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, by CPI (ML) Liberation
A three-member delegation of the CPI(ML)(Liberation had been to Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, to attend the 8th Party Congress of the RWPB held on and from 1st April to 3rd April, followed by a grand meet with the leaders of the left and democratic parties/formations of Bangladesh on 4th (…)
, by IRIN
DHAKA, 16 February 2010 (IRIN) - Bangladesh has voiced strong opposition to plans by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) to provide close to US$100 million in climate change aid - because of its delivery through the World Bank.
“We are strongly against the World Bank’s (…)
Bangladesh is one of the most victimized countries of the world due to the Climate Change. Northern part of Bangladesh is gradually going to be desert with continued drought. At the same time southern part of Bangladesh destroyed by cyclone and high tidal wave sinks in the saline water of the (…)
, by IUF
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, by Collective / Multiple signers
The article below is an open letter issued by “Concerned Teachers, Students, Writers, Artists, and Activists Around the World”. It is abridged from Mrzine.
On September 2, the members of a nationwide alliance in Banladesh — the National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Power (…)
, by SALIM Anwar Parvez
Like in India, the left in Bangladesh is currently anaemic; unlike its Indian counterpart, however, the Bangladeshi left has been in this state for decades. Contesting under the Awami League symbol of the boat, the Jatiyo Samajtantrik Dal (JSD) won three seats and the Workers Party two during (…)
, by JOHNSON Ed
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 (…)
, by THAKURIA Nava
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 (…)
, by AFP
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 (…)
, by AP
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 three-day plenum of the Workers Party of Bangladesh had just finished recently in Dhaka. The outcome and important political and organizational decisions taken in the plenum have been announced at a press conference arranged in Dhaka. Through the press conference these are also being (…)
, by FIDH
International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)
Paris, 20 June 2008: The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) releases a report today from a fact-finding mission to Bangladesh. The mission took place in the framework of the FIDH / Carrefour cooperation on human rights in the (…)
, by The Daily Star
Women’s rights activists knew what was coming, had already protested the formation of review body
Staff Correspondent
The formation of a high-powered committee to review the Women Development Policy 2008 by keeping the women and children affairs ministry in the dark has surprised many (…)
, by The Daily Star
Mullah driven review body finds equal rights for women “very objectionable”. Recommends deletion of 6 provisions, change in 15 in National Women Development Policy.
Star Report
The ulema committee formed to review the National Women Development Policy has strongly opposed equal rights to (…)
, by The Daily Star
Staff Correspondent
A number of socio-cultural organisations, political parties and non-government organisations (NGO) have demanded cancellation of the committee formed to review the Women Development Policy 2008 and immediate implementation of the policy.
Samajik Protirodh Committee (…)
, by Correspondent(s)
Staff Correspondent
The surrounding areas of Baitul Mukarram National Mosque turned into a battlefield yesterday when members of an Islamic organisation clashed with police leaving over 50 injured including 10 policemen and 15 pedestrians.
Witnesses said the hour-long clash started (…)
, by HOSSAIN Hameeda
WHY so much noise about a policy which does no more than reaffirm commitments of earlier documents? The protests by a few religious clerics surrounding the declaration of the policy by the chief advisor give rise to suspicions of political machinations. The responses of some members of the (…)
, by AFP
DHAKA (AFP) - Bangladesh’s military-backed government has backed down from a policy to ensure equal property rights to women amid angry protests by Muslim clerics that the move would override Islamic law.
The country’s law minister Hasan Arif said the government “does not have any plan to (…)
, by New Age (Bangladesh)
Our failure as a nation to ensure equal rights for women as for men in all spheres and at all levels is, we believe, a cause for great disappointment and collective shame. While there is no doubt that we have taken some measures towards gender equity since our national independence, there (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
Update: Mehedi Hasan was released by the Bangladesh security forces on Sunday, February 3, 2008 after being held for ten days in detention. Police have told Hasan’s lawyer that all charges against him have been dropped, although the WRC is awaiting written confirmation.
According to the WRC, (…)
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