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Three big financial shifts put spotlight on social and environmental impacts of large dams — again
Three big shifts in flows of finance have rendered recent efforts to limit the environmental and social impacts of large dams marginal, say researchers, who urge the backers of new dams to adopt the Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocol to ensure safeguards are in place. The call comes at a key point in the story Read More…»
Domestic Workers Devaluation and Discrimination: State of Labour in Bangladesh 2014
The Unnayan Onneshan is a progressive think‐tank that undertakes research for advancing ideas and building constituencies for social transformation. The institute advances critical scholarship, promotes inter‐disciplinary dialogue and amplifies grassroots perspectives. The public‐interest research institute works in collaboration with national partners, international organisations and leading universities. The Unnayan Onneshan was registered in 2003 as a Read More…»
DEBUNKING THE MYTHS: Domestic Worker Book
Waged domestic work, connecting the economics of home and the economics of workplace, is one of the world’s oldest professions with roots in both slave and feudal economies and is considered to be highly gendered, racialised, classed, personalised and informal service (Romero, 1992). Domestic workers, therefore, constitute an extremely heterogeneous group that generally carries out Read More…»
Discussion and Photo Exhibition Remembering the devastating cyclone 29 April 1991
Dhaka, 29 April 2014: Today at the National Press Club Auditorium right based organization COAST Trust and Photography institute Counter Foto jointly organized a panel discussion and a photo exhibition titled “Remembering 29 April 1991: Is our coast still safe?”. The honorable Deputy Minister to Environment and Forest Mr. Abdullah Al Islam Jacob MP inaugurates Read More…»
Devaluation and Discrimination of Domestic Workers
The Unnayan Onneshan, an independent multidisciplinary think-tank, calls for codification of domestic workers, who historically have remained voiceless, economically devalued, socially discriminated and led downcast lives, as labourers and award of consequential entitlements of rights enshrined in the core labour standards. Debunking the orthodox myths, the think-tank builds five analytical properties of the domestic workers Read More…»
A comprehensive report on Publication Reward 2014 Ceremony of IUBAT
International University of Business Agriculture and Technology (IUBAT) has rewarded faculties of different disciplines who authored research oriented articles on core socio-economic issues which came out in international journals. The university, through a formal Publication Reward 2014 Ceremony, recognized the academic excellence of old and new scholars through a ceremony rewarding them in the form of cash Read More…»
Bangladesh Ambassador to USA urges the expatriate business community to promote trade and investment in Bangladesh
Bangladesh Ambassador to USA urges the expatriate business community to promote trade and investment in Bangladesh. On the occasion of 10th Anniversary of Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce in Dallas, Texas, Bangladesh Ambassador to USA Akramul Qader addressed the expatriate business community recently at a reception held at the Marriott Hotel, Dallas. The reception was attended by Read More…»
Alternative Dispute Resolution Mechanism
Bangladesh Shrimp and Fish Foundation is going to organize a signing ceremony of “Alternative Dispute Resolution Mechanism” under the tripartite Memorandum of BFFEA, BSFF and Solidarity Center for promotion of ILO Core Labor Standards and Bangladesh Labor Act in the Bangladesh Shrimp Processing Plants” to be held at 05:00 pm on April 30, 2014 at the Read More…»
K.M. Mominur Rahman New Ambassador of Bangladesh to Bahrain
The Government has decided to appoint Major General K.M. Mominur Rahman, afwc, psc, as the new Ambassador of Bangladesh to the Kingdom of Bahrain. Major General K.M. Mominur Rahman was commissioned in Bangladesh Army in 1980. Before joining Ministry of Foreign Affairs on deputation he served in various capacities including the Executive Chairman of BEPZA, Read More…»
Sheersha News
Sheersha News is one of the famous online news portal of Bangladesh. Mainly they are focus on political issues, but not only that, entertainment, business, science, technology, sports, movies, travel, jobs, education, health, environment, human-rights news and also the breaking news are available in their online news portal. Sheersha News has very rich news portal in Read More…»
Photo exhibition Remembering 29 April
COAST Trust and Counter Foto is going to organize an event. Everybody is invited to join the discussion and photo exhibition titled “Remembering 29 April 1991: Is our coast still safe?” going to be held tomorrow, 29 April 2014, 10.30 am to 1.30 pm at the National Press Club Auditorium. The Photo Exhibition will be Read More…»
TI & NBR Nexus: Covert meeting on tobacco taxation on!!!
Multinational tobacco giant British American Tobacco, Bangladesh (BATB) and other domestic tobacco companies have been engaged into a closed-door meeting with the NBR Chairman at his office today (28 April, 2014) since morning. Although the meeting was scheduled as part of a pre-budget discussion on tobacco taxation in the upcoming budget, the tobacco makers denied Read More…»
German Development Cooperation & Improved Cooking Stoves
To mark the occasion of successful installation of 500,000 Bondhu Chulas (Improved Cooking Stoves) in Bangladesh, German Development Cooperation and the Department of Environment organized a rally and discussion program in the capital today (Sunday, 27 April 2014). The rally started from the Central Shaheed Minar in the morning and ended at the Osmani Read More…»
CMAB– NBR ‘secret meeting’ held
National Board of Revenue (NBR) has held a secret meeting with the Cigarette Manufacturers’ Association of Bangladesh (CMAB). The meeting was held on April 28, 2014 at the chamber of Golam Rahman, the NBR chairman, from 11.00am to 12.15pm at the NBR office, although it was slated to be held at the NBR conference room Read More…»
Nearly 500 IT experts sit for ITEE to get Int. recognition
Nearly 500 local IT professionals and students on Sunday sat for second international standardized Information Technology Engineers Examination (ITEE) held in Dhaka and Rajshahi, to get a global recognition of their IT skills. The examination was held at Curzon Hall, University of Dhaka (DU), Computer Science and Engineering Department, BUET here and Rajshahi University simultaneously. The ITEE, Read More…»