Despite progress, millions still live in poverty, climate change-related disasters pose a grave threat, and child mortality, malnutrition and marriage rates are among the world’s highest. Bangladesh’s ...

The sidewalks of Dhaka serve as both home and shelter for countless street children.  Among them is twelve-year-old Abu Bakr, ...

Minimum working age in Bangladesh is 14, but 93% of child labourers work in small workshops and slip under radar Last week the city marked the first anniversary of the Rana Plaza garment factory ...

Cash-based programs with complementary “cash plus” services have a stronger impact on poverty reduction, Gayle Martin, ...

A new report from the University of Nottingham's Rights Lab and GoodWeave International highlights the risk of modern slavery ...

Children constitute a significant portion of Bangladesh's population ... neglect, and extreme poverty. These children, who bear the brunt of systemic failures, were among the most affected ...

In 2020, South Asia witnessed one of the heaviest monsoon seasons in years, with two severe cyclons striking Bangladesh and India within just a few weeks of one another. In the Phillipines, multiple ...

Several children were among hundreds of people held in secret detention centers in Bangladesh, a commission investigating enforced disappearances carried out during the tenure of now-deposed premier ...

Mufiya Khatoon—a poor, illiterate young woman in rural Bangladesh—used to spend her days begging for a few ounces of rice to feed her children. She desperately wanted a livelihood, but lacked the ...

Dhaka (AFP) – Several children were among hundreds of people held in secret detention centres in Bangladesh, a commission investigating enforced disappearances carried out during the tenure of ...