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Student protests over quotas for public sector jobs rock Bangladesh.
The 2013 Dhaka garment factory collapse is the clothing industry’s worst ever industrial incident. Not enough has changed for garment workers.
COVID-19 is spreading fast through not only the world’s richest cities but also its poorest, ravaging slum areas where risk factors like overcrowding and poverty accelerate disease transmission.
Young people raised their voices in the streets and online – but a government crackdown seeks to silence them.
Smoking ban in Bangladesh isn’t working, and children are paying the price.
A co-operative project that maps services in Dhaka shows how communities of citizens can be more than passive users of the digital platforms that increasingly shape our daily lives.
As cities trumpet their liveability, creativity and greenness, many informal settlement activities are often relegated to the shadows.
Bringing significant benefits to an emergent middle class, Dhaka’s cultural, economic, environmental and political landscapes are being rapidly but unevenly transformed.







