bKash has reunited with the 'Ashshash' project implemented by Winrock International, supported by the Swiss Embassy in Bangladesh, to support men and women who have escaped human trafficking. This project aims to facilitate 6,000 survivors with financial assistance through bKash till 2027 to provide economic rehabilitation, improve the quality of
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Trafficking, habitat loss spell doom for Bangladesh’s hoolock gibbons
On Oct. 8 this year, police in Bangladesh recovered an endangered western hoolock gibbon from a passenger bus in the Chunati area of the Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar highway. They also arrested two suspected wildlife traffickers, who were later convicted in court and sentenced to a year in prison and fined 10,000
Govt indifference deprives the trafficked of compensation
Fourteen-year-old Priti Pyne was returning from school in Basra village in South 24 Parganas, West Bengal, when she and a friend came across a cold-drink seller selling an attractive-looking drink. The moment the girls sipped it, however, they felt dizzy. When they woke up, it was on a Delhi-bound train
Human Trafficking: Police to submit report against Evan on 15 July
A Dhaka court has fixed July 15 for the submission of investigation report against national award winning dancer and choreographer Evan Shahriar Sohag on charges of being involved in human trafficking ring. The report was scheduled to be submitted on Tuesday. But the investigating agency could not submit the CID report.
264 Bangladeshis rescued from Mediterranean Sea
Tunisian authorities on Thursday rescued 264 Bangladeshis, along with three Egyptian nationals, from the Mediterranean Sea, who attempted to sail from Libya to Europe. According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM) the migrants were placed in quarantine at a hotel on the Tunisian island of Djerba. Tunisia's coastguard said the migrants
4 women traffickers remanded for five days
A Dhaka court Wednesday granted five-day remand to four people, including Ashraful Mandal alias Boss Rafi, one of the main ringleaders of the international women trafficking gang. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Begum Yasmin Ara granted the remand when investigating officer of the case Mohammad Mohiuddin Farooq produced them before the court with