Liberalizing foodgrains markets via New at IFPRI
Despite the Green Revolution’s dramatic success in increasing South Asia’s agricultural production, almost one quarter of the region’s population remains undernourished. The 2007–08 food price spike has further aggravated this problem. In the face of both ongoing and new challenges to food security, Liberalizing Foodgrains Markets identifies policies for countering undernourishment in the region.
From parastatals to private trade
From parastatals to private trade... Access, adoption, and diffusion via New at IFPRI
Bangladesh: Re-open Shuttered Newspaper; Free Editor via
(New York) - The Bangladesh authorities' forced closing of a daily newspaper linked to the political opposition and the detention of its editor appear to have violated both freedom of expression and due process, Human Rights Watch said today.
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UNHCR Publications: Evaluation, Health, Protection, Standing Committee via Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog
Here's a listing of some of UNHCR's latest publications:Evaluation:Changing the Way UNHCR Does Business? An Evaluation of the Age, Gender and Diversity Mainstreaming Strategy, PDES/2010/08 (June 2010) [text]No Entry! A Review of UNHCR's Response to Border Closures in Situations of Mass Refugee Influx, PDES/2010/07 (June 2010) [text]Health:Inter-agency Field Manual on Reproductive Health in Humanitarian Settings: 2010 Revision for Field Review (Inter-agency Working Group on Reproductive Health in Crises, June 2010) [text]UNHCR Field Brief: Community-based approach to improve access to prevention of mother-to-child transmission programmes in Dukwi refugee camp, Botswana (June 2010) [text]UNHCR Field Brief: Improving maternal care in Dadaab refugee camps, Kenya (June 2010)...
Exploring the long-term impact of development interventions within life-history narratives in rural Bangladesh via New at IFPRI
Publications: Asylum Legal Aid, Climate Change & Migr., Climate Displ./Bangladesh, Roma/Serbia via Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog
Climate Change, Environment, and Migration (Climate-L.org, June 2010) [text]Climate Refugees in Bangladesh – Answering the Basics: The Where, How, Who and How Many (Displacement Solutions, May 2010) [text]Justice at Risk: quality and value for money in asylum legal aid - Interim Report (ICAR & RMJ, June 2010) [text]No going back: Lesbian and gay people and the asylum system (Stonewall, 2010) [text]Serbia: Stop the forced evictions of Roma settlements (Amnesty International, June 2010) [text]Tagged...
Research for Action via New at IFPRI
Address to Bangladesh Food Security Investment Forum via New at IFPRI
Bangladesh Food Security Investment Forum via New at IFPRI
The medium-term impact of the primary education stipend in rural Bangladesh via New at IFPRI
Publications: Biharis/Bangladesh, Children & Armed Conflict Guide, Returnees/Liberia, Community-based Protection, Urban IDPs/Uganda via Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog
Biharis in Bangladesh: Inching Toward Integration (Worldbridge Blog, April 2010) [text]Children and Armed Conflict: A Guide to International Humanitarian and Human Rights (International Bureau for Children's Rights, 2010) [text]Ex-combatants, Returnees, Land and Conflict in Liberia, Working Paper, no. 5 (DIIS, 2010) [text]Safety with dignity: Integrating community based protection into humanitarian programming, Network Paper, no. 68 (HPN, March 2010) [text]Why Being Able to Return Home Should be Part of Transitional Justice: Urban IDPs in Kampala and their Quest for a Durable Solution, Working Paper, no. 2 (Beyond Juba, March 2010) [text]Tagged...
Bangladesh: Don’t Restrict Powers of Anti-Corruption Body via
(New York) - The Bangladeshi government should reject amendments that would restrict the ability of the Anti-Corruption Commission to take independent action against corrupt government officials, including those in the governing party, Human Rights Watch said today.
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Bangladesh: Allow Photo Exhibit of Crossfire Killings via
(New York) - The government of Bangladesh should allow a photo exhibit about extrajudicial executions in Dhaka to go ahead as planned, Human Rights Watch said today. Barring the exhibit from opening was a serious violation of freedom of expression, Human Rights Watch said. There have been hundreds of such killings in Bangladesh.
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Bangladesh: Hundreds Held One Year After Massacre via
(New York) - The Bangladeshi government should charge or release members of Bangladesh's border guards who have been held since the massacre of senior army officers and others a year ago, Human Rights Watch said today.
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Bangladesh receives a clean energy loan from the World Bank via Poverty News Blog
Bangladesh will receive a 100 million dollar loan from the World Bank to fund clean energy activities. Most of the money will be spent on the government's solar energy programs, the remainder of the loan money will be used to purchase CFL light bulbs.From Reuters, we read more details about the program. The government plans to finance installation of 1.0 million solar panels over the next couple of years and will distribute about 27.5 million low-wattage CFL bulbs across the country."It is a massive programme for the government and will not be possible to implement without financial support from our development partners like the World Bank," said the official at the economic relations division of the finance ministry.The state-run Rural Electrification Board and Infrastructure Development...
Short and long-term effects of the 1998 Bangladesh flood on rural wages via New at IFPRI
Publications: Cultural Persecution, Human Rights & IDPs, Iraqi Resettlement/Syria, Natural Disasters & Human Rights via Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog
"Cultural Culprits," Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice, Forthcoming (SSRN, updated 2010) [text]- In part, explores "the adjudication of asylum claims based on 'cultural persecution'."The Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons (Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement, March 2010) [text]- Speech to the Human Rights Council upon presenting final annual report as Representative of the Secretary-General on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons.Natural Disasters, Conflict, and Human Rights: Tracing the Connections (Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement, March 2010) [text]Stateless and Starving: Persecuted Rohingya Flee Burma and Starve in Bangladesh (Physicians for Human Rights, March 2010) [text]Syria: The Road to Third Country Resettlement for...
Multimedia: African Migrants/Europe, Climate Displaced, Conflict Zones, Haiti via Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog
Film: "6 Billion Others: Climate Voices" (GoodPlanet, 2010?) [access via Towards Recognition]- Film project featuring "testimonies...gathered from every continent, where the population is directly affected by climate change."Film: Europe or Die Trying - The Series (BBC, 2009) [access]- Three part documentary series on African migrants attempting to reach Europe.Photos: "Showcase: Exiled by Weather" (NYT, Feb. 2010) [access]- Photos of communities in Eastern Africa displaced by climate change.Video: "Forced to Flee - Chapter 7: Haiti's Homeless Hotel" (IRIN, Feb. 2010) [access]- Latest addition to IRIN's series of short films on internal displacement.Video: "In Low-Lying Bangladesh, the Sea Takes a Human Toll" (Yale Environment 360, 2010?) [access via Towards Recognition]- Video reports...
Web Sites: CPC Learning Network, Haiti Crisis Map, IAPS, Riverbank Erosion/Bangladesh, Migration Malta, ReliefWeb News via Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog
Agency Learning Network on the Care and Protection of Children in Crisis-Affected Countries (CPC Learning Network) [site]- "The goal of the CPC Learning Network is to further strengthen and to systematize child care and protection through the collaborative action of humanitarian organizations, local institutions, and academic partners." See esp. the bibliography and full-text document library under "resources."Haiti: The 2010 Earthquake in Haiti [site]- "This Crisis Map of Haiti represents the most comprehensive and up-to-date crisis map available to the humanitarian community. The information here is mapped in near real time and gathered from reports coming from inside Haiti via: SMS, Web, Email, Radio, Phone, Twitter, Facebook, Television, List-serves, Live streams, Situation...
Asia Focus via Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog
The Asia Pacific Refugee Research Network (APRRN) now has an official web site. The aim of the network is to "advance the rights of refugees in the Asia Pacific region." Working groups focus on different geographic regions (South Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia, and Australia/Pacific) and different thematic issues (detention, legal aid and advocacy, women and girls at risk, right to health, and international advocacy).One focus of the APRRN's has been the treatment of refugees from Myanmar, the largest populations of which are in Thailand, Malaysia, Bangladesh and India, and include ethnic Rohingya, Chin and Karen. Several reports have been issued recently that look more closely at their situation, particularly that of the Rohingya in Bangladesh:Burma: Rohingya A Year Later (World...
Optimal stock for the public food grain distribution system in Bangladesh via New at IFPRI
Beyond the Bari via New at IFPRI
Comparing Food and Cash Transfers to the Ultra-Poor in Bangladesh via New at IFPRI
Agricultural libraries in Bangladesh via AgInfo News from IAALD
The journal 'Information Science Today' features three articles about agricultural libraries in Bangladesh:Networking of Agricultural Information Systems in Bangladesh (BD-AGRINET): A ModelThe role of Libraries for the development of human resources in the field of Agriculture in BangladeshLibrary automation: A study of the AIC, BANSDOC and the National libraries of Bangladesh...
The growing social security problem in Bangladesh via Poverty News Blog
Experts are calling on Bangladesh to improve social security for the quickly growing elderly population in the country. From IRIN we take a look at the problem for the country that has 6 percent of it's population at the age 60 or older. With a growing number of older people and a large impoverished population, Bangladesh needs to improve social security support for the country’s most vulnerable groups, experts say. Over 6 percent of the population or 7.2 million people are aged 60 or over, according to the last census in 2001. About 80,000 people are added to this older population every year, which is projected to be over 17 million people by 2025, growing at a rate faster than that of Europe’s, according to government officials.However, most of these older people and many of the...
Over half of the children in Bangladesh live in poverty via Poverty News Blog
New reports show that 56 percent of Bangladeshi children live in poverty. UNICEF says that amounts to 33 million children.The UNICEF study also has some unique ways of measuring poverty. The report separates needs such as sanitation, shelter and nutrition into different categories. This helps to show how many children lack access to one particular need. From IRIN, we read more about the UNICEF study. Over half of Bangladesh’s children are living in poverty and there is widespread deprivation amongst them in the basic areas of food, sanitation and shelter, with limited ability to escape their circumstances, according to experts.A new report by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Bangladesh found that 33 million children under 18 - around 56 percent of the child population - are...