Bangladesh

Why This Charity Has Stopped Asking For Money

3:58pm January 07, 2019

by Nurith Aizenman

In 2017, No Lean Season raised nearly $12 million to help farmhands in Bangladesh travel to the city to find jobs when fields lay fallow. Now they're saying "no" to donations. What happened?

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Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina flashes the victory symbol after casting her vote, as her daughter Saima Wazed Hossain (far left) and her sister Sheikh Rehana look on.

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Bangladesh PM Wins 3rd Term After Violent Election, Accusations Of Rigging

2:00pm December 31, 2018

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her ruling alliance handily won Sunday's general election, and at least 17 people were killed during voting. The main opposition party rejects the results.

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Bangladeshi photographer and activist Shahidul Alam, center, reacts as he is released from Dhaka Central Jail, Keraniganj, near Dhaka on Tuesday.

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Bangladeshi Photojournalist And Activist Freed After 107 Days In Prison

3:57am November 21, 2018

by Emily Sullivan

Shahidul Alam was imprisoned on charges of "spreading propaganda" for publicly criticizing the government's violent response to street protests.

Rohingya refugee children shout slogans during a protest against the repatriation process on Thursday at Unchiprang refugee camp near Cox's Bazar, in Bangladesh.

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Plan Stalls To Repatriate Rohingya Refugees

6:28pm November 15, 2018

by Merrit Kennedy

Bangladesh has stressed that it will not repatriate anyone against their will. The plan sparked protests among some refugees, while others reportedly hid within refugee camps.

the U.N. says the Rohingya are "the most persecuted minority in the world." Above, refugees cross a river to a temporary camp after crossing from Myanmar to Bangladesh.

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Running Around New York For The 'Most Persecuted Minority In The World'

3:56pm September 28, 2018

by Jason Beaubien

Hassan Abedin is on the go at the U.N. General Assembly trying to get diplomats to focus on the plight of the Rohingya refugees from Myanmar. "My Fitbit is just screaming," he says.

Third graders on board a floating school in Bangladesh run by the nonprofit group Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha.

'Floating Schools' Make Sure Kids Get To Class When The Water Rises

7:17am September 12, 2018

by Jason Beaubien

Monsoon floods won't stop these kids from going to school in Bangladesh — especially if the school comes to the student!

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Shahidul Alam, surrounded by police, arrives at a Dhaka court on Aug. 6. Nobel laureates and human rights groups have called for his release.

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'He Belongs To The World': The Powerful Work Of A Jailed Bangladeshi Photographer

5:49pm September 10, 2018

by Emma Bowman

Photojournalist and activist Shahidul Alam has helped nurture a generation of South Asian photographers. He was jailed last month on charges of "spreading propaganda and false information."

In the Balukhali refugee camp, boys between the ages of seven and 11 play with forfori, homemade toy airplanes.

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In Bangladeshi Camps, Rohingya Refugees Try To Move Forward With Their Lives

5:46pm August 30, 2018

by Jason Beaubien

Hundreds of thousands of refugees languish in the camps. UNICEF estimates that more than half the refugees are children. Some aid groups have warned that these children could become a lost generation.

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Forced To Flee Myanmar, Rohingya Refugees Face Monsoon Landslides In Bangladesh

4:26pm August 25, 2018

by Jason Beaubien

This week marks a year since hundreds of thousands of Rohingya fled attacks in Myanmar. As refugees, they now live in huge camps in Bangladesh, with difficult conditions made worse by monsoon rains.

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Dildar Begum, 30, in her shelter in the Hakimpara Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh. She says 29 members of her extended family were killed a year ago in what the U.S. has said was a campaign of ethnic cleansing by the Myanmar military.

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'I Would Rather Die Than Go Back': Rohingya Refugees Settle Into Life In Bangladesh

10:47am August 24, 2018

by Jason Beaubien

A year ago, Myanmar soldiers launched what the U.S. and the U.N. say was a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Rohingya Muslims. "I would rather drink poison than go back to Myanmar," says a refugee.

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