Human rights groups slam draft UN plans to send #Rohingya to barren island
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A document drawn up this month by the World Food Programme (WFP), the UN’s food aid arm, and seen by Reuters, has revealed how the agency supplied the Bangladeshi government with detailed plans of how it could provide for thousands of Rohingya being transported to the island on a voluntary basis.
Deluge turns to dearth for Bangladesh as age-old water woes take new form | Emma Graham-Harrison and SM Atik | Global development | The Guardian
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For the first time, the Bangladeshi government is considering declaring some of the country’s smallest districts officially “water stressed”, according to Professor Chowdhury Sarwar Jahan, a prominent hydrologist at the University of Rajshahi.
The region has been shaped by struggles with water for centuries, battles focused mostly on holding it back and surviving flooding, cyclones and rising seas. But now shifting weather patterns have brought a new challenge: dealing with scarcity.
In parts of the country, a combination of shifting monsoon patterns, rising temperatures and a surge in the construction of wells that is draining ground water levels has left some villages seriously short of water. Dhaka wants to make the crisis official.
“The government is planning to declare a water stress area for the first time,” says Jahan, who is also a member of the government’s groundwater task force.
He is working on a research project across a number of local councils, known as unions in Bangladesh. He is collecting data and exploring possible solutions, before the government makes the final decision to go ahead with an announcement that he fears will “cause some panic”.
Bangladeshi government ends rescue operations in collapsed building - World Socialist Web Site
Pressé de sortir de l’attention médiatique internationale, craignant que ce désastre soit une « mauvaise pub » pour l’activité manufacturière, le gouvernement accélère les opérations de déblaiement et commence a travailler avec du gros matériel alors que des centaines de personnes sont toujours coincées sous les débris et qu’il peut potentiellement rester des survivants. L’objectif est d’en finir au plus vite pour détourner les regards.
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Bangladeshi government ends rescue operations in collapsed building
By Sarath Kumara
1 May 2013
On Monday, the Awami League-led government in Bangladesh has wound up rescue operations at the site of last week’s building collapse that killed at least 380 people and left many others trapped in the rubble. Rescue workers, who had previously been carefully picking through the wreckage to find survivors, have begun using heavy equipment, including hydraulic cranes, heightening the risk of crushing anyone who remains alive.