I hear wailing horn of the ambulance losing to sirens from a heavy jeep hoisting the flag of Bangladesh and being escorted by special order protocol men carrying walky-talkies, dust masks and khaki...
Last week I travelled to Lebanon to meet some of the other Syrian people forced to flee the conflict and seek refuge there.There are now more than 360,000 Syrian refugees in Lebanon, and the number...
Being a non-government human rights-based development organisation, we, ActionAid always prefers to play the role of facilitator in bringing change and supplement and complement the government’s...
In the old part of the Dhaka city, buildings stand only a foot away from each other. Engulfing the narrow streets, these houses have weakened with age and without any renovation efforts. Lalbag,...
"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...
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...
“I could not eat this morning. My mother did not cook yet.” – says 6-year old Lima waiting in queue to receive food supplies from ActionAid. She lives in Tala which is still submerged in flood water...
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,...
The year 2010 was the last year of ActionAid Bangladesh’s (AAB) third Country Strategy Paper (CSP-III) titled “Equality, Citizenship and Justice”. Review of the CSP-III and formulation of the CSP-IV...
