Should period put a period on childhood?
11 October 2026
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International Day of The Girl Child 2026
Bangladesh’s child marriage paradox
11 October 2026
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International Day of The Girl Child 2026
How the system fails abused girls
11 October 2026
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International Day of The Girl Child 2026
The cost of keeping girls in school
11 October 2026
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International Day of The Girl Child 2026
Engineering resilience into every structure
5 October 2026
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Resilient Homes
Building Better Begins with Making Better
5 October 2026
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Resilient Homes
Use of Suitable Bricks and Blocks in Building Construction
5 October 2026
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Resilient Homes
Housing a changing Bangladesh
5 October 2026
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Resilient Homes
A blueprint for Bangladesh's manufacturing future
4 October 2026
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Supplements
Rooftop solar is turning property owners into power sellers
4 October 2026
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Your Property Guru
Through the eyes of young exiles
When Maya Rostam first asked her mother if she could join a new photography course in the Kawergosk refugee camp where they lived, she got a resounding “No.”
24 June 2016
Asia's first trans clinic in Thailand
Kanattsanan “Mukk” Dokput was 27 when he sank the first needle full of black market testosterone into his thigh.
24 June 2016
Saving motherhood
A woman can bleed to death in a couple of hours, or even less, after giving birth. In rural areas, where hospitals may be days
24 June 2016
Teaching kids to sow and reap
At Reap Benefit’s charming office in an old bungalow in Bangalore is a quote by Mozart, written with chalk at the entrance: “Be silent if you choose but when it is necessary, speak—and speak in such a way that people will remember it.”
24 June 2016
From waste to health insurance
Gamal Albinsaid, 24, a young graduate of Brawijaya University’s School of Medicine in Malang, East Java started a unique movement in his native Indonesia – enabling people without health insurance to access medical services in exchange for collecting trash for recycling.
24 June 2016
Maya apa knows it all
The Maya App is perhaps one of the biggest initiatives undertaken to create a virtual safe space for people from all walks of
24 June 2016
At long last, home
When the Syrian army draft papers came in, his father told him it was time to get out.
24 June 2016
A prescription for access to medicine
When Waleed Shawky came across a large cache of donated medicine in a Cairo mosquein 2010, he was awestruck. The pharmacist had long wondered where the E£1 billion (US$112 million) of medicine that is wasted every year in Egypt goes.
24 June 2016
Small streams make big rivers
An innovative method of facilitating charitable donations by rounding up to the nearest euro at store checkouts
24 June 2016
A roving shelter for the homeless
As he was walking on the streets of Melbourne, entrepreneur and business coach Simon Rowe was moved by the sight of a man trying to sleep in a concrete doorway on a busy street in the middle of the day. He began to wonder: how could he help the homeless people get a safe and comfortable sleep?
24 June 2016
Stories for a BETTER WORLD
Today is Impact Journalism Day, and 55 newspapers unite to celebrate change makers everywhere.
24 June 2016
May you rest in peace
The biggest challenge with Fahim was to introduce new people to him, for he knew most of them. Fahim thrived among friends and he was seldom without them, and they in turn loved him, evidence of which was aplenty, as hundreds wept like children at the news of his passing away. He joined when we were weak and vulnerable and left us a winner on all counts.
13 June 2016
"We need to build our local capacity for project financing"
What is the goal of this workshop on project financing?
30 May 2016
MASTERING PROJECT FINANCE
Bangladesh, being one of the fastest growing emerging countries, has immense potential for macro-economic development. To cope
30 May 2016
"Good governance is the key to a project's success "
What are the major challenges in project financing for countries like Bangladesh?
30 May 2016
Saving the lives of mothers and babies
The International Day of the Midwife, celebrated every year on May 5th, offers an opportunity to celebrate the contributions of
4 May 2016
Big and Better Data Revolutionizing Development
Lessons learned from the Millennium Development Goals have made it clear that there is a need for better data to monitor and
27 April 2016
“BBS can provide sufficient data for 13 of the17 proposed SDGs”
It was a rewarding experience talking to the Director General of BBS, former Director General of Disaster Management, Mohammah Abul
27 April 2016
Enchanted Delta
For sometime Nadeem had not been able to sit down at his writing-table. He caressed with loving fingers the diary in which he had recorded his experience of the Pakistani genocide of the Bangalees in 1971. He was barely twelve then. His parents had put him in the
26 March 2016
Roaring Liberation
What would I do with the spring when mournfully cries the cuckoo, when flowers are not in bloom?
26 March 2016