Editorial

Lisa Cornish :Supporting peacekeeping is at the core of the International Civil Society Action Network, or ICAN, which builds networks at the local level to...

International Organization for Migration :Health services for people affected by the Rohingya refugee crisis in Bangladesh received a boost this week, when IOM, the UN...

DUE to a lack of proper action plan, Dhaka city’s microclimate situation is rapidly worsening, making a major impact on its development and habitation. Speakers...

AN elderly woman Mazkura Ayub (63) can’t walk as she fails to put her feet flat on the ground and also move three fingers of...

AFTER the Tazreen Fashion fire and Rana Plaza disaster, the inspection and remediation platform Accord has apparently become a burden to the country’s garments sector...

A plea to protect women and children Nadia Murad, human rights activist and Nobel laureate, is a brave girl. Without any hesitation she said that...

BBC :In small villages along the eastern coast of Bangladesh, researchers have noticed an unexpectedly high rate of miscarriage. As they investigated further, scientists reached...

Lisa Stadelbauer :Throughout history, oceans, seas, lakes and rivers have provided life and livelihoods to people around the world. Today, they are a multi-trillion-dollar global...

ANTI-CORRUPTION Commission Chairman Iqbal Mahmud has said that ACC lags behind the institutional capacity and its investigation is not up-to-the mark. For that reason, it...

Personal hygiene to fight flu The news of flu claiming lives of young people is terrifying. Flu may seem like a minor issue that a...

Stavros Papagianneas :We are currently living in the midst of a historic time period in which mistrust and polarisation between societies are rising. Disinformation, fake...

Stella Paul :As 2018 nears its end, the world faces a new wave of food insecurity with the level of hunger being on the rise...