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In search of a lost child
Southkhali, Bagerhat: Hundreds of men, women and children, their lives shattered by cyclone Sidr, queued for desperately needed relief in Southkhali in Bagerhat Tuesday. After a long wait with little drinking water, the villagers, many bereaved and all in a state of shock, eventually received either biscuits or other dry food from relief workers. Aleya […]
Stench of death hangs over Bangladesh village
SWARANKHOLA, Bangladesh : The stench of death from bloated corpses wafts through the air at Swarankhola, a small fishing village in southern Bangladesh that bore the brunt of a deadly cyclone last week. Three days after the Cyclone Sidr swept through the Bay of Bengal with winds of 250 kms
Award for young women journalists
The Jayaraman family and the Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) jointly announce the Anupama Jayaraman Memorial Award for young women journalists for the year 2008. The Award had been set up in the memory of Anupama Jayaraman, a young and promising Bangalore-based journalist who passed away in January 2006. Anupama was not only […]
Rickshaw: Environment Comrade Vehicle’s Departure
“I am pulling rickshaw for seven years. My house is in Rampur district. My Father-Mother, Sister-Brother lives in the village. I send them two thousand taka every month. I pass my life in Dhaka with rest money” – Md. Deloar Hossain said this with hesitation. This twenty seven years old rickshaw puller has not married […]
Ban on sex education is a violation of international commitments
Hyderabad : Members of a worldwide youth coalition today demanded that their right to sex education not be denied. The 4th Asia Pacific Conference of Reproductive and Sexual health and Rights officially endorsed this demand. In an open letter to the governments of the Asia Pacific region released on the closing day of the three […]
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