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Rafiuzzaman Sifat

Md. Rafiuzzaman Sifat, a CSE graduate turned into journalist, works at News Hour as a staff reporter. He has many years of experience in featured writing in different Bangladeshi newspapers. He is an active blogger, story writer and social network activist. He published a book named 'Se Amar Gopon' inEkushe boi mela Dhaka 2016. Sifat got a BSc. from Ahsanullah University of Science & Technology, Bangladesh. He also works as an Engineer at Bangla Trac Communications Ltd. As an avid traveler and a gourmet food aficionado, he is active in publishing restaurant reviews and cutting-edge articles about culinary culture.

Remembering Fred Hollows

by Rafiuzzaman Sifat - Jun 19, 2016

News Hour: On May 20, 1976, Fred Hollows and teams of health workers set out on the National Trachoma and Eye Health Program with the aim to eliminate trachoma and other eye conditions in rural and...
Melbourne Coastrek 2016: Trekking to restore sight

by Rafiuzzaman Sifat - Jun 19, 2016

News Hour: What is Melbourne Coastrek? Melbourne Coastrek is a 30 to 60km team trek run by Wild Women On Top. This year, it’s happening on Friday 18th November 2016. Teams of four, with at least two...
Record results at 2015 Foundation AGM

by Rafiuzzaman Sifat - Jun 18, 2016

News Hour: Twenty-five years after Fred Hollows was named Australian of the Year, The Fred Hollows Foundation will announce another year of record results at its Annual General Meeting in Sydney tonight. Despite ongoing cuts to...
See a Fred Moment to believe it

by Rafiuzzaman Sifat - Jun 18, 2016

News Hour: Watch Fred Hollows and Dr Sanduk Ruit exchange these excited words, in awe of the transformation they are witnessing. Fred Hollows knew the thrill and joy of freeing someone from avoidable blindness. It simply...
One year after the earthquake: Nepal

by Rafiuzzaman Sifat - Jun 18, 2016

News Hour: Ahead of the first anniversary of the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that killed more than 8,000 and demolished half a million homes, Mr Doolan returned to some of the worst affected areas of Nepal to...
New global trachoma data reveals the end is in sight

by Rafiuzzaman Sifat - Jun 18, 2016

News Hour: An ambitious global mapping project has revealed it would cost about US$1 billion to eliminate blinding trachoma by 2020, of which US$200-300 million has already been committed, an international conference in Sydney will be...
Sightsavers hosts side event at Conference of States Parties

by Rafiuzzaman Sifat - Jun 18, 2016

News Hour: Sightsavers is co-hosting a side event, Fulfilling Sustainable Development Goals through inclusive budgeting, on Tuesday 14 June at the 9th Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The...
UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

by Rafiuzzaman Sifat - Jun 18, 2016

News Hour: The results of the election of nine new members to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, held in New York on Tuesday 14 June, have been announced. Ghanaian nominee...
What’s the Conference of States Parties all about?

by Rafiuzzaman Sifat - Jun 18, 2016

News Hour: As well as being the 10th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 2016 is also the inaugural year of the 2030 Agenda, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs),...
Transgender rights critical for the health of 25 million transgender people worldwide

by Rafiuzzaman Sifat - Jun 18, 2016

News Hour: Public health efforts fail to capture even most basic information about transgender health, but social, legal context in which many transgender people live has led to high rates of HIV, depression. 2015 was an...