Tag: Bangladesh

Wondering the streets and addicted to drugs, homeless children in Bangladesh finds a home in 'Khichuri'

Funding cuts leave Caritas Bangladesh in a decade-long struggle to find a lasting solution to severe drinking water shortages

Benedict Alo D’Rozario of Bangladesh was first elected into the post in 2019, making him the first lay person to fill the role

The Rana Plaza tragedy on April 24, 2013 was one of the world's worst industrial disaster

The poor, low-lying South Asian nation of 170 million people is at the forefront of climate change with frequent deadly floods

Decades ago, village councils in rural Bangladesh commonly used sharia to punish Muslim women accused of adultery

Distraught shop owners told reporters the blaze had left them destitute ahead of Eid, the Muslim festival marking the end of Ramadan

The Rohingya are widely viewed in Myanmar as interlopers from Bangladesh, despite roots in the country stretching back centuries

Yunus, 82, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, has seen his reputation at home tarnished by a labor dispute with Hasina

Roughly two-thirds of Rohingya couples are now using some form of birth control -- up from virtually none five years ago