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Hear from supporters, staff and people working with ActionAid Bangladesh working to end poverty.

A stare for a ‘stare’
Surely many people have heard the phrase ‘an eye for an eye’, but ‘a stare for a stare’! I do not think so. ‘The meaning of the principle, an eye for an eye, is that a person who has injured another...
by:
Afrin Chowdhury
Monday, 12 March 2012 - 1:48pm
Activista Bangladesh

Bloggers Swarm

Campaign

International Women's day

International Women's Day 2012

IWD

IWD 2012

Bangladesh

Womens Rights

Asia
Best wishes from far and away…
'Greetings' - a word that is so sweet and can make you close to people whom you never knew! How you feel when you enter office everyday and gets 'hi', 'hello', 'morning', 'good morning' from your...
by:
Shirin Akhter
Thursday, 8 March 2012 - 10:26pm
International Women’s Day

Bangladesh

Womens Rights

Asia
Your 'will' is YOU
“What do you want to be?” could be the second common question you have answered at several points in life. I remember scratching my scalp last time my grandfather held me in his arms and asked me the...
by:
Amiruzzaman Tamal
Thursday, 8 March 2012 - 9:38pm
International Women’s Day

Bangladesh

Education

Womens Rights

Asia
What Activistas can learn from Salma – a former street child
In Bangladesh the “Vision of Girls”-project is one of the ways Action Aid fights to create better futures for young girls. As a member of Activista I have had the honor to meet Salma who used to live...

by:
Afrin Chowdhury
Tuesday, 6 March 2012 - 2:41pm

Activista Blogger swarm

International Women’s Day

Bangladesh

Education

Womens Rights

Asia
In celebration of unsung heroines
Meryl Streep just got an Oscar award for her spectacular performance of one the world’s most controversial female leaders. A few months back, three women were given the Nobel Peace Prize...

by:
Joanna Kerr
Monday, 5 March 2012 - 2:40pm

Africa

FGM

International Women’s Day

land rights

Emergencies & Conflict

Food rights

HIV / AIDS

HungerFREE

Womens Rights

South Africa
We Can Express Ourselves.....
Narsingdi District Court, 15thJuly 2009 - two witnesses with different hearing needs were present in a case. The plaintiff hired an interpreter of Bangla Sign Language from Dhaka to interpret what...
by:
Effat Parvin
Tuesday, 21 February 2012 - 6:59pm
Disability

Bangladesh

Governance

Asia
It is easier said than done!
I was shocked and embarrassed to hold a condom in my hand in front a room full of people. I did not dare to look anywhere while I was holding it in my hand. I was wondering what am I supposed to do...
by:
Afrin Chowdhury
Sunday, 15 January 2012 - 12:25pm
activista

blogger swarm

HIV

HIV and AIDS

Bangladesh

HIV / AIDS

Asia
People still receive a raw deal
Bangladesh is a signatory to ‘United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities’, which formally recognises the rights of people with all types of disabilities. The ratification of...
by:
Tanveer Khan
Sunday, 15 January 2012 - 12:00am
AAB

ActionAid

child rights

children

human rights

Lunacy Act

mental health

mental health act

Rights

Bangladesh

Governance

Asia
My year-old cry turned into smile
“Aj dhaaner khete roudro chhayai, lukochurir khaela re bhai, lukochurir khaela...” - Rabindranath TagoreReturning to Dacope and Khamarkhola after over a year to areas that had been hit by cyclone...
by:
Farah Kabir
Sunday, 8 January 2012 - 4:23am
emergency

emergency response

food rights

Bangladesh

Emergencies & Conflict

Food rights

HungerFREE

Asia
I have a target of ZERO achievement
When I first came to know about HIV/AIDS, I could relate it to nothing but genocide. Nothing much has changed over the years, my point of view is somewhat the same till date. I mean what can possibly...
by:
Farah Maliha
Wednesday, 21 December 2011 - 8:01pm
AIDS

HIV

HIV and AIDS

people living with HIV

Bangladesh

HIV / AIDS

Asia
Development without decent employment for youths with disabilities!
I was a fresh graduate when in 2006 I joined the Bangladesh chapter of ActionAid. My first assignment was to execute a project named ‘Creating Role Models of Youths with Disabilities in Corporate...
by:
Sayema Chowdhury
Tuesday, 20 December 2011 - 9:21pm
Disability

employment

Youth

youths

Bangladesh

Governance

Asia
Women farmers working for a fraction of the pay men get
Bangladesh has reduced poverty and improved living standards significantly in recent years despite the global economic recession and natural calamities. In spite of rising standards of living, some...
by:
Farah Maliha
Saturday, 15 October 2011 - 3:37pm
activista

BAD11

Farmer

farmers

food crisis

hunger

smallholder farmers

women

women farmers

World Food Day

Bangladesh

Food rights

HungerFREE

Womens Rights

Asia
Farmer: the undefined status by state
I came across a new word called ‘small farmer’ while reading the National Agricultural Policy, 1999 of the Government of Bangladesh. The term, ‘small farmer’, is not defined in the policy. It...
by:
Afrin Chowdhury
Sunday, 9 October 2011 - 7:22am
activista

Activista Blogger swarm

BAD11

hunger

World Food Day

Bangladesh

HungerFREE

Asia
Discovering 'smile' during flood
"Two mud houses are under flood water. I am living in a neighbour’s house and my parents are living in the makeshift house beside the roads"25 year-old Hashi Akhter tells us. She is a young...
by:
Afrin Chowdhury
Thursday, 8 March 2012 - 7:16am
Activista Bangladesh

Asia floods

blogger swarm

Campaign

Climate Change

Disaster Response

International Women’s Day

Bangladesh

Emergencies & Conflict

Womens Rights

Asia
Flood taking high toll on the poor of southwest coast
The heavy downpour of the last few weeks has triggered floods and water-logging in Satkhira, Khulna and Jessore districts displacing over 1.25 million people with colossal damage to crops,...
by:
Tanveer Khan
Wednesday, 24 August 2011 - 9:41am
Asia floods

disaster

disaster risk reduction

emergency

emergency response

flood

floods

humanitarian

humanitarian response

Humanrights

response

Bangladesh

Emergencies & Conflict

Asia