This book aims to portray various aspects of life, living conditions and struggle of indigenous people living in the Chittagong Hill Tracts areas. The book contains a large number of articles written by indigenous people, researchers, community leaders and people from different sectors. The book will reflect the life of CHT indigenous people in its various manifestations and implications.

written by Dr. M A Mannan, Senior Research Fellow, Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS), deals with the problems and prospects of safe motherhood and maternal care in Bangladesh. It contains a huge volume of data, charts, graphs and statistical information.

This book is based on the findings of four workshops organized across the country to find out the problems and prospects of women’s participation in politics. The book deliberates over ways and means to combat all kinds of discriminations against women to ensure their maximum and equal presentation in the political process. The discussants in the workshops discussed about how more scopes and opportunities could be made for political empowerment of women communities.

Impacts of Flood in Urban Bangladesh- Micro and Macro Level Analysis by K. M. Nabiul Islam: Flood has historically been a nemesis for Bangladesh; it regularly causes huge damage in the rural and urban areas of Bangladesh. In this important book, the author highlights the adverse impact of flood in the urban areas of Bangladesh. A pin-pointed and informative analysis of the effects of flood, including its direct and indirect impacts, have been discussed with the help of necessary statistics and visual representations. A book of great significance, considering the flood-prone nature of the country.

This book contains 84 well-written articles written by women from various backgrounds. The articles are highly informative, poignant and many of them pose incisive questions regarding the true place of women in our social fabric. These articles also deals with wide ranging issues in relation to women empowerment, women liberation movements, socio-cultural-educational status of women, women abuse in its multifarious forms and manifestations, etc. This book is certain to add a new dimension to women related writings in this country and pave way for many more publication endeavour regarding women, particularly, vast majority of underprivileged women of Bangladesh.

Disable people are undoubtedly one of the most marginalized portions of the society. The Disabled people have traditionally been subjected to oppression, abuse and negligence, sometimes of unbelievable magnitude. Amra Korbo Joy, CDL's publication endeavor aims to highlight PwD (Persons with Disability) issues in a different way, by shedding lights on various aspects of this issue, with particular aim to make common people aware of the true feelings of the PwDs about which majority of the people, mainstream media, GO-NGO bodies and institutions are not aware. This book contains 72 articles written by subject specialists, development activists, researchers, common people and PwDs themselves. These informative articles pose disturbing questions to our conscience, which might inspire us to look at the PwD issue with a lot more passion and sincerity. This book is certain to minimize a huge gap in the country's PwD related information and thoughts.

This book remembers and celebrates the supreme sacrifice made by the freedom fighter during the bloody birth of Bangladesh in the liberation of 1971. It contains articles written by the country’s prominent freedom fighters and common people alike – who have given their eyewitness’ accounts of the great war of liberation. It portrays the grief and sorrow and pride and joy that the war of liberation gave us. This first hand account is expected to act as a primary source of information for the researchers and the people who want to have a closer look at the greatest war that the nation has ever fought. This book has already generated considerable interest and this initiative of CDL has been commended in very high terms by all. It is being widely shared CDL’s national and international network partners, libraries and information outlets, media and individuals and organizations all over the country.

As a part of observation of the silver jubilee year of CDL (in 2005), CDL has been arranging various program activities to celebrate this landmark event. On this occasion, CDL has brought out a special publication, entitled Aloker Jharnadharay (In the stream of light). In the beginning of 2005. The book included articles written by development workers, intellectuals, patrons and well-wishers of CDL, CDL staff members, etc. to express their feelings about CDL. This book has generated considerable interest in the development sector and has been widely shared with development activists, CDL’s national and international network partners, media and individuals and organizations involved with CDL activities all over the country.

Essays on contemporary issues Mohiuddin Ahmad. May 2004. The book presents some issues that echo concerns of many individuals and groups. Some issues are local, some are regional and some are global. The first one, Birth of a Nation-State, has been included to familiarize this who do not know much about how Bangladesh came into being. While preparing this anthology, all the essays have been revised and updated. In all the essays, aspects of distress, deprivation, despair, demonstration and defiance have surfaced in the hindsight that delineates the real world where we live.

This book is personal memoir as an impartial observation of the war of independence of Bangladesh that took place in 1971. The author Mohiuddin Ahmad describes various events leading to and following our great war of independence. This is an unbiased and unprejudiced account of many tales of the war, a portrayal of many people who fought the war and helped the country achieve its independence. The book has already received critical acclaim.

Children’s Boundary: Exploring Struggle, and Local Contexts of Child Rights”. by Dr. Hamidul Huq. August 2003. It is a joint publication by CDL, CPD (Community Participation and Development) and Save the Children, Denmark. The book is an honest attempt towards unraveling the state of children’s rights in Bangladesh with a view to ensure a brighter and better future for them.