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Slideshow: Treating Malnutrition in Bangladesh's Capital

Photographer Julie Remy documented life and Médecins Sans Frontières' work in the Dhaka slum of Kamrangirchar, a rapidly expanding settlement on the banks of a badly polluted river where health needs are significant and often go...

Bangladesh: Slum conditions pose a hazard to health

It is still early in the morning, but the narrow alleyways of Kamrangirchar are already bustling with activity. The screeching sound of wood being sawed, the clunk of metal being hammered into shape, and the cacophony of small...

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Testimonies from Tal

Bangladesh / 10.06.08

The Rohingyas are a Muslim minority from the border region between Bangladesh and Rakhine State in western Myanmar (formerly Burma). Their accounts of life in Myanmar include severe human rights abuses: restrictions on movement and on marriage; forced labour; land and assets confiscation; violence and arbitrary arrest.

Ten thousand unregistered Rohingya men, women and children have sought refuge in Tal makeshift camp, near Teknaf, south east Bangladesh. Most people in Tal were originally formally recognised refugees living in an official UNHCR-administered camp. They were then forcefully repatriated to Myanmar, but were later forced to flee the ongoing persecution in the country again.

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