Ian Urbina ( The Outlaw Ocean Project) En el último semestre se han sucedido inquietantes publicaciones sobre graves violaciones de los derechos humanos relacionadas con la pesca industrial. Primero fue la investigación que expuso el trabajo forzado en el mar ligado a … Continue reading Algo empieza a oler muy mal en el suministro mundial de marisco.
by Mahadi Al Hasnat Imagine a mother in a rural village drawing water from a well with her pitcher. This seemingly ordinary water holds her family’s future — for drinking, cooking and bathing. But beneath the surface lurks a hidden threat: … Continue reading Beneath the surface, a toxic tide threatens Bangladesh’s water lifeline
By Abu Siddique Over several decades, Bangladesh has seen an increase in the frequency of lightnings and, consequently, an increase in fatalities resulting from lightning strikes. Researchers have linked the increased frequency of lightning with climate change. As for the increased death toll, … Continue reading As lightning strike fatalities increase, Bangladesh still has no reliable preventive measures
Bangladesh’s critically endangered wild elephants have received a court order banning their adoption and protecting them from exploitation. Animal rights groups welcomed the High Court suspension of all licences, so young Asian elephants can no longer be captured and taken … Continue reading Bangladesh’s critically endangered Asian elephants get court protection
By Rafiqul Islam DHAKA — Lika Chakma, 37, says she can still remember her childhood days when the springs in the Digholchari Hajachara area of eastern Bangladesh, where she grew up, flowed year-round. These perennial water bodies supported not only the … Continue reading Indigenous effort in Bangladesh helps reverse endangered fish’s slide to extinction
by Mahadi Al Hasnat on 9 January 2024 DHAKA — Bangladesh’s strong economic growth over the past two decades has lifted millions of the country’s citizens out of poverty. It’s also led to a booming elite class — one with an increasingly … Continue reading Elite appetite turns Bangladesh from source to consumer of tiger parts
By Azad Majumder Dhaka, (EFE).- Bangladesh is witnessing a surge in deadly violence as millions of textile workers take to the streets for a decent wage, with clashes claiming four lives so far. The demand for a hike has been … Continue reading Why textile workers are shedding blood on Bangladeshi streets
Woman recounts suffering on perilous journeys taken to escape oppression in Myanmar and squalid Bangladesh camps Shaikh Azizur Rahman and Rebecca Ratcliffe in Bangkok | Jan. 8 2023 Hatemon Nesa recalled hugging her young daughter tightly as the cramped, broken-down boat they were sitting on drifted aimlessly. They had set off on 25 November from the squalid Cox’s Bazar refugee camp in Bangladesh, where they had lived since 2017, when a brutal crackdown by Myanmar’s military forced more than 700,000 Rohingya to flee over the border. The 27-year-old, like many other Rohingya refugees, was hoping for a better life in Malaysia. But about 10 days into the journey the boat’s engine … Continue reading Rohingya refugees bet lives on boat crossings despite rising death toll
By Paula Hancocks, Sandi Sidhu and Rhea Mogul, CNN | January 4, 2023 Aceh, IndonesiaCNN—Hatemon Nesa weeps as she clings to her 5-year-old daughter, Umme Salima, at a rescue shelter in Indonesia’s Aceh province. Their faces appear gaunt, their eyes sullen, after drifting for weeks at sea on a boat with little food or water. “My skin was rotting off and my bones were visible,” Nesa said. “I thought I would die on that boat.” Nesa also cries for her 7-year-old daughter, Umme Habiba, who she says she was forced to leave behind in Bangladesh – she couldn’t afford any more than the $1,000 the traffickers demanded to transport her and her … Continue reading ‘I thought I would die on that boat’: Mother recalls the horror of month adrift at sea
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