02/06/2021

UN: Grave Allegations Involving Visiting Bangladesh Army Chief

(New York) – The United Nations should use its meetings with senior Bangladeshi military officials next week to protest attempts to use the UN as cover […]
06/19/2020

Book launch of Bangladesh: A Suffering People Under State Terrorism (Peter Lang, 2020)

Bangladesh: A Suffering People Under State Terrorism explores the destructive political situation in Bangladesh under the one-party and one-person rule of the despotic Sheikh Hasina. The contributors […]
04/04/2020

Human rights groups urge Bangladesh to restore Rohingya refugee camps’ internet

Human rights campaigners have urged Bangladesh to restore mobile internet connections for hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees living in crowded camps, arguing that people there […]
02/28/2020

‘Our Democracy Is In Danger’: Muslims In India Say Police Target Them With Violence

When Aysha Renna decided last month to demonstrate against India’s new citizenship law on her college campus in New Delhi, it never occurred to her that […]
02/23/2020

Trump’s Muslim ban: Iranian-Americans are treated like the enemy within by Azadeh Shahshahani

“I’ve stood with you since the beginning of my Presidency, and my Administration will continue to stand with you,” US President Donald Trump said on Twitter in Farsi […]
02/06/2020

Journalists covering elections in Dhaka, Bangladesh attacked, harassed by Awami League activists

At least 15 journalists were beaten, threatened, denied access to polling stations, or had equipment broken or taken while covering the mayoral and ward councilor vote, […]
02/06/2020

Uyghurs and the China Coronavirus By Munawwar Abdulla

The World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a global public health emergency on January 30. The Chinese government initially heavily obscured the severity of outbreak in the early days, […]
02/06/2020

A Step Forward for 10,000 Rohingya Refugee Children by Bill Van Esveld

Bangladesh will allow 10,000 ethnic Rohingya refugee children to get a formal school curriculum for the first time after the government approved a “pilot” education program. […]
02/06/2020

Bangladesh’s part in the Trump impeachment drama by William Milam

Well, Bangladesh is in the news again, in a way probably, despite its eagerness to be better known in the US, it does not want to […]