Since Aug. 17, 2024, unprecedentedly heavy monsoon rains combined with the release of water from upstream sources have overwhelmed eastern Bangladesh. Swollen rivers breached their banks, submerging ...

Bangladesh’s Child Health Research Foundation (CHRF) has received a prestigious Wellcome Discovery Award to investigate ...

“Among the 27 deceased, one was a pilot and another was a local resident, the remaining 25 were children.” “We can confirm that the total number of deaths is 27. Across all hospitals, 78 people have ...

UKHIYA, Bangladesh (AP) — The United States’ decision to slash its foreign aid program has contributed to a sharp rise in abuses involving children trapped in Bangladesh’s refugee camps for members of ...

DHAKA (Reuters) - An increasing number of Rohingya people are leaving refugee camps in Bangladesh with their children, taking to boats in search of a better life as hopes fade of returning to Myanmar ...

DHAKA, (August 13, 2024) - Children need to return to schools and colleges, be protected from violence, and no longer be allowed to work as traffic controllers, said Save the Children as the interim ...

Over 2 million people — including over 772,000 children — are feeling the effects of severe flooding in northeastern Bangladesh. UNICEF is there. A girl wades through floodwaters in Sylhet, ...

COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh, June 8 (UNHCR) - When children in the two refugee camps near here speak of their role models, Bollywood stars and Italian football players take a back seat to a tall, quiet ...

Dhaka, Bangladesh, 6 December 2023 — A recent assessment by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) reveals a dramatic increase in child marriage within Bangladesh's highly disaster-prone and climate ...

Bangladeshi child labourers who live in slums work for an average of 64 hours a week, many of them in textile factories making clothes for top world brands, a major study said Wednesday. The new ...