The murder of Xulhaz Mannan , the founder and editor of Bangladesh’s first and only LGBTQ+ magazine, Roopban, has drawn the world’s attention to the violence directed against the country’s outspoken supporters of equal rights . His death at the hands of six assailants sent a wave of fear through (...)
As the rightwing party Hefazat-e-Islam grows, millions of female garment workers increasingly fear for their jobs.
Six mornings a week, Tania Akhter leaves her home in the Banasri Ullah Para neighbourhood in the north of Dhaka, the Bangladeshi capital, for the garments factory where she (...)
Several misconceptions are afloat around the war crimes trials in Bangladesh, as well as the Shahbag Square protests, that are putting pressure on the government to take concrete steps against the Jamaat-e-Islami in Bangladesh.
Critics of the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) have voiced (...)
DHAKA, Feb 2, 2012 (IPS) - Bangladesh’s army has won paludits as leading United Nations peacekeepers, but the January coup attempt against Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government has exposed lurking religious extremism within its ranks.
On Jan. 19, the army brass disclosed that it had foiled a (...)
Bangladesh’s prime minister, Sheikh Hasina Wajed, launched a coordinated assault in January 2010 on the Islamist order that has gripped her country for 30 years. She attacked its legal foundation. In 1979, Islamists had hijacked control of the state, amended the constitution, and transformed (...)
Bangladesh’s once-legendary banking environment is now fatally polluted. The rot is spreading so fast and far that the entire global microfinance industry is threatened. Controversy ranges far beyond poisonous local politics, the factor most often cited by those despondent about Grameen Bank’s (...)
Anu Muhammad is an eminent Marxist and a renowned academician from Bangladesh. He is currently serving as professor in the Department of Economics in Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka. He is also general secretary of National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources Power and Ports (...)
I asked Tareq Ali if I could have the list of the alleged war criminals of 1971war. The list names 200 Pakistani military officers and solidiers. Top of the list is Lt. Gen. Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi. There are five Major Generals (Nazar Hussain Shah, Mohhamed Hussain Insari, Mohammed Jamsheed, (...)
Dec. 30 (Bloomberg) — Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed’s political alliance was swept back to power in national elections, ending two years of military-backed emergency rule.
Hasina’s Awami League gained a clear parliamentary majority, winning 229 seats with results declared (...)
Two years on, a benighted country tries democracy yet again
With Bangladeshi voters going to the polls, apprehension remains over whether the vote can ensure a stable democratic regime, or whether the poverty-stricken country will slip back into the vitriolic infighting that has paralyzed it (...)
DHAKA (AFP) — Among the millions of new voters in Monday’s Bangladeshi elections will be some 100,000 hijras — cross-dressing, pre- and post-operative transsexuals — allowed to cast ballots for the first time.
The male-to-female transsexuals are among 32 percent of the impoverished nation’s 81 (...)
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s political alliance took the lead early Tuesday in elections aimed at restoring democracy to the troubled South Asian nation, officials and media reports said.
The English-language Daily Star newspaper reported early Tuesday that the (...)
On the night of March 25, 1971 the Pakistani army began a campaign to murder and rape thousands of Bengalis in an attempt to curb the rise of the Bengali national independence movement in what was then East Pakistan — Bangladesh today.
“Kill three million of them”, Pakistani President Yahya Khan (...)
The caretaker government is being accused of human rights abuses as mucking out the mess in Dhaka takes an ominous turn.
Concerns are growing both inside and outside Bangladesh that the January military takeover has spawned widespread human rights violations including scores of extrajudicial (...)
If things come the Bush-Blair or rather Empire way, we would have all over the earth what we now see in Bangladesh. The country is run now by what is eulogized as a “caretaker government”! Yes, care is what they are taking, of what, however is the question? Political activities are banned. It (...)
Bangladesh pressed over UN expert
BBC News, June 7, 2007.
UN officials are urging the authorities in Bangladesh to clarify the fate of a UN human rights expert prevented from leaving the country since mid-May.
Sigma Huda, a UN special rapporteur on people trafficking, faces charges under (...)
Rehman Sobhan examines the implications for the country of Prof. Yunus’s decision to retreat from the political stage.
The precipitate withdrawal by Prof. Muhammad Yunus from the political arena was an unexpected as was his announcement of launching a party. The emphasis is on the word (...)
The military has put restrictions on Bangladesh’s politicians and derailed the two women at the center of the country’s fevered political system. The country awaits the end game.
After nearly a generation of desperate and debilitating democracy dominated by two women who hated each other enough (...)
Sunday, February 11: Joint forces arrest S.M. Nuruzzaman, ex-commissioner of the Phulbari town municipality and a leader of the Phulbari chapter of the national committee resisting the Phulbari coal mining project. Nuruzzaman was instrumental in organising the anti-mining protests at (...)
DHAKA, Feb 5 (IPS) - The detention of over a dozen high-profile politicians by the military-backed interim government in Bangladesh, on Sunday, has raised a storm of protests by rights groups and the country’s two main political parties.
Those taken into custody include former ministers (...)
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