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The need for social distancing due to coronavirus means now is the time for schools across the world to embrace outdoor learning.
Coronavirus has shifted the mood in society, and the fashion industry should strike while the iron is hot.
Cyclone Amphan was one of the worst cyclones to hit Bangladesh in modern times. But thanks to local action, many lives were saved.
Massive cyclone that hit India and Bangladesh could have been so much worse.
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.
Safe rural migration programmes are not a substitute for formal social protection. But they could buy governments some time.
COVID-19 is spreading quickly in Bangladesh. An outbreak in the refugee camps that house some 1 million Rohingya Muslims in cramped, unsanitary quarters would be calamitous.
By pushing their usually valid complaints onto the streets and the courts, opposition leaders deny governments the popular goodwill and international credibility they need to govern effectively.
In recent years Bangladesh has seen an increase in attacks on religious minorities. A scholar explains how certain extreme views on how Islam is to be followed are taking center stage in the country.
Bangladesh is on the front lines of climate change, but factors including money, gender and religion make some Bangladeshis much more vulnerable than others. Can it find inclusive ways to cope?
Directly linking climate change with aggression and mass migration risks dehumanising those vulnerable to environmental stresses. Mufazzar’s story does the opposite.
Dozens of Muslim-majority countries are asking the UN’s International Criminal Court to investigate and prosecute a 2017 massacre in Myanmar that killed an estimated 10,000 Rohingya Muslims.
The food we eat and the products we use should not contribute to human misery. While companies hold some blame, so do consumers who avoid dealing with the consequences of their purchasing decisions.
Greece is the 10th largest exporter of strawberries in the world, but evidence shows that success is due to captive migrant farm labour who work in precarious, unsafe and unhealthy conditions.
How will future generations of Indians view Kashmir’s contested history?
On August 31, the final list of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) for the state of Assam, along the India-Bangladesh border will decide upon the future of millions of people in the state.
The current repatriation deal signed by Myanmar and Bangladesh fails to guarantee the safety and citizenship of the Rohingya people or address issues of justice for crimes perpetrated against them.
Despite a recent Tahoe Resources settlement and apology to Guatemalan protesters, Canadian companies can still get away with crimes committed abroad — even in the face of insurmountable evidence.
So many other countries see the value in breastfeeding support but the UK is lagging behind.
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Associate Professor in Policy and Intersectionality, UCL
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Professor of Social Policy, University of South Wales
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Professor of Development Economics, Monash University
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Assistant Professor, School of Public Service, Boise State University
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Adjunct Research Fellow, Humanitarian and Development Research Initiative, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Disasters and Health, UCL
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Chair in Accountancy and Professor in Sustainability Accounting and Transparency, University of Aberdeen
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Professor of Accounting, University of Essex
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Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, University of Sussex
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Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, Universitas Gadjah Mada
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Associate Professor in International & Community Development, Deakin University
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PhD Candidate, UNSW Law; Assistant professor, International Relations, University of Chittagong
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