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Langstaff who chaired the Infected Blood Scandal inquiry. He spoke for the last a0 minutes, it was a moving and rousing address where he went through some of the findings that his inquiry published in its final report today. Lets go through some of the main conclusions he made. He concluded that the Treatment Disaster could and should have been largely avoided. The five year investigation accuses doctors, the government and the nhs of trying to cover up what happened. They found patients were knowingly exposed to what he described as unacceptable risks and he found a catalogue of failures with...

In light of an impending Hollywood writers' strike and recent media layoffs, the future of these industries and the people keeping them afloat are in jeopardy.

Access to digital innovations – from SMS advice services to digital networks that connect women in agribusiness – is enabling women to participate in formal agricultural value chains and improve their livelihoods.

bangladesh: sea level rise case study Sundarbans, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, spread across 20,000 square kilometres in India and Bangladesh, is threatened by rising sea level -- … Our results indicate that the geography and demographics of Bangladesh could magnify the threat posed by SLR on internal migration. Since the tides raise and lower the actual sea level daily, and by different amounts in different parts of the world, this sense of “ sea level ” is imprecise. CASE STUDY DESAKOTA PHENOMENON OBSERVED IN SATKHIRA-KHULNA- ... A combination of all these has given rise to Desakota ...

How Bangladesh's Flood-Prone North Is Using Corn to Lift Itself Out of Poverty Corn needs less water and brings in more money than other staple crops in northern Bangladesh. By Mosabber Hossain LALMONIRHAT DISTRICT, Bangladesh, May 3 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) — The people of Shaniazan union, in northern Bangladesh, still remember when a river burst its banks in the early 1990s and engulfed their homes, leaving the land too sandy to grow traditional rice and tobacco crops. Back then, they desperately struggled to feed their families. Today, the collection of villages in Lalmonirhat distri...