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Many critics say that fish farms mainly sell their output to wealthy countries and don’t provide much benefit to poor people in producing countries. Three aquaculture experts show why this view is wrong.
Vast numbers of Rohingyas in the region are stateless, living in limbo. Therefore, the Rohingya repatriation deal, its terms, delay and successful implementation impacts upon the lives of millions.
The way Bangladesh has taken in Rohingyas stands in stark contrast to Europe, which faced an influx of Syrian refugees in similar numbers. I saw how refugee camps were being run in an efficient manner.
Facebook is unwittingly helping fuel a genocide against the Rohingya people in Myanmar. Does Cuba’s internet model provide lessons to manage social media amid political chaos?
Smoking ban in Bangladesh isn’t working, and children are paying the price.
Foreign MPs can strengthen the message that violence towards the Rohingya has consequences for Myanmar’s future relations with European countries.
Refugees’ rights are protected by international law. Why are the Rohingya being returned home?
Factories that produce fast fashion garments are still highly dangerous workplaces – and not just because they might collapse.
As more than 800,000 Rohingya have now fled Myanmar for Bangladesh, a large-scale humanitarian crisis has unfolded. But what is the most productive way Australia can help?
Interviews undertaken in refugee camps on the Bangladesh/Myanmar border paint a grim picture that explains why so many Rohingya fled Myanmar so quickly.
Despite an international commitment to protect civilians from genocidal violence, the world’s response to ethnic cleansing in Myanmar has been feeble. An expert explains the challenges.
Despite the passionate for which they are usually fought, independence movements are rarely successful and their outcomes less than hoped for.
Genocide doesn’t begin with mass murder. It’s a long, insidious process that can be stopped before it’s too late.
Nepal has blamed India for exacerbating intense monsoon flooding that has killed at least 1,200 people in the last two months.
Why don’t people evacuate their homes when warned of impending storm danger? To save lives, resiliency plans must understand how locals in climate-vulnerable places assess risk.
Two-and-a-half decades on from the end of military rule, Bangladesh faces many of the same critical problems it always has.
It’s a dirty scientific job – but it could save lives.
Successful policy interventions, especially those in the social realm influenced by the vagaries of human behaviour, don’t seem to travel well.
The focus of food production systems, including aquaculture, must move beyond maximising yields to consider nutritional quality too.
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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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