Stories written by Naimul Haq
Naimul Haq is a Bangladesh-based journalist with well over a decade of experience. Currently, Naimul is the joint news editor and head of the English news department at Jamuna Television. Formerly, Naimul was a special correspondent for online news agency The-Editor, a senior staff correspondent for Bangladesh News 24 Hours and a senior staff reporter for The Daily Star in addition to other freelancing positions. Naimul is also a consultant with UNICEF Bangladesh and has extensive experience specialising in health and environmental issues with various international organisations, including the World Health Organisation, the Reuters Foundation and the World Bank.

Bangladesh Demands Climate Justice

By Naimul Haq
Mosammet Monwara walks more than three km every alternate day to fetch water for her family of five in a heavy earthen pitcher.
Arzu Begum testifies at the climate hearings for women in the deltaic village of Char Nongolia. Credit: Naimul Haq/IPS

CLIMATE CHANGE: Bangladeshi Women on the Brink

By Naimul Haq
Char Nongolia village is a basket case when it comes to climate change impacts such as increasing salinity, frequent cyclones, tidal surges, erratic rainfall and extended droughts.
Women wait expectantly on loan disbursement day in Kishoreganj district. Credit: Naimul Haq/IPS

BANGLADESH: Reducing Poverty Hinges on Microcredit – Yunus

By Naimul Haq
Reducing poverty in Bangladesh will depend critically on sustaining the successes of the country’s microcredit (MC) programmes, says Muhammad Yunus, the economist who shared the 2006 Nobel peace prize with his creation, Grameen Bank.
Garo tribal women take a tea break from forest patrol. Credit: Naimul Haq/IPS

BANGLADESH: Tribal Women Take on Forest Ranger Roles

By Naimul Haq
Jasinta Nokrek loves nothing better than to range through the dense Modhupur forest, the way her Garo tribal ancestors have always done.
Rani displays a fresh batch of the 'toy sweets' that lifted her family out of poverty. Credit: Naimul Haq/IPS

Bangladesh Offers Lessons in Microcredit Management

By Naimul Haq
Phulo Rani Pal checks for loose dust around her open backyard kitchen. It’s time to prepare the sweets she supplies to vendors and it will not do for her products to be contaminated.
A beneficiary of the microfinance programme. Credit: Naimul Haq/IPS.

BANGLADESH: Women Raise Own Funds for Microfinance

By Naimul Haq
Amidst despair and poverty, women in some remote villages of Bangladesh are raising money and lending it to each other through a unique microfinance programme launched by a local non-government organisation.
At a shipbreaking yard. Credit: Mahmud/map

BANGLADESH: Ship Breakers Defy Court Ruling on Toxic Vessels

By Naimul Haq
The ship breaking companies of Bangladesh continue to import highly toxic foreign vessels despite a two-year-old ban, and are also defying a court order to ensure workers’ safety and implement environmentally sound practices, a group of lawyers says.

BANGLADESH: Women Defy Islamic Clergy

By Naimul Haq
Bangladeshi women are pushing government to implement the recently approved National Women Development Policy (NWDP) 2011, which has met with strong resistance from Islamic clergy.
Sufia (right) leads a lesson in sanitation. Credit: Naimul Haq

BANGLADESH: W.A.S.H. Keeps Communities Clean

By Naimul Haq
One sunny afternoon, 19-year-old Sufia Aktar presides over a courtyard gathering of housewives discussing the use of safe water, a hygienic environment, and personal cleanliness. It is the last of such gatherings for Sufia, who will soon leave, knowing it was "mission accomplished."
Garment worker at a Bangladesh factory. Credit: B A Sujan/Map/IPS

BANGLADESH-LIBYA: Garment Industry Pledges to Employ Evacuated Labourers

By Naimul Haq
Bangladesh's garment factories and overseas recruiting agencies have pledged to employ a substantial number of Bangladeshi expatriates returning from politically volatile Libya, following the violent crackdown on opposition forces by Muammar Gaddafi's regime there.
Munni working at her factory. Credit: Labid M Ishtiaque

BANGLADESH: Women Find a Way Out of Poverty

By Naimul Haq
Twenty-one years ago, Munni Akter and her husband Shafiuddin could hardly afford two meals a day.
Every child counts in immunisation, officials say. Credit: Naimul Haq/IPS

HEALTH-BANGLADESH: Equity Key to Cutting Child Mortality

By Naimul Haq
Poverty remains one of the problems of Bangladesh, but it has made, and continues to make, key progress when it comes to preventing deaths among its children.

BANGLADESH: Solar Advocates See A Sunshine Nation

By Naimul Haq
Good news may sometimes be hard to come by in this South Asian country, but for solar power advocates here, Bangladesh has been a sunshine nation for the last few years.
Sonia, a pupil at Hazi Ibrahim Government Primary School in Labag, Dhaka. Credit: Shafiqul Alam Kiron/IPS

BANGLADESH: School’s In To Drive Poverty Out

By Naimul Haq
Since her admission in January 2009 into Kurmitola government primary school in the Khilkhet district of capital Dhaka, 10- year-old Anju Aktar has never missed a day of class. In fact, Aktar’s mid-term report card shows that she is one of the school’s top students.
A group of drug users in a Dhaka suburb. Credit: Shafiqul Alam Kiron, Map/IPS

BANGLADESH: Dose of Vigilance Helps Manage HIV, AIDS

By Naimul Haq
It is one of the poorest countries in the world, has a low literacy rate, and is next door to at least two countries that have a considerable portion of their respective populations with HIV and AIDS. Yet even having a large migrant population has not made Bangladesh a hot spot for HIV and AIDS.
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