Four years at sea, now just metres from shore: ‘living hell’ of stranded UAE ship
Five seafarers are stuck in limbo on a beached tanker after a long, terrifying ordeal of abandonment
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‘Fighting for life’: Bangladesh shrimp farmers destitute in wake of cyclone
Natural disaster compounded by the collapse of a lucrative export during the pandemic has thrust people into poverty
Read more‘Back empty-handed’: Bangladeshis cut off from jobs abroad face rising poverty
Whole communities supported by overseas work are at risk of extreme poverty after the pandemic forced thousands home
Read more‘The river is our home’: Bangladeshi boatmen mourn their receding waters
Decreased flows caused by water-hungry neighbours, especially India, are damaging river communities
• All photographs by Kaamil Ahmed
Read more‘We lay like corpses’: Bangladesh’s 1970s rape camp survivors speak out
Award-winning documentary Rising Silence preserves the testimony of some of the 200,000 women abducted during the country’s war of independence
Read moreThe Bangladeshi crab farmers battling climate crisis – and pirates
With rising seas swallowing their land and kidnappings a regular hazard, families scraping a living farming crab and shrimp in one of the world’s largest mangrove forests are fighting to survive
Read moreThe rise and rise of Bangladesh – but is life getting any better?
The country has undergone an economic miracle in recent years, albeit at huge cost to its garment workers. But things are finally starting to improve for them
Read moreOxfam criticises World Bank for backing deregulated labour markets
World Development Report dismisses concern about growing income inequality, say critics
Read more‘We cannot go back’: grim future facing Rohingya one year after attacks
Food is dwindling and agencies warn of ‘lost generation’ of children growing up without school
Read moreRana Plaza, five years on: safety of workers hangs in balance in Bangladesh
Progress has been made but fire safety initiatives are soon to end, unions are being stifled and wages are still the lowest in the world
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