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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Human rights organization Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF) has expressed deep concern and indignation over the increasing ...

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 ...

In Bangladesh, a new report finds, impoverished children are working long hours in violation of that country's labor laws. Children under the age of 14 who've given up school for jobs are toiling an ...

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 ...

Books tucked under their arms, children file into a small classroom in Bangladesh's vast refugee camps, home to more than a million Rohingya who have fled neighbouring Myanmar. "They still dream of ...

Dhaka, June 12 -- While a new report shows a sharp decline in child labour in the Asia-Pacific region, the situation in Bangladesh is not the same. The broader child labor rate (detrimental forms of ...