretary of the Bangladesh Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief, told IRIN on 13 May from Dhaka, noting that local disaster management committees at district and sub-district level had already been activated.

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07 May 2013

Bangladesh
Calamity planning - Bangladesh role-plays quake response

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— IRIN

DHAKA, 7 May 2013 (IRIN) - As Bangladesh armed forces retrieve bodies from the country's worst ever industrial disaster, a garment factory collapse killing over 700, contingency planning is taking place for something worse - a long-predicted earthquake striking the mega-capital of Dhaka.

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22 Apr 2013

Bangladesh
Political instability undermines disaster preparedness in Bangladesh

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— IRIN

DHAKA, 22 April 2013 (IRIN) - Ongoing political instability in Bangladesh is undermining disaster preparedness efforts, experts warn. From January to April 2013, opposition parties have enforced 18 nationwide strikes throughout Bangladesh, with even more enforced at the regional and district level, according to security analysts.

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11 Apr 2013

Bangladesh
Analysis: Why food can kill in Bangladesh

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— IRIN

Children younger than five are at the greatest risk from eating unsafe food, which causes at least 18 percent of deaths in that age group and 10 percent of adult deaths.

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27 Mar 2013

Bangladesh
Time to reconcile in Bangladesh?

Report
— IRIN

DHAKA, 27 March 2013 (IRIN) - Recent civil unrest on the streets of Bangladesh has left experts questioning how to move past the country’s violent birth - without incurring more deaths.

“This is unprecedented violence of a shocking nature. The nation never experienced such violence in post-independent Bangladesh,” said Sabir Mustafa, a London-based political specialist covering Bangladeshi politics.

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12 Feb 2013

Bangladesh
Bangladeshi health sector corruption hits poor hardest

Report
— IRIN

Of more than 7,500 households surveyed nationwide - half of whom received services through government hospitals - 21.5 percent reported paying for services they never got a receipt for.

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05 Feb 2013

Bangladesh
Fresh outbreak of Nipah virus in Bangladesh

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— IRIN

DHAKA, 5 February 2013 (IRIN) - Health experts in Bangladesh have reported a fresh outbreak of the Nipah virus, with 10 deaths in the past few weeks. If infected you have a high chance of dying.

“The fatality rate is an astounding 77 percent,” ASM Alamgir, a virologist at the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR), told IRIN.

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31 Jan 2013

Bangladesh
Needs assessment fatigue in Bangladesh

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— IRIN

Unified, evidence-based assessment of needs will help donors, NGOs and the government to respond more effectively in an emergency

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22 Jan 2013

Bangladesh + 3 others
Analysis: The right to food in Bangladesh

Report
— IRIN

Despite the government laying out its commitment in 2012 to food security “for all people of the country at all times” at least 31 percent of the population still lack nutritious life-sustaining food

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04 Jan 2013

Bangladesh
Community radio role in disaster preparedness

Report
— IRIN

More than a third of the country's population (some 50 million people) live in coastal areas. Many are in rural areas where radio is the main medium of information.

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27 Dec 2012

Bangladesh + 1 other
Mohammad Shafique, "I am having trouble just supporting myself here"

Report
— IRIN

COX'S BAZAR, 27 December 2012 (IRIN) - More than two months after Rohingya refugee Mohammad Shafique fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar, the 32-year-old wonders whether he will be able to return.

Under Burmese law, the Rohingya are de jure stateless and have long faced persecution and discrimination in Myanmar, human rights groups say. Meanwhile, Bangladesh, already home to more than 250,000, mostly undocumented Rohingya refugees, insists it is in no position to accept any more. Shafique told IRIN his story:

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18 Dec 2012

Bangladesh + 1 other
Deforestation threatens food security in southeast

Report
— IRIN

COX'S BAZAR, 19 December 2012 (IRIN) - Activists warn food insecurity in southeastern Bangladesh may worsen over the next decade as a result of unfettered deforestation.

Abdul Mannan of local NGO Society for Health Extension & Development works with communities in Cox's Bazar District where, by the group's estimate, some 400,000 depend on the forest to survive.

"The southeastern sub-districts of Ukhia and Teknaf are, in comparison, far poorer than other parts of the country," he told IRIN. "And the people here have no alternative income sources to the forest."

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17 Dec 2012

Bangladesh + 1 other
NGO ban hurting undocumented Rohingya

Report
— IRIN

COX'S BAZAR, 17 December 2012 (IRIN) - Some 40,000 undocumented Rohingya refugees are being adversely affected by a government ban four months ago on NGOs working at two makeshift sites in southeastern Bangladesh.

In August, Bangladeshi authorities ordered three NGOs - Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Action Against Hunger and Muslim Aid UK - to stop the formal delivery of humanitarian services, including health care and food to undocumented Rohingya refugees, saying such services would encourage more to flee to Bangladesh.

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07 Dec 2012

Bangladesh
Wliar Rahman – School teacher, Bangladesh

Report
— IRIN

DHAKA, 06 December 2012 (IRIN) - Wliar Rahman, a 47-year-old primary school teacher in Mirpur sub-district in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, lives with his wife and two children, and is constantly having to borrow money to get by.

He describes his financial situation as “miserable”, and worries about the cost of educating his children and the rise in the price of basic necessities; he does not believe he will be better off in a year’s time.

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27 Nov 2012

Bangladesh
Analysis: What's happening with aid to Bangladesh?

Report
— IRIN

BANGKOK, 27 November 2012 (IRIN) - While Bangladesh has made significant efforts to boost aid effectiveness, questions remain over who is benefiting from the US$1.5 billion in foreign aid the country receives annually [ http://www.globalhumanitarianassistance.org/countryprofile/bangladesh ].

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05 Nov 2012

Bangladesh
Government urges stronger aid coordination

Report
— IRIN

DHAKA, 5 November 2012 (IRIN) - The international community should strengthen its local coordination in times of disaster, says the Bangladesh government.

"This needs to be improved to be more effective," Mohammad Abdul Wazed, additional secretary of the Bangladesh Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief, told IRIN in Dhaka. "We're always talking about who is doing what and where from the international community. Sometimes we simply don't know."

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29 Oct 2012

Bangladesh + 1 other
UNHCR calls on Dhaka to open border

Report
— IRIN

BANGKOK, 29 October 2012 (IRIN) - The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has called on Bangladesh to open its borders to Rohingyas fleeing sectarian violence in Myanmar.

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23 Oct 2012

Bangladesh
Where landslides are becoming a man-made disaster

Report
— IRIN

CHITTAGONG, 23 October 2012 (IRIN) - Previously relocated residents of southeastern Bangladesh are returning to the sites of their former homes in hilly areas at high risk of landslides, say activists and locals.

"This is fast becoming a major problem," Abdul Matin, secretary-general of Bangladesh Paribesh Andalan, a Dhaka-based activist group, told IRIN. "Each year the local government relocates a number of families, but they return."

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16 Oct 2012

Bangladesh
Cyclone shelters - for livestock too

Report
— IRIN

ALAKDIA, 16 October 2012 (IRIN) - When Bangladeshi subsistence farmer Nur Banu heard a cyclone was bearing down on her village and she needed to evacuate, the 70-year-old had only one thing on her mind.

"Not without my cow. Without it, I wouldn't have any source of income," she told IRIN later outside her home in Alakdia, a largely agricultural community of 700 people 25km north of the southern port city of Chittagong.

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