‘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
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‘We will break every bone’: Islamist leaders threaten Bangladeshi lawyer
Sultana Kamal, chair of Transparency International Bangladesh, angered hardline Islamists by defending installation of statue outside Dhaka’s supreme court
Read more‘Global gag rule’ jeopardises future of Asia health initiatives, campaigners say
Funding for programmes from sanitation to nutrition will be subject to Trump’s far-reaching order, with huge implications for family planning providers
Read moreA lifeline for Bangladesh’s poorest, and Congolese rape victims search for justice
Bangladesh scheme delivers financial support and long-term prosperity; plus, a battle against sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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