As a signatory to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted on September 25, 2015, Bangladesh has been engaged in implementing the

Twenty-five years ago, in 1994, representatives of 179 countries, along with civil society organisations and many other actors, came together in Cairo at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), sparking a radical shift in reproductive health.

"Where am I?” is the first question I asked myself after getting out of the car. Bewildered, I looked around. With me, there were three black students from the University of the Western Cape, and the driver of the car was also a young black man.

Holding or expressing opinions that do not go along the lines of the State is criminalised by law in many countries including ours.

The word “gentrification” means improvement of a city or neighbourhood. But its dynamics change in the bigger picture. Generally, gentrification means affluent people relocating to the ...

In 2009, the High Court Division of the Supreme Court provided a comprehensive directive on sexual harassment in educational institutions and workplaces in Bangladesh. The directive was the result of decades-long movement and advocacy by students, academics, and women activists.

2019 has been a landmark year for climate change issues. Around the world, we have seen people taking to the streets to protest, many of them children and young adults ...

Each year journalists, news media and supporters of free and independent journalism across the world celebrate November 2 as a red-letter day for journalism.

A deep understanding of how the brain works is essential in order to limit our health footprint through everyday choices.

The Right to Information Act 2009 was passed in the first session of parliament on March 29, 2009. It was a ground-breaking decision on the part of the government and paved the way for all

People and organisation in many countries around the world claim to have adopted Bhutan’s human development vision of Gross National Happiness (GNH).

It does not matter where you live, because if you are a Bangladeshi, you have already come across these expressions: “Dhakai Taka Oore” roughly translated as “Dhaka is the city of opportunities”.

I was sixteen. I had been raped by a school volunteer. The foetus had caused internal bleeding and I was minutes away from dying.

Recently I went to a fourth-year class at Khulna University to hear about students’ request to reschedule their class viva.

The South Asian University, established in New Delhi in 2010, is a remarkable institution in terms of what it envisaged. SAARC-watchers are generally of the view that the university is perhaps ahead of its times, and is the best functioning SAARC institution despite its many problems.

Who should pay to make apparel supply chains more sustainable? This is a question we hear a lot, and it is also one which causes a great many disagreements between factory owners and apparel brands.

Because of the decline in donor financed projects, opportunities for NGOs are dwindling gradually. In the present day context NGOs should play multi-dimensional roles instead of just carrying out their daily tasks.

Bangladesh has done remarkably well in reducing poverty and improving living conditions. The country halved poverty rates in a decade and a half, lifting more than 25 million people out of poverty. Between 2010 and 2016, about eight million Bangladeshi people exited poverty.

Though yesterday was World Food Day, it should have been called World Hunger Day, as it was established to bring global attention to the problem of food insecurity.

The recent barbaric murder of a second year BUET student, Abrar Fahad has left all of us appalled and unsettled.