Human Rights Sanctions On Bangladesh —A Prediction Or A Warning?
Human Rights Sanctions On Bangladesh —A Prediction Or A Warning? For the US, the question is how to be aggressive enough to keep some democratic alleys open for the future. William B Milam Curtesy: FridayTimes As far as I could tell, most Bangladeshi leaders were not particularly upset that their country did not get invited […]
Bangladesh: 86 Victims of Enforced Disappearance Still Missing
Bangladesh: 86 Victims of Enforced Disappearance Still Missing UN Should Ban Death Squad from Peacekeeping Missions (Geneva) – United Nations human rights experts should lead an independent international investigation into enforced disappearances by security forces in Bangladesh, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today. Senior UN officials, donors, and trade partners should step up measures […]
India’s citizenship changes are immoral and self-defeating
India’s citizenship changes are immoral and self-defeating Making it harder for Muslims to become citizens risks global backlash The reelection of Narendra Modi as Indian Prime Minister in May 2019 with a larger mandate than before has made his government almost unstoppable in passing controversial laws. In August, it passed a bill demoting and dividing […]
466 extrajudicial killings in 2018: Amnesty
466 extrajudicial killings in 2018: Amnesty The executions in 2018 alone marked a threefold increase on 2017 and the highest in a single year in decades Bangladeshi authorities have allegedly killed 466 people in 2018 under the guise of an anti-drugs campaign in what appears to be a wave of extrajudicial executions, said Amnesty International. […]
More women are being elected in autocratic regimes…
More women are being elected in autocratic regimes, but this is part of a democratic facade. The definition of democracy needs to change. Fake news, disinformation, foreign influence in elections: We’re starting to understand the ways bad actors attack democracy in Canada and around the world. But autocrats and other enemies of democracy also use […]
Bangladesh does about-face on Rohingya
By SABRIA CHOWDHURY BALLAND Two years ago, Bangladesh took in nearly 750,000 Muslim Rohingya refugees who had been driven out of Myanmar by a military crackdown. These attacks were referred to as ethnic cleansing by the United States, whereas United Nations investigators referred to them as crimes against humanity. At that time, many questioned whether Bangladesh, […]
Bangladeshi Journalist Couple Murder- a look back
Bangladeshi journalist leaders’ submissive role hinders demand for justice of murdered journalist couple. Many a number of justice seekers of the brutal murder claim a ‘perceivable compromise’ between the journalist community leaders of Bangladesh and the home minister of the country results the situation. The justice seekers are mostly Facebook users. They are keeping the […]