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Rohingya children in refugees camps in Bangladesh continue to do it tough, according to a new report released by three major aid agencies.

While deprivation of basics such as education and adequate nutrition remain an everyday reality for most, human trafficking and sexual assault pose an extra threat for some children.

Aid agencies estimate 60 per cent of the residents there are children, including many who have lost their parents.

The risk of kidnapping, rape and sex trafficking is too great.

The report finds children are terrified of wild elephants, snakes, violent men when they have to collect firewood.

Half a million Rohingya refugee children at risk in overcrowded camps in Bangladesh with cyclone and monsoon season on horizon

In addition to the increased threat of disease outbreaks, the cyclone season brings an increased risk of flooding and landslides, a direct risk to children's lives. Even a moderate storm could have a devastating impact, with little time to prepare ahead of the start of the cyclone season in march.

Children are particularly vulnerable to diphtheria, a bacterial infection that causes dead tissue to build up over the throat and tonsils, making it difficult to breathe.

And with a general election on the horizon, various diplomatic missions are stepping up their efforts to help things run as smoothly as possible.

Bangladesh is becoming an increasingly important player in Asian geopolitics, especially when it comes to the competition between China and India and the various changes and crises underway in Myanmar.

What Bangladesh really needs is not just security, but a legitimately elected government that’s accountable above all to its people, not to some or any external patron.

Thee loss of language is tragic precisely because they are not interchangeable, precisely they represent the distillation of the thoughts and communication of people over their entire history.

Bangla speaking community all over the world pays tribute to language martyrs of the historic Language Movement of 1952, marking the Amar Ekushey and International Mother Language Day on 21 Feabruary.

In 1952, the autocratic Pakistan government imposed Urdu, the language of less than 20 percent people of then Pakistan, as the only official language of East Pakistan.

But students and people of the East Pakistan rose in revolt against the government’s decision to impose Urdu as the state language.

On February 21, police opened fire and killed a number of protesting students, including Abdus Salam, Rafiq Uddin Ahmed, Abul Barkat and Abdul Jabbar, triggering more vigorous movement.

In the face of strong opposition in 1956, the Pakistan government was compelled to make Bangla alongside Urdu as the state language of Pakistan.

The Language Movement was a watershed in history as it fortified Bangali nationalism and its spirit which ultimately led to the country’s independence in 1971.

The day is being observed as the International Mother Language Day in 193 countries across the globe after UNESCO recognised Ekushey February on November 17 in 1999.

Mr Joyce has announced he will leave the Turnbull Government's cabinet after two Nationals colleagues expressed doubts over the viability of his leadership.

He has faced more than two weeks of controversy over his relationship with his now-pregnant media adviser.

Mr Joyce says it is incredibly important to have what he calls a "circuit-breaker," not just for the parliament but, more importantly, for his partner, their unborn child, his daughters and his wife.

The United Kingdom has withdrawn its ban on direct cargo flights from Dhaka to London with some observations.

On March 8, 2016, the British government had slapped the ban on direct cargo flights from Dhaka to London after Biman Bangladesh failed to pass the safety and security tests.

The European Union, where more than 54 percent of Bangladesh's exports are headed, also declared the airport a “red zone” due to insufficient safety and security measures, following the lead of the UK, Australia and Germany.

With the ban in place, the EU-bound cargo airlines from Bangladesh have to re screen goods in a third country, preferably in Dubai, Qatar, Thailand or India.

Ekush is Bangla for 21 , Ekushey is synonymous with " Ekushey February" the day when Bangladesh celebrates its Bangla Language Movement and honors those who sacrificed their lives in its name on 21 February, 1952, simultaneously sewing the seeds of the independence movement. bangladesh is the only country born out of struggle to save it's language.

UNESCO has declared this day as International Mother Language day and all languages are celebrated on this day on a global scale.

It is a really great news especially for the Bangla speaking community in Australia  and world’s Linguistics community that the Australian Federal Parliament has passed a legislation to comply with UNESCO Mission (first Nation in the world other than Bangladesh) to observe International Mother Language Day (IMLD) Movement, and Celebrate 21 (Ekushey) February as a international Mother language day officially.Bill has been passed on 12 February 2018, in Australian Federal Parliament, Moved by Hon. Matt Thistlethwaite MP.

Australian Bangla speaking Community feeling proud as International Mother Language Day will be observed officially in Australia from 21st February 2018, Bangla speaking community in Sydney observed International Mothers Language day in Sydney Ashfield Park on 18 February 2018

Australia has passed the International Mother Language Day Celebration Bill 21 February. When the bill was raised today in the Federal Parliament, all MPs agreed to it. Earlier, last year, the country's capital territory (Canberra) passed a bill in the state assembly to observe the day of the state government.

The legislator of the House of Labor and the House of Representatives of the Labor Party of Australia, Matt Theselethwaite, raised the bill. In the Parliament of Australia, Matte Bangladesh described the history of language movement of 1952 by highlighting the significance of International Mother Language Day.

Interview with Nirmal Paul, President MLC Movement Int.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has told his embattled deputy, Barnaby Joyce, to "consider his position" while he takes next week off.

Mr Turnbull made his remarks at a press conference where he has announced an update to the ministerial code of conduct, banning relations between ministers and staff.

That follows revelations of Mr Joyce's relationship with his former media adviser, which the Prime Minister also criticised as a "shocking error of judgment."

Boris Johnson has said Rohingya Muslim refugees should return to Myanmar only of their own accord and when the “conditions are right”.

After a visit to a refugee camp in Bangladesh, the British foreign secretary stressed there should be international oversight of any repatriation to Rakhine province, from which thousands fled last summer.

“While I welcome steps by both the Burmese and Bangladeshi governments towards ensuring that these people can return home, it is vital that the Rohingya  refugees must be allowed to return to their homes in Rakhine voluntarily, in safety and with dignity, under international oversight, and when the conditions in Burma are right,” he said.

Johnson toured a camp that has taken in some of the estimated 650,000 Rohingya who fled from violent attacks last year