Volume 4 Number 98 Mon. September 01, 2003       Advertise with The Daily Star -- Advertising on the Website    Advertising in the Printed E dition-- Home  News Today's Index Front Page Business Political Sports Foreign Relations Metropolitan National International Culture General Views Editorial Letters to Editor Write to Editor Sections Others About Us Contact Advertisement Suppliments Archives Star City Sewerage project brings hope back to 36 villages Dhaka WASA is making a deal with Japan for installing a sewerage line to divert industrial wastes from Tejgaon to Pagla About half a million people and thousands of acres of land of 36 villages in the city's periphery would be relieved of extreme pollution as Dhaka WASA is about to sign a deal with Japan for funds to divert Stop slum eviction, provide education and healthcare Children and adolescents living in slum areas of the city have urged the authorities to stop slum evictions and to provide safe shelters for all evicted people. Building confidence The cost for constructing better earthquake resistant buildings is not prohibitively high rather it is a 'negligible' consideration relative to the total budget. Meeting the mosquito menace The Dhaka City Corporation's decision to privatise mosquito control is set to linger by another month as the evaluation committee was unable to complete examining tender documents, said sources at the   Booking funds for the National Library The National Library has not had sufficient employees in vital posts for the last ten years," said Salma Islam, deputy director of Directorate of archives and National Library The National Library could not publish its yearly national bibliography for the last nine years for what the authorities called shortage of staff.   Women earning at home, working out a safer system The daylong workshop on social protection of women homebased workers ended yesterday at Women's Volunteer Auditorium with an appeal to ensure protection of the women who are striving for extra money for   Pedaling their wares The vegetable sellers, who previously, peddled their limited stock of vegetables to different households; are now using vans which are letting them be more efficient and have a better daily income then Persistent poverty perpetuates human trafficking Human trafficking is rapidly rising due to persistent poverty that forces the vulnerable people to be trapped in the name of better jobs in abroad.   Trans-border flesh trade Trafficking in humans for profit and exploitation is said to be the third largest form of illegal trade after drugs and arms trafficking Women who went through various forms of abuse including beating and rape came up with the stories of their sufferings at a three-day meeting of South Asian women activists, which ended in Dhaka on August Khurshid Jahan Haque speaks to Star City State supervision to protect women working abroad The Ministry of Women and Children Affairs (MWCA) is planning to send female workers abroad to work under state supervision to reduce trafficking, Minister Khurshid Jahan Haque told Star City in an exclusive   Dhaka becomes major trafficking transit point Human trafficking has become a lucrative business for the city's traffickers, especially in an environment where poverty is endemic.     Advertisement