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A Bat-Borne Virus Is Poised to Become a Pandemic in Bangladesh. Can We Stop It?

Nipah virus is one of eight diseases that the World Health Organization has identified as epidemic threats in need of prioritization, and ways to curb it are running thin.

Steven Bedard

The Great Land Swap

Three years after India and Bangladesh exchanged exclaves to simplify the world's most complex border, many who chose to move rather than to change their citizenship find that their prospects are not what they'd hoped.

Robin Hemley

A young child stands under a shelter as monsoon rains hit on August 28th, 2018, in Unchiprang refugee camp, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Tuesday marked the one-year anniversary since a wave of violence forced more than 720,000 Rohingya to flee into the Cox's Bazar district. United Nations investigators said on Monday that Myanmar's army had carried out genocide against the Rohingya in Rakhine state, and that its top military figures must be investigated for crimes against minorities across the country. The U.N. report accused Myanmar's military of murders, imprisonments, enforced disappearances, torture, rape, and other forms of sexual violence in Rakhine state, all of which constitute crimes against humanity.

News in Brief

Viewfinder: Monsoon Rains Hit Refugee Camps One Year After Thousands of Rohingya Fled Into Bangladesh

A young child stands under a shelter as monsoon rains hit on August 28th, 2018, in Unchiprang refugee camp, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.

Pacific Standard Staff

People scramble to reach the roof of an overcrowded train at a station in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on August 20th, 2018. Crowds rushed home from the capital city to be with friends and family during the annual holiday of Eid al-Adha, also known as the Festival of Sacrifice, celebrated by Muslims worldwide.

News in Brief

Viewfinder: Returning Home for Eid al-Adha in Bangladesh

People scramble to reach the roof of an overcrowded train at a station in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on August 20th, 2018.

Pacific Standard Staff

A Bangladeshi child lights a candle to mark International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples in Dhaka on August 8th, 2018. International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples takes place on August 9th to promote and protect the rights of indigenous communities and cultures.

News in Brief

Viewfinder: Celebrating Indigenous Communities in Bangladesh

A Bangladeshi child lights a candle to mark International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples in Dhaka on August 8th, 2018.

Pacific Standard Staff

New United States citizen Mosammat Rasheda Akter, originally Bangladesh, holds her seven-month-old daughter Fahmida as she sings the U.S. National Anthem during naturalization ceremony at the New York Public Library on July 3rd, 2018, in New York City. Two hundred immigrants from 50 countries became citizens during the ceremony.

News in Brief

Viewfinder: New United States Citizens Recite the National Anthem

New United States citizen Mosammat Rasheda Akter, originally Bangladesh, holds her seven-month-old daughter Fahmida as she sings the U.S. National Anthem during naturalization ceremony at the New York Public Library on July 3rd, 2018.

Pacific Standard Staff

Field Notes: Morning at the Buriganga River in Bangladesh

Dhaka, Bangladesh: Momin Mohammad, a leather worker, brushes his teeth by a canal near his home in the city's polluted Hazaribagh neighborhood. Each day, tanneries dump 22,000 liters of toxic waste into the Buriganga, the capital city's main river and key water supply.

Pacific Standard Staff

A Rohingya boy chopping wood from a tree stump he freed from soil near Kutupalong-Balukhali refugee camp in Bangladesh.

Environment

Bangladesh’s Forests: A Point of Tension and Connection Between Incoming Rohingya and Locals

As hundreds of thousands of Myanmar muslims seek safety in the country, they have little choice but to overburden the jungles on which their livelihoods depend.

Kaamil Ahmed

In southern Bangladesh, soil embankments protect rise paddies from the Kapotaksma (left) and Shakbaria (right) rivers during the rainy season, but the heavy storm surges frequently destroy them.

Field Notes: The Soil Embankments of Gazipara, Bangladesh

Gazipara, Bangladesh: In southern Bangladesh, soil embankments protect rise paddies from the Kapotaksma and Shakbaria rivers during the rainy season, but the heavy storm surges frequently destroy them.

Pacific Standard Staff

Rohingya Muslim refugees who were stranded after leaving Myanmar walk toward the Balukhali refugee camp in Bangladesh's Ukhia district on November 2nd, 2017. More than 600,000 Rohingya have arrived in Bangladesh since a military crackdown in Myanmar in August triggered an exodus.

Social Justice

Viewfinder: Refugees Trek Through Bangladesh

Rohingya Muslim refugees who were stranded after leaving Myanmar walk toward the Balukhali refugee camp in Bangladesh's Ukhia district on November 2nd, 2017.

Pacific Standard Staff