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Tea Industry: Bonanza for owners, misery for workers

Tea Industry: Bonanza for owners, misery for workers

Kairi also pointed out that legal remedy to tea workers deprivations have tactfully been kept away from them. “A worker has to go to the labour court located in Chittagong in case of a legal fight, which is nearly impossible for a low-paid labour,” he said. “Neither...

The Chittagong Hill Tracts: Man-Nature Nexus Torn

The Chittagong Hill Tracts: Man-Nature Nexus Torn

"The Chittagong Hill Tracts: Man-Nature Nexus Torn" is a report on the state of environment in the CHT. Once part of a mega-diversity zone in South Asia, the CHT has lost its majestic look. It is now faced with an ecological disaster. The hills are barren...

Shores of Tear

Shores of Tear

Together with the Sundarbans, the world’s largest contiguous mangrove forest, the coast of Bangladesh is one of the top wonders in nature. 2013, English, 134 pages, Paperback Tk.200 / US$5 Together with the Sundarbans, the world’s largest contiguous...

Energy Challenges and Phulbari Crisis

Energy Challenges and Phulbari Crisis

A 240-page compendium, “Energy Challenges and Phulbari Crisis” intended for the laity in the first place, is an outcome of SEHD’s investigation and involvement into the controversial Phulbari open-cut coalmine. The aggressive approaches of the Bangladesh...

The Environmental Impacts of the Pulp and Paper Industry in Bangladesh

The Environmental Impacts of the Pulp and Paper Industry in Bangladesh

Karnaphuli Paper Mill (KPM), the oldest and largest integrated pulp and paper manufacturer in Bangladesh and a state owned enterprise, has been regularly dumping massive quantities of liquid waste into the Karnaphuli River since it started its operations in 1953. A...

Bangladesh: Land, Forest and Forest People (3rd edition)

Bangladesh: Land, Forest and Forest People (3rd edition)

Bangladesh is amazingly green. However, at the same time, it is a forest-poor country. Officially, 18% of the country (2.6 million hectares) is public forestland. 2013, English 284 pages(3rd edition), Paperback | Tk.300 / US$15 Bangladesh is amazingly...

Inception Seminar

Inception Seminar

"Many ethnic communities of Bangladesh are constitutionally and statistically invisible." - Dr. Hossain Zillur Rahman Dr. Hossain Zillur Rahman, executive chairman, Power and Participation Research Centre (PPRC) said that many of the ethnic communities of Bangladesh...

Inception Seminar Held

Inception Seminar Held

The Society for Environment and Human Development (SEHD) organized an inception seminar for the project, "Mapping and capacity building of tea workers and little-known ethnic communities of Bangladesh" on 8 September 2013 in Dhaka.  "Many ethnic...