The WFP Bangladesh Nutrition Strategy 2012-2016 outlines an investment in the next generation. If children do not receive vital nutrients in their formative years then there is a strong link to poor physical and cognitive development. This limits their future income earning and education potential.
DHAKA, 22 May 2012 (IRIN) - Up to 40,000 people living in the biggest slum in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, could be facing eviction after a court order to clear government land in the city. So far 4,500 have been put out of their homes, and activists claim there are similar plans for the rest of the residents in the coming months.
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Dhaka (ICRC) – The Border Guards of Bangladesh (BGB), the largest security force in the country, are to take part in a training course on international humanitarian law and international human rights law. The course, jointly organized by the BGB's Khulna Sector Headquarters and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), will be held on 22 and 23 May.
Improving food security for the most vulnerable women, children, and families requires a multifaceted approach to address the root causes of hunger and poverty.
An innovative program in Bangladesh is demonstrating that integrating women’s empowerment programs with more traditional health and nutrition interventions can make a big difference in saving and improving lives in impoverished communities, helping more children live to celebrate their 5th Birthdays.
DHAKA, 22 May 2012 (IRIN) - The number of Bangladeshi citizens killed by Indian Border Security Forces (BSF) this year shows no decline, activists say.
Despite protests by the Bangladeshi government and rights groups, the number of border killings continue,” Adilur Rahman Khan, secretary of Odhikar, a human rights group, told IRIN on 22 May.
Since 2000, 945 Bangladeshis have been shot and killed by the BSF, while more than 700 have been injured, the group reported.
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DHAKA, Bangladesh (AlertNet) – New local language community radio stations in Bangladesh’s coastal districts are warning residents about cyclones and helping farmers cope with erratic weather patterns.
The new radio stations are part of an initiative to reduce loss of life and damage to livelihoods from natural disasters and unpredictable weather.
Germany, Italy, France, Russia and the United Kingdom Agree to Join the Climate and Clean Air Coalition
22 May 2012 - All Members of the G8, during a meeting at Camp David in the United States, have thrown their collective support behind a new international effort to phase-down so-called short lived climate pollutants.
KLANG, Malaysia, May 22, 2012 (AFP) - For five years, Abdul Rahim Abdul Hashim was repeatedly press-ganged into forced labour at a Myanmar military camp, until the ethnic Rohingya teenager could take no more.
Abdul Rahim crossed the border into neighbouring Bangladesh late last year and secured passage on a rickety boat for the perilous 3,200-kilometre (2,000-mile) sea voyage to Malaysia.
Stamford, Conn. – May 21, 2012 – Trumbull-based CooperSurgical, Inc. recently donated a series of Tria® Fetal Dopplers to AmeriCares. These devices will be used to assess fetal viability for expectant mothers in Afghanistan and Bangladesh. The hand-held dopplers detect a fetal heart rate as early as 8 weeks from conception allowing physicians to confirm a viable fetus and on occasion detect a potentially life-threatening issue prior to birth when the condition may be treatable.
DHAKA, May 18, 2012 (IPS) - Caught between arsenic contaminated groundwater and diarrhoea-causing microbes in its ponds and rivers, achieving the millennium development goal of providing access to safe drinking water for its 160 million people by 2015 is a tough call for Bangladesh.
Yet, with a programme of using simple hand pumps and involving the women in affected communities, Bangladesh has managed to ensure that 98 percent of its rural population now has access to safe drinking water.
The Global Agriculture & Food Security Program, known as GAFSP, stands out for its early results in improving food security for the world's poor.
On the eve of the G8 Summit, food security is again taking center stage, and for good reason. Almost 1 billion people are struggling with hunger every day. Most of them are children.
One Little Life at a Time: Emergency Response in the Horn of Africa
In 2011, people in the Horn of Africa asked only one question: When will the rains return?
After two years of drought, 13 million people (half of them children) are still hungry and at risk of malnutrition—or worse. Families now depend on humanitarian aid to survive, many sheltered in the camps on the borders of Ethiopia and Kenya.
BANGKOK, 9 May 2012 (IRIN) - A vaccine against one of the most neglected yet fatal tropical diseases is being tested for the first time in a clinical trial in India and the US. After malaria, leishmaniasis is the second largest parasitic killer, and the visceral form is the most deadly.
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Burma’s landmark census planned for 2014 is likely to exclude and further isolate its Rohingya minority group, which has been denied citizenship by the government since 1982.
Although the government has agreed to include all “national races” in the census, the 1.5 million Muslim minority group does not fall under this category and campaigners worry they will be left out.
