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The Government of Bangladesh, with World Bank support, launched the Income Support Program for the Poorest (ISPP) in 2015. Over the course of implementation, ISPP provided cash to 600,000 poor ...
The World Bank-supported Reaching Out of School Children (ROSC II) project in Bangladesh has provided primary education to 735,000 disadvantaged children, half of them girls, from underserved rural ...
Children make up a quarter of workers in Bangladesh’s leather industry, survey finds - Children as young as eight work long shifts every day of the week for £30 a month ...
United States and other foreign donor cutbacks in humanitarian aid have worsened the already existing education crisis for 437,000 school-age children in Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh.
Dhaka, April 28 -- UNICEF, WHO and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, on Monday said nearly half a million children in Bangladesh miss full immunization despite 81.6 % coverage.
Despite frequent discussions on climate change and development, we often overlook a pressing issue in Bangladesh and similar ...
UNICEF, supported by the European Union and in partnership with The Daily Star, organized a roundtable on May 13, 2025, titled “A New Bangladesh for Children: A Stronger Social Budget to Bring ...
Bangladesh is one of the countries most susceptible to climate change in the world and contributes the least, which means that children are becoming more vulnerable to communities turning to extreme ...
The eight-nation region, comprising Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Maldives, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, is home to more than one-quarter of the world’s children. 02:24 ...
Schools shut for 33 million children as intense heatwave sweeps Bangladesh. South Asian country is battling hottest April in three decades ...
More than a quarter of the workers in Bangladesh’s small leather workshops are children, according to a new survey, highlighting the grim situation of child labour in the South Asian country ...