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In Berlin haben Agrarminister aus aller Welt darüber beraten, wie der Hunger bekämpft werden kann. Die Lage ist dramatisch. Alle Versuche, die Ernährung krisenfest zu machen, sind gescheitert. Und nun?#GrüneWoche #Agrarministerkonferenz #Klimawandel #Ernährung #Hunger #Afrika #Bangladesh #Krieg #Corona
Größte Nahrungsmittelkrise seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg | DW | 21.01.2023
2022 has been one of the deadliest years for Rohingya #refugees trying to flee the camps in #Bangladesh.
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🇮🇹 Während 96 Pers. aus dem #Iran & #Afghanistan mit 1 Segelboot den Salento erreichten, 280 Pers. aus #Syrien, #Bangladesh & #Ägypten von GDF & GC nach Porto Empedocle gebracht wurden, müssen #SeaEye4 & #LiveSupportSAR mit zus. 250 Geretteten bis nach #Livorno.
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⚖️ Wichtiges EGMR Urteil, das @aditusNGO für den in #Bangladesh🇧🇩 verfolgten Journalisten S.H. erkämpfte. Und nicht nur für ihn, auch für hunderte andere die dem beschleunigten Asylverfahren in #Malta🇲🇹 ausgeliefert sind.
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Mooi, excuses voor het slavernijverleden. Maar dan moeten we ook ophouden met moderne slavernij, die ook in Nederland nog bestaat, aldus Luuk Miedema. (...)
De volgorde is in het dagelijks leven eenvoudig. Soms gedraag je je op een manier die niet deugt. Je ziet in dat dat echt niet meer kan. En daarna maak je excuses. O ja, voordat je excuses maakt is er nog één belangrijke tussenstap: je stopt met dat foute gedrag. Want als je doorgaat, zijn je excuses niet veel waard. (...)
Dicht bij huis kunnen we al slavernij tegenkomen. Volgens een onderzoek van de Universiteit van Tilburg uit 2019 leven er nu zo’n 5000 mensen in moderne slavernij in Nederland. De slachtoffers zijn te vinden in de landbouw, horeca, huishoudens en prostitutie.
De echt massale slavernij hebben wij Nederlanders tegenwoordig uitbesteed. We hebben onze goedkope telefoons en kleding te danken aan slavenarbeid ver weg. Denk aan de kinderen die de mijnen ingaan voor waardevolle metalen of aan de kinderen en volwassenen die in Pakistan en Bangladesh kleding in elkaar naaien. Het werk van de Aziatische arbeiders, die het WK in Qatar mogelijk maakten, was niks meer of minder dan moderne slavernij.
Het belangrijkste argument tegen de afschaffing van die slavernij is geld. (...)
Maar nu is er besloten dat we een slavernijmuseum gaan bouwen. Wellicht kunnen we in dat museum alvast een zaaltje reserveren waarin we onze verantwoordelijkheid voor de slavernij van 2022 in beeld brengen. Ons nageslacht wil te zijner tijd vast wel excuses aanbieden voor die slavernij. Tenminste, als die excuses niet te veel geld gaan kosten.
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JUST IN - #Bangladesh's national power grid collapses, causing a blackout for 140 million citizens.
Apart from parts of the county's northwest, "the rest of the country is without power," an official says.
Planted in raft, which floats on top of flood water
When plant decomposed they release nutrients !
#floods #ClimateAction #Climatecrisis #Agricuoture #Farming #GlobalWarming #Bangladesh
The Western media accuses #China of luring us into a debt trap. #TuckerCarlson says environmental, social and corporate governance programs killed us. Everybody blames the #Rajapaksas, the corrupt political dynasty that ruled us until massive protests by angry Sri Lankans chased them out last month.
But from where I’m standing, ultimate blame lies with the Western-dominated neoliberal system that keeps developing countries in a form of debt-fueled #colonization. The system is in crisis, its shaky foundations exposed by the tumbling dominoes of the #Ukraine #war, resulting in food and fuel #scarcity, the #pandemic and looming insolvency and #hunger rippling across the world.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/15/opinion/international-world/sri-lanka-economic-collapse.html #srilanka #economy #crisis #imf #pakistan #bangladesh #tunisia #ghana #southafrica #brazil #argentina #sudan #uk #usa #russia #india #oil #energy
যারা 'গরু চোর' বলে চেচাচ্ছেন, তারা আরেকটু ভালো করে সময় নিয়ে তদন্ত করে দেখুন তো... পুরো প্রসেসটায় কোথায় 'গরু চুরি'টা হয়েছে? খবরে তো প্রকাশ রাজস্থান, উত্তর প্রদেশের মতো রাজ্য আর পশ্চিমবঙ্গের কোন বাজার থেকে গরু কিনে তা বর্ডার পেরিয়ে বাংলাদেশে চালান করা হত। তার আগে কি কোনো কৃষক বা গাভীপালকের বাড়ি থেকে কি গরু টুকুশ করে কিডন্যাপ করে চুরি করা হত? যে গরু চোর? 😆 হ্যাঁ, আপনারা বলতে পারেন 'ট্যাক্স চোর', যদি এটা সরকার দ্বারা নিয়ন্ত্রিত হয়, আর এক্ষেত্রে ট্যাক্স ফাঁকি দেবার জন্য এসব প্রোটেকশন মানি টানি দিয়ে চালান করা হত। আর যদি এটা চালান করাই বেআইনি হয়, সেক্ষেত্রে বলা যেতে পারে 'গরু পাচারকারী'। সুতরাং আপনারা টেকনিক্যালি ভুল টার্মিনলজি বলছেন, এই সমস্যা অশিক্ষিত 'ভেড়ুয়া' জনতাকে নিয়ে, কেউ একজন আপনাদের কানের ভিতরে ঢুকিয়ে দুটো ঠাপ মেরে দিল... আর আপনারাও সেই একই সুরে লাফাতে শুরু করলেন। আমার আমেরিকান বন্ধুরা যা বলে তা দেখে মনে হয়, আমেরিকান বর্তমান জেনারেশন কিন্তু এখনও এই গভার্নমেন্টের অতিসক্রিয়তা আর ট্যাক্সেশনের ব্যাপারে যথেষ্টই হস্টাইল, ওরা বলে, "ট্যাক্সেশন ইস থেফট্"। হ্যাঁ, মানে যে আমেরিকানদের মত করবার জন্য দাড়িওয়ালা দাদু সেনায় "অগ্নিপথ" স্কিম এনেছেন। 😆 যুক্তি দিয়ে ঠিকমত কাউকে অপমানটুকু আপনারা করতে পারেন না। 😆 বিএসএফ আর সিআরপিএফের যে সব কর্তা এই পাচার আর ট্যাক্স চুরির সাথে যুক্ত ছিলেন, তাদের 'অগাধ দেশপ্রেম' হঠাৎ ফুকুৎ করে উবে গেল কিকরে? অনুব্রতকে গ্রেফতার করার সময় সিবিআইকে কেন্দ্রীয় আধাসামরিক বাহিনী আনতে হল কেন? সিবিআইয়ের নিজস্ব 'সোয়াট' টিম নেই কেন? এফবিআইয়েরও তো নিজস্ব সোয়াট টিম আছে, যাদেরকে এরম সুইপ অ্যান্ড ক্যাপচার অপারেশনের জন্য লাগানো যায়। সে আপনি সিআরপিএফকে শহর ঘেরার কাজে লাগাতেই পারেন, কিন্তু মূল অপারেশনের জন্য কোনো সোয়াট টিম থাকবে না? এমনিতেই তো সিআরপিএফ আর বিএসএফের মতো সেনা সংগঠনের নামে দুর্নীতির অভিযোগ ভুরি ভুরি! সিবিআই, ইডির মতো কেন্দ্রীয় সংস্থাকে তালা ভাঙার জন্য চাবিওয়ালাকে ডাকতে হয় কেন? নিজস্ব টেকনিক্যাল ডিভিশন আর স্পেশ্যাল টুলস্ নিয়ে টেকনিশিয়ান রেডি থাকেনা কেন? লজ্জা লজ্জা! 😆 ডিআরডিও সারাদিন শুধু রকেট আর ড্রোন বানালে হবে? 😆
আর বাংলাদেশিদের বলব, গরুটা একটু কম খান তো... আজকাল বড্ড বেশী গরু খাচ্ছেন আপনারা, এজন্যই এরম হচ্ছে। হাজি হোটেলে মাছ খান। 😆😏 #cow #ed #cbi #notcowtheft #wrongterminology #idiots #tax #trafficking #bangali #bengali #Bangladesh #India #drdo #fbi #swat
Two years of the #COVID-19 #pandemic have transformed the landscape of labor in the United States. Out of a workforce of 153 million, well over a quarter of workers quit their jobs in 2021, and the trend continued into 2022. Propelled by rage and desperation and amplified by a notorious #Reddit page, anti-work sentiments achieved widespread exposure in late 2021, at the same time that economists were talking about a supposed “labor shortage.”
One would think that these conditions would be favorable for labor organizing. Yet despite high expectations, a real strike wave has yet to emerge. The breakthrough vote to create the first #Amazon #union inspired optimism about the prospects for a renewed #labor movement in the United States, but we are a long way from a return to the heyday of union organizing—and when labor unrest does emerge, it may take entirely different forms, as foreshadowed by “the great resignation.”
What does it mean to be “anti-work”? How should we understand today’s anti-work sentiments in their historical context? How is workplace #resistance changing alongside #work itself, and what strategies are likely to serve us in these new conditions?
https://de.crimethinc.com/2022/05/10/anti-work-from-i-quit-to-we-revolt-strategizing-for-21st-century-labor-resistance #usa #economy #wealth #capitalism #society #strike #history #colonialism #china #india #russla #bangladesh #drugs #theatre
You see, my Western friends read stories like this, and then they go back to obsessing over the Kardashians or Wonder Woman or #JohnnyDepp or #Batman. They don’t understand yet. Because this is beyond the limits of what homo sapiens can really comprehend, the Event. That world is coming for them, too.
The analogy is often used to describe “climate change” of frogs in a boiling pot. It’s useful, but only to a certain degree. When the pot boils, they’re taken out and eaten. We were in a boiling pot, and now we’re at the stage where we’re about to get taken out and eaten. This is when things start to get really, really bad — really, really fast.
The way that I’ve come to think of the Event — a species that’s been around for 300,000 years now having altered the #climate in ways that haven’t happened for millions of years, triggering an Extinction Event — is this.
https://eand.co/the-age-of-extinction-is-here-some-of-us-just-dont-know-it-yet-7001f5e0c79a #heatwave #india #environment #spain #europe #fascism #crisis #pakistan #bangladesh #srilanka #war
Here are the 37 nations that chose not to condemn Russia's invasion of #Ukraine in a UN vote on March 2nd.
This is interesting as it is strongly suggestive of Russia's global allies.
#Russia #allies #unitednations #vote #unvote #Algeria #Angola #Armenia #Bangladesh #Belarus #Burundi #CentralAfricanRepublic #China #Congo #Cuba #EquatorialGuinea #Eritrea #India #Iran #lraq #Kazakhstan #Kyrgyzstan #Lao #Madagascar #Mali #Mongolia #Mozambique #Namibia #Nicaragua #NorthKorea #Pakistan #Senegal #SouthAfrica #SouthSudan #SriLanka #Sudan #Syria #Tajikistan #Uganda #Uzbekistan #Vietnam #Zimbabwe #maps #data
Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum, who was recently awarded the Soane Medal, explains why she only works in her home country in this exclusive interview.
Tabassum is known for designing buildings that use local materials and aim to improve the lives of low-income people in Bangladesh, where all her projects are based.
"The reason I've never really worked outside Bangladesh is the fact that wherever I work, I must understand that place, it is very important to me," Tabassum told Dezeen in a video call from her studio in Dhaka.
"To go somewhere and build something without having the full knowledge of it makes me quite uncomfortable," she added.
Marina Tabassum's designed the underground Museum of Independence in Dhaka. Photo is by FM Faruque Abdullah Shawon
As Tabassum feels the need to have a connection to the spaces she designs, she doesn't see any reason to create buildings outside of her home country.
"We have so much to do in Bangladesh, we have a lot of work that's there," she said. "I really do not feel the need to go anywhere else to look for work – we all have our own places to concentrate on."
"In a lifetime there's only so much you can do, so staying focused is probably more important," she continued.
Among her designs in Bangladesh are the country's Museum of Independence and the adjacent Independence Monument, as well as the Aga Khan Award-winning Bait Ur Rouf Mosque.
Architecture is a "social responsibility"
Tabassum grew up in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where she established her studio Marina Tabassum Architects (MTA), which she has led for the past 17 years.
Her childhood in the country has influenced her practice, with a number of her studio's projects aiming to create better homes and lives for people in Bangladesh, which has a high income inequality.
"I come from a country where I've grown up seeing this disparity between the rich and poor, and every single day when I get out of my house, you see this disparity," said Tabassum.
"I don't know about architects in other countries and how they should be doing it, but in my case, I encourage the younger generation of architects to come and work for the people who have no knowledge about architecture," she said.
"I think it's a social responsibility for us, especially in Bangladesh, where we can make our knowledge and our skills available to people which can really help better people's lives and living environment."
The Comfort Reverie building in Dhaka, where MTA is based. Photo is by FM Faruque Abdullah Shawon
With her architecture, Tabassum aims to create appropriate buildings with "a sense of place", something she believes has been lost as architecture has become more homogenous over the past 30 years.
"Every place has a uniqueness that through an evolutionary process has come to a point where it's the geography, the climate, the history, everything comes together and creates something which is very essential of a place," Tabassum said.
"I think especially during the very high-flying capitalist time in the 1990s, and even in the 1980s, where we were just building profusely all over the world in this capitalist endeavour, we lost that idea of uniqueness," she added.
"We are losing the value of the uniqueness of a place"
Tabassum studied at the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, at a school set up by the Texas A&M University, and graduated in the mid-90s – a time when, according to her, architecture was becoming increasingly homogenous.
"When I graduated from architecture in Dhaka, I saw the same thing," she said. "It's just stacks of floors, built very quickly – you just put glass on [buildings], everything is about aluminium and glass and that's it, the building is done. "
"It had no sense of the place and if you see the cities that were growing up during that time in China, or in the UAEs and the Arabian Peninsula, everything echoes that idea of globalisation, where everything is kind of standardised, fast-breed buildings," she added.
"To me, that really felt like we are losing the value of the uniqueness of a place."
Tabassum's Bait Ur Rouf Mosque is made from brick, a material traditionally used in Bangladesh. Photo is by Sandro Di Carlo Darsa
Instead, Tabassum aimed to find her own voice by designing using local materials. Many of her projects, including the Bait Ur Rouf Mosque, are constructed from brick – a common material in Bangladesh.
"I have tended to work with brick because it works with the climate, it ages very gracefully, in my opinion," the architect said.
"Instead of let's say concrete, which is not that great and especially in our weather – we have so much rain that within a few years the concrete ages quite poorly. But brick ages quite beautifully."
"Glass is not able to take enormous heat"
As architecture has become more global, she believes that buildings have also become less adapted to local climates.
"We've always focused on the idea that the building must be climatically appropriate, so that it's not dependent on any kind of artificial means, like air conditioning, only," she said.
"Which you don't see anymore when you have glass buildings because glass is not able to take enormous heat – it just turns into a greenhouse," she added.
"That's what's wrong with the kind of architecture where you take something from a cold country and bring it to a warm country like ours."
The Khudi Bari lets owners sleep on a higher level when needed. Photo is by FM Faruque Abdullah Shawon
Among the projects that Tabassum designed specifically for the Bangladeshi climate is Khudi Bari, modular houses that can be moved to help communities survive in Bangladesh's "waterscape," which is increasingly affected by flooding exacerbated by climate change.
"Khudi in Bengali means tiny and Bari is house, so these are really modular houses, especially for the landless," Tabassum explained.
"Bangladesh is all about water – it's a waterscape rather than landscape, there are so many different varieties of water bodies."
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There are essentially two types of people affected by the flooding in Bangladesh, according to the architect – people whose land is periodically flooded during the rainy season, and people who are continuously on the move because the land is constantly shifting.
The Khudi Bari houses were designed to be of use to both groups.
"Each one is quite different so we're trying to give them different solutions to these kinds of houses," Tabassum said.
"We deliver a modular structure which has two levels, so if you have flooding you can move yourself to the upper deck and save yourself and when the water recedes you can start living your life," she added.
"When you have to move, this is a lightweight flatpack system that you can take down and it's very low-cost, it's about £300 all together."
The modular Khudi Bari houses were designed to be disassembled and moved. Photo is by Asif Salman
The homes are built from bamboo and steel in order to make it as easy as possible for people to be able to source the materials and build the houses themselves.
Tabassum hopes to eventually be able to train steelworkers locally to make the steel joints needed for the building, which are currently supplied by the architects.
"We would like to make it in a way so that any steelworker in any location can make it," Tabassum said.
"But the rest of the material people source on their own so they can decide how big their house will be and what accessories it will have – there's a sense of ownership about it, which is important."
Designing for refugee camps requires understanding "definition of beauty"
As well as designing homes for those who have become displaced by flooding – a problem that is likely to increase as the climate crisis continues – Tabassum is also creating architecture for people who have been displaced from their country of origin.
Her studio is working with the World Food Programme to build food distribution centres in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar refugee camps, which house Rohingya refugees from Myanmar.
Designing for the camps, where nearly one million people live, comes with its own unique difficulties and limitations.
"A lot of things are not allowed," Tabassum explained. "You are not allowed to use any permanent materials, everything has to be temporary."
The Baharchora Aggregation Center is one of the buildings created for the World Food Programme. Photo is by Asif Salman
"You cannot build anything beautiful," she added. "So being an architect, you deal with beauty and aesthetics in many ways – it's what we have been taught."
"And now to go against that and design something that is so-called not-beautiful is a challenge, you have to work around that, you need to understand the definition of beauty – what is beauty?"
To create beautiful and practical temporary buildings the studio worked with bamboo, rather than more permanent materials.
"You have a very limited palette of materials but you try to create something out of that," Tabassum said.
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As Tabassum continues working on both her studio's regular projects – it is currently designing a hospital on the outskirts of Dhaka – and its designs for displaced people, she feels that people are at last taking action to help mitigate the climate crisis.
But above all, she believes there now needs to be a focus on collaboration.
"I think it's important to understand that we're living on one single planet, and the north and south are connected in every single way," she said.
"And the majority of the population of the world lives in the Global South. And so it is an enormous responsibility of the north and the south, equally, to come towards a resolution where it is about mitigating our existential crisis."
The main photograph is by Barry MacDonald.
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#Bangladesh : release Nusrat Shahrin Raka ⚓ https://www.accessnow.org/joint-letter-bangladesh-release-nusrat-shahrin-raka/ ䷉ #accessnow | more in http://schestowitz.com/2022/01/28/#latest
A New Marine Protected Area to Protect Biodiversity and Coral Habitat Around Saint Martin’s Island in Bangladesh - https://newsroom.wcs.org/News-Releases/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/17095/A-New-Marine-Protected-Area-to-Protect-Biodiversity-and-Coral-Habitat-Around-Saint-Martins-Island-in-Bangladesh.aspx "home to Bangladesh’s only coral reef and threatened Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins and whale sharks" #kudos to #bangladesh
