Bangladesh: Human Rights, Democracy, Justice System Remain Deplorable by R. Chowdhury
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The Nakba as many people are already aware refers to the mass expulsion of ethnic Palestinians from their homes towns and villages in 1948. Over 750,000 ..
The Ukraine crisis must not cause the world to forget about Afghanistan, as failing to address its humanitarian needs might be dangerous. The Afghan state’s ..
The United States in the post-World War 2 era carved out two distinct global enemy blocs: the Soviet Union and China. US foreign and domestic policies ..
Most bilateral relations in the region, including those between Kathmandu and Islamabad, are dominated by concerns about India’s massive influence ..
Since August 2017, rampant persecution and violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state has pushed hundreds of thousands of Muslim minority people, known ..
Sri Lanka is facing a quagmire of multiverse political and economic issues. The inflation rate in the country increased to 25%. The cost of essential items ..
The world is fast changing. International relations has become much more complex and multidimensional than any time in history. There has been a power ..
The minority narrative about Bangladesh is largely dominated by violence against Hindus. The common arguments regarding this narrative focus on the declining ..
One side argues that, had Ukraine been made a NATO member, it would have sat permanently deep inside the heart of Russia as a nuclear threat. To avoid ..
The war in Ukraine has made Finland and Sweden jittery as the security threat coming from their eastern neighbor Russia has become all too real. Both nations ..
The power shift in Myanmar and the subsequent polarization among the major powers triggered a new geopolitical flashpoint in Bangladesh’s strategic ..
I did not know Shireen Abu Akleh, but I mourn her as a friend. For millions of us, she was our heartfelt window into the Palestinian cause for 25 years. ..
On April 4, amid Russia’s “special military operation” in Ukraine, NATO turned 73. An old man guarding liberty and democracy in a world at war. ..
CHRD Bangladesh is profoundly saddened by the brutal killing of Al Jazeera journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh, who was shot dead by Israeli forces in cold blood. ..
Islamophobia has many faces: some are visibly ugly and unmistakable in their hateful intent, such as white supremacists burning copies of the Quran with ..
The Danish Crown Princess Mary Elizabeth has paid an official visit to Bangladesh from April 25th to 27th. Her official visit also coincides with the 50th ..
The Honorable Antony J. Blinken Secretary of State U.S. Department of State Room 7226 Harry S. Truman Building 2201 C Street, NW ..
Israeli forces raided Al-Quds’ Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, attacking Palestinians worshipping inside. Thousands of Palestinians were attacked by Israeli ..
In recent years NATO – essentially the USA and Western Europe – has bared its fascist roots through multiple interventions across four continents. ..
The political tempest in Pakistan that prematurely toppled the democratically elected Prime Minister, Imran Khan, is proving to be a great folly for the action’s ..
Bulldozers are giant, ugly machines mounted on wheels that are used to bring down sturdy concrete structures with ease. In a macabre twist, bulldozers ..
The Ukraine crisis has caused one of Europe’s greatest and fastest refugee migrations since World War II ended. A massive amount of people have fled ..
NATO was formed in 1949, just four years after the end of World War II, to provide military infrastructure for the US-led Cold War alliance. Its existence ..
India marked the festival of Ram Navami — commemorating the birthday of the Hindu deity Lord Ram — with gusto on April 10. But more than the customary ..
Pakistan is currently experiencing a major political and constitutional crisis. On 3 April, the deputy speaker of the National Assembly threw out a no-confidence ..
Hegemony The United States pursues ultimate hegemony and dominates the international system economically, politically and militarily, rejecting any return ..
Democracy and Human Rights have become significant aspects of Joe Biden’s foreign policy. The current President of The United States of America has centered ..
The Coalition for Human Rights & Democracy in Bangladesh (CHRD Bangladesh) is greatly relieved to learn of the release on bail of Ms. Nusrat Shahrin ..
Israel has made numerous statements these past few weeks welcoming Ukrainian Jews “home” to Israel, should they seek to emigrate. Unlike the Ukrainians ..
Since the return of partial democracy in Myanmar in 2010, the Rohingya have been the target of persecution, ethnic cleansing and genocide. As of now, about ..
Communal violence, minority repression and violating religious freedom are nothing new in India. Quite often, India-the world’s largest democracy, experiences ..
The United States has informally raised with Turkey the unlikely possibility of sending its Russian-made S-400 missile defense systems to Ukraine to help ..
On the occasion of the 51st Independence Day of Bangladesh on March 26, the Coalition for Human Rights & Democracy in Bangladesh (CHRD Bangladesh) ..
UN human rights experts* called on Bangladesh to immediately cease reprisals against human rights defenders and relatives of forcibly disappeared persons ..
No doubt, the first casualty of war is Truth. And the main task of killing the truth is carried out by propaganda warriors. The rulers, with the assistance ..
The Quad-China rivalry and the ‘scramble’ for the Indo-Pacific region have made the region, especially South Asia, geopolitically significant ..
As the war in Ukraine enters its third week, it is clear that a quick end to the fighting is not going to happen. At the time of writing, Russian troops ..
Counterterrorism is threaded throughout the incursion into Ukraine. In Russia, it is weaponized against both the Ukrainian people and the Russians opposed ..
“It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the vote decide everything.” ..
Many people have been looking at the Ukraine war from many different angles, from Trump’s admiration for Putin’s “savvy” and “brilliant” ..
The Coalition for Human Rights & Democracy in Bangladesh (CHRD Bangladesh) condemns the Russian invasion of Ukraine and fully supports the US sanctions. ..
Since the end of World War II, the US and its allies have been directly responsible for 81 percent of all unjust wars, illegal occupations of countries, ..
Negotiations between Russian and Ukrainian delegations aimed at resolving the situation in Ukraine began on Monday in Gomel, southeastern Belarus. Initially, ..
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) convened an emergency meeting requested by Ukraine this week in the hopes of preventing war and Russian assault. ..
Following a long period of escalation, Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered troops into Eastern Ukraine’s two breakaway regions, prompting immediate ..
During a US congressional briefing last month, Dr. Gregory Stanton, founder of Genocide Watch, warned that Muslims in India face the threat of imminent ..
“…That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.”—President ..
More than 100 journalists have been sued under the DSA between January 2019 and May 2021, and at least 39 of them were arrested. The DSA, enacted in 2018, ..
I remember visiting my village in Nangarhar, Afghanistan, in 2011 and stopping by two farmers in their 50s in the wheat fields. This was after the surge, ..
Mr. Hamzah Zainuddin Minister of Home Affairs Malaysia Blok D1, D2 & D9, Kompleks D, Pusat Pentadbiran Kerajaan Persekutuan, ..
For a long period of time, Bangladesh has been striving to ensure food security at home by planning to shop for farmland abroad. Recently, South Sudan, ..
UNCHR Representative United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 570 Jalan Bukit Petaling 50460 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia mlslu@unhcr.org ..
The UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances will hold in hybrid format its 126th session from 7 to 11 February 2022 to examine more ..
Haider Ali Khan is a little-known Indian politician. Hailing from an erstwhile royal family in Uttar Pradesh, not many – either in his home state or elsewhere ..
The close friendship between Dhaka and Moscow has continued unbroken into the post-Soviet era. January 25, 2022, marked the 50th anniversary of Bangladesh’s ..
“Illegal or legal, I am the Prime Minister.” ~Sheikh Hasina, September 25, 2021, New York. Strange but true. “Illegal” and “Mother of Mafia,” ..
January 30 this year will mark the 74th anniversary of the assassination of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. It was in the evening of that day in 1948 that ..
Mr. Abu Mohammad Amin Uddin Attorney General of Bangladesh Attorney General’s Office of Bangladesh People’s Republic of Bangladesh attorneygeneraloffice.bd@gmail.com ..
Recently, China decided to grant duty-free access to 98 percent of Bangladeshi goods, including 383 new products, especially leather and leather-made goods. ..
On January 17, Israeli occupation forces were caught in a standoff with the Salhiya family in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of Jerusalem. The representative ..
The United Nation’s Department of Peace Operations should ban Bangladesh’s notoriously abusive paramilitary Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) from ..
As far as I could tell, most Bangladeshi leaders were not particularly upset that their country did not get invited to the Summit on Democracy held by US President ..
India and Pakistan have enormous social capital and the economic potential to develop themselves and make their mark in South Asia and the world. Yet their ..
The Bangladesh police recently swooped on the relatives of the victims of enforced disappearances and rights abuses and forced them to sign false statements, ..
Bangladesh’s ruling Awami League government dismissed concerns raised by the United Nations, donors, and nongovernmental organizations during 2021 ..
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is not up for re-election for at least another two years as the country’s next parliamentary elections are due in 2024. ..
It snowed late last night in Washington: perhaps a fitting end, in some metaphoric sense, to the day that marked one year since the January 6, 2020 attack ..
Have attitudes hardened in the maelstrom that is the world of Israel-Palestine? The furor over a social media post from actress Emma Watson suggests so, heralding ..
In the fiscal year 2022, Bangladesh is expected to be India’s fourth-largest export destination, jumping from the fifth place it is currently holding. ..
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Sanctions The administration of President Joe Biden recently ..
The Bangladesh government is fascist in nature and has tactfully removed democracy from the country. There have not been one or two instances, but hundreds ..
In 1947, hundreds of thousands of people in India from threatened minorities moved to what they perceived as a place of refuge. The Radcliffe Line was the boundary ..
The world’s 10 richest billionaires added roughly $402 billion to their collective wealth in 2021, a year marked by continued suffering and economic ..
On 19 December, 2021 India’s nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi recalled his meeting with Pope Francis in October at the Vatican when he invited ..
In March 2014, Malé decided to close its High Commission in Dhaka because of the reduction in the annual budget. At that time, Dhaka offered to pay the rent ..
The government of Bangladesh is responsible for the most heinous human rights violations including extra-judicial killings and enforced disappearances. ..
The recently deceased Archbishop Desmond Tutu has been eulogized for his struggle to bring down Apartheid, South Africa’s violently enforced racial ..
Bangladesh was debt-ridden a few years ago but is now a success in debt relief. It has given loans to Sri Lanka and Sudan. It gave a loan to a country ..
Nearly seven months have passed since the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken informed the Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas of Washington’s ..
“RAB deserved to be sanctioned years ago because it has been a de facto death squad, operating with impunity for years in Bangladesh.” ~Phil Robertson, ..
The name “Bay of Bengal” is a matter of pride for Bengalis! Large cities like Madras (Chennai), Hyderabad, Bhubaneswar. etc. in all areas or states ..
By virtue of its geography, the United States has always considered itself as a Pacific power. It has also frequently become entangled in wars in the region, ..
CHRD Bangladesh joins other human rights groups and activists in greatly appreciating the targeted sanctions placed by the US Department of the Treasury ..
Russian President Vladimir Putin had been isolated on Ukraine in a series of major summits throughout December, but that changed significantly on Wednesday ..
“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”–Martin Luther King Jr. Bangladesh celebrates ..
Bangladesh is a Southeast Asian country geographically but South Asian culturally. Myanmar and Bangladesh are bordering countries, just like Thailand and Myanmar ..
December 10, 2021 marks the International Day of the Disappeared. In Bangladesh, there are still many people who have been disappeared by security forces, ..
Begum Khaleda Zia, an opposition leader of Bangladesh, is being pushed to a slow death by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Mrs. Zia is the Chairperson ..
PRESS STATEMENT Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State We are determined to put human rights at the center of our foreign policy, and we reaffirm this commitment ..
SERIOUS HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE IN BANGLADESH: RAPID ACTION BATTALION Widespread allegations of serious human rights abuse in Bangladesh by the Rapid Action ..
While China and Bangladesh remained uninvited to Washington’s Summit for Democracy, Pakistan has chosen to stay out of it despite being one of the invitees. ..
A Bangladeshi court sentenced 20 university students to death on Wednesday, December 8, 2021 for their roles in the killing of Abrar Fahad, a brilliant ..
South Asian neighbors Bangladesh and Bhutan have a harmonious relationship on the strength of their mutual interest, shared history and culture. On December ..
The United States and China are competing for dominance in technology. America has long been at the forefront in developing the technologies (bio, nano, ..
Nepal and Bangladesh can work together on the repatriation of the Rohingya refugees. Nepal can play role in resolving the Rohingya crisis as a regional ..
“Fight against those who fight against you in the way of God, but do not transgress, for God does not love transgressors” –The Quran (2:190) ..
In the last five years or so, various initiatives have been taken in bilateral and international forums to repatriate the displaced Rohingya or to resolve ..
Bangladesh and Pakistan together make up 5 percent of the world’s population. The possibilities of market value in the case of export and import ..
The Rohingya issue is currently an important international one. More than 1.1 million Rohingya have taken refuge in Bangladesh since August 2017 due to genocide ..
Growing up, I would hear my relatives saying aloud how there would come a day when we would get kicked out of ‘their country’. We just didn’t ..
The world is divided. It is our task to unite it and establish peace and harmony. At present, the UN consists of 206 listed states, of which 193 are member ..
Self-proclaimed as the world’s largest democracy, India has no respect for the rights of its neighbors. It knows only how to take from others and does ..
Between 1963-68, the USA was shaken by assassinations of its three most promising and popular leaders. The overall impact was in terms of a big loss to forces ..
“The BSF shoots Bangladeshi youth dead along the Sathkhira border” was the headline in The Dhaka Tribune on July 12, 2021. “Bangladeshis shot dead ..
CHRD Bangladesh is extremely concerned about the grave debilitating and deteriorating health condition of ailing Begum Khaleda Zia, the former democratically ..
Munawar Faruqui makes people laugh for a living, but the 29-year-old stand-up comedian has recently lost his sense of humor. It started at the beginning ..
Every nation faced with an insurmountable crisis tries to finds a salvager, whom the people trust will be able to salvage the country from the ditches ..
Children in many countries continue to be sentenced to the death penalty and life imprisonment, often under outdated colonial laws and in violation of their ..
Bangladesh was bowled out for a paltry 73 by Australia who scored the runs with 82 balls to spare. The defeat was a humiliation. It also meant a 5–0 ..
Alok Sharma, the President of COP26, the mega make or break climate negotiation event currently underway in Glasgow, in a speech given at UNESCO Headquarters ..
Two years ago, recordings that tied 2020 US Presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard, a self-identified Hindu, to an offshoot organization of the Hare Krishna ..
Your Excellency, The Coalition for Human Rights and Democracy in Bangladesh (CHRD Bangladesh) has the honor to extend its hearty greetings on your ..
In a normal country, and in normal times, the decision to designate certain nongovernmental organizations as terror groups would be accompanied by damning ..
Pakistan entered the ICC T-20 World Cup with a least than ideal preparation, after both the England and New Zealand cricket teams cancelled their respective ..
The Pakistan High Commissioner to Bangladesh, Imran Ahmed Siddiqui’s recent meeting with Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was comprehensively ..
Muslims in the north-eastern Indian state of Tripura, which shares a border with Bangladesh, have been under attack from radicalized Hindu nationalists ..
The Taiwan issue has become an increasingly dangerous focal point of tension and a headache for the USA and its allies. These tensions and headache, to a great ..
The impasse between Iran and the US over returning to the Vienna nuclear talks seems to drag on even though both sides are keen on negotiating. Washington ..
Subramanian Swamy, a veteran lawmaker belonging to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of India, once again demanded his country to invade Bangladesh ..
The Pentagon’s offer of “condolence money” to the relatives of the ten people (seven of them children) who were killed in the final ..
Whereas the influence of lobby groups associated with guns, pharmaceutical companies and defense contractors in the United States is well known, the growing ..
India’s Democratic Backslide Recently, members of the far-right Hindu-nationalist organization Bajrang Dal confronted four Muslim men at a social event ..
Libya has endured years of turmoil, political fragmentation and dashed hopes for peace, ten years after former leader Muammar Gaddafi was tracked down ..
The Coalition for Human Rights and Democracy in Bangladesh (CHRD Bangladesh) is concerned about the violence caused by the desecration of the Holy Quran ..
The events of the past couple of years have exposed the fundamental fragility of our political and economic systems. From COVID-19 to Brexit, the status ..
Since the Taliban took control of Kabul and the central government on August 15, efforts to support Afghan women have become extremely challenging. According ..
The “Pandora Papers,” a new investigation led by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, has fueled outrage around the world. Politicians, ..
On September 10, 2021, during an important diplomatic meeting that occurred by telephone, U.S. President Joseph Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping ..
To paraphrase a famous quote, madness is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results. This about sums up the insanity of Iraq’s ..
The violation of human rights by the fascist regime of Sheikh Hasina in Bangladesh reached new and ugly heights. As the regime cannot reach the political ..
CHRD Bangladesh is appalled to learn of the arrest of Mrs. Nusrat Shahreen Raka, the younger sister of exiled and eminent journalist, Dr. Kanak Sarwar. ..
From the moment Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi swept to power in 2014 on the back of a muscular and threatening Hindu nationalist agenda, human rights ..
The recent judgements of the trial court of Lahore and the Model Criminal Trial Court of Attock have once again given a chance to rights defenders across ..
“Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate ..
Israeli activists, former ambassadors and right-wing fanatics claimed this week that “Palestinians” flew a Nazi flag in the village of Beit Ummar. ..
Last week, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat from New York, caused a stir when her attempt at performative dissent with her “Tax the Rich” ..
Authoritarianism is not pretending anymore…its practices and styles basically being smuggled into democratic governments. –Ivan Krastev (Political ..
Several days after a US drone strike killed 10 members of a family, including seven children, on the outskirts of Kabul on August 29, General Mark Milley, ..
Hindu nationalism is a political ideology that advocates for Hindu supremacy and the exclusion of members of other Indian religious groups from equal participation ..
The Associated Press reports that the survivors of family members killed in a U.S. hellfire missile strike on a civilian vehicle after U.S. troops and Afghan ..
With no back story at all, Australia has supposedly scrapped a $90 billion submarine contract with France, for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). The RAN will ..
“Afghanistan’s territory should not be used to threaten and attack any country or to shelter, finance or train terrorists”, said Indian ..
“To resurrect Mujib,” RAW implied to Hasina, “you have to destroy Zia.” Sheikh Hasina was on self-exile in India from 1975 and was under an extensive ..
In a speech delivered on October 1, 2011, President George W. Bush announced the start of the War on Terror (WOT). Referring to the day now simply known ..
In the end, the Taliban movement’s much-awaited cabinet reveal seems to be a bit of a damp squib. The Islamist militants that overran Afghanistan with ..
“To subjugate another is to subjugate yourself.” For the past thirteen years, Bangladesh has been suffering from two acute syndromes: Indian hegemony ..
After nearly 20 long years without bloodshed by the Taliban, the conquest of Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, has changed many geopolitical dilemmas, ..
In the early morning hours of Monday, September 6, 2021, six Palestinian prisoners managed to escape the highly secured Galboa Israeli jail. This is rare. ..
The Taliban may have been fighting to regain power for the past 20 years, but having lost most of those who misgoverned Afghanistan the last time around, ..
If you knew nothing about the war that has ravaged Afghanistan since 2001, and your only point of reference were reports aired on American cable news networks ..
The Bangladesh government has repeatedly denied involvement in hundreds of enforced disappearances of activists, critics, and opposition members, and has taken ..
The government of Bangladesh is responsible for gross violation of Human Rights and abuse of democracy in Bangladesh, including a large number of indiscriminate ..
As I heard the news out of Afghanistan—the families scrambling to get on American planes, or the thousands of requests for assistance pouring into my office—I ..
Shadow government as an insurgent organization is one thing; official rule quite another. The Taliban movement took about ten days to overrun Afghanistan ..
Since the U.S. withdrawal in Afghanistan, there has been no shortage of solidarity statements to mourn the demise of democracy and support the rule of law in Afghanistan. ..
The Bangladesh government has taken the initiative to export 21 products to Sri Lanka with duty-free facilities. At the same time, the two countries have ..
The fall of the Afghan capital to the Taliban is not only an existential crisis for Kabul’s female population, religious minorities, journalists, human ..
Joe Biden’s swift, if not chaotic pull out of Afghanistan is going to make headlines for weeks and months to come. It is shocking on so many levels and the bumbling ..
US Vice-President Kamala Harris starts a tour of Asia on Sunday in a bid to recapture the Biden team’s foreign policy momentum after the Taliban takeover ..
Since the killing of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman there has been a question which has haunted me for a long time: who was the mastermind ..
A three-year old “fake news” law in Bangladesh is reminiscent of the colonial period when the rulers punished people to suppress inconvenient truths. ..
We are being told that the Taliban of today are not the same as the Taliban of 1996. Fair enough but the Afghanistan of today is not the same as the Afghanistan ..
It took a couple of days for US President Joe Biden to interrupt his vacation at Camp David and address his people and a world still in shock at the carnage ..
The endgame of this phase of Afghanistan’s internal conflict should not come as a surprise to anyone, although many current and former officials and military ..
Surprisingly, those implying that the Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is “a woman who, according to the customs and manners of the country, ..
What are the parallels between the U.S. troop drawdowns in Afghanistan and Vietnam? Everyone, it seems, chooses their own reference point when discussing ..
Human rights groups in Bangladesh report that at least 28 people have been killed in the name of gunfight or crossfire in Bangladesh since the death ..
The Indian government has commenced preparations to redraw the electoral boundaries in Indian-administered Kashmir two years after New Delhi rescinded ..
The Awami administration under Sheikh Hasina Wazed observes August 15 as a Mourning Day. On this day in 1975, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, then President and Hasina’s ..
The martyred former President of Bangladesh, Ziaur Rahman dreamt of the idea of forming a strong and viable forum comprising of the South Asian countries ..
The United States and NATO forces are scheduled to withdraw from Afghanistan by August 31, almost exactly 20 years since the Al Qaeda attacks on the US. This ..
The second anniversary of the Indian government’s illegal actions in occupied Jammu and Kashmir falls on Thursday, August 5. India’s unilateral actions ..
In the joint press conference that ended his one-day visit to India, the United States Secretary of State Anthony Blinken did not try to hide the US’s ..
On July 31, military delegates from India and China held a nine-hour long inconclusive meeting at Moldo on the Chinese side in the Ladakh region and no official ..
When frenzy prompted the drivers of two racing public buses to lose control of their vehicles on 29 July 2018, they bulldozed into the sidewalks in front ..
The earth is fragile and under the spell of climate transformation due to the changes in the typical climate of the planet in terms of temperature, precipitation, ..
It is widely known that weather is not climate. It is also widely known that climate, and therefore climate change, can significantly affect the weather ..
Bangladeshi authorities must end the crackdown on people’s right to freedom of expression online and urgently repeal the draconian Digital Security Act (DSA) ..
Economist, civil society leader and Nobel Peace Prize awardee Professor Muhammad Yunus became the second recipient of the Olympic Laurel. He officially ..
While Joe Biden’s first overseas presidential trip was to Europe, it is becoming clearer by the day that his administration’s foreign policy priority ..
On July 19, Ben & Jerry’s created much controversy when it announced its decision to stop selling its ice cream in the Occupied Palestinian Territory ..
Eidul Azha is one of the holiest religious events in the Islamic calendar. This day we are reminded of Prophet Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his beloved ..
Many people in Israel and supporters of the country continue to live in denial rather than accept the reality that it commits some of the worst war crimes ..
The Coalition for Human Rights & Democracy in Bangladesh (CHRD Bangladesh) had its first international seminar on July 18, 2021. The topic of discussion ..
India’s ruling party – the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) – has not only been chipping away at the rights of religious minorities in the courts since ..
In the not-too-distant future, I can foresee Afghanistan’s Taliban being discussed in hushed and hallowed tones by doctoral scholars of international ..
Bangladesh and China share bilateral relations based on mutual interests and opportunities. This relationship is becoming firm with increased stability ..
Airlines like using signature songs for their commercial advertising, and a few stick with the selected theme songs as brand identifiers. United Airlines ..
The assassination of the Haitian President last week by a group of foreign mercenaries is only the latest calamity to hit the Haitian people. Political ..
Three doctrines divide human civilization and destroy the unity of mankind. Racism The first is racism, to differentiate between black and white people. ..
Now well into the first year of his presidency, Joe Biden has offered very few clues about his approach to foreign policymaking. This is surprising. For someone ..
Israeli laws that discriminate against Palestinians are not only draconian, brutish, and unrelenting but they also are cloaked in words and phrases that ..
The complete restoration of the statehood of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) would come “at the appropriate time”, said Indian Prime Minister Narendra ..
Following the NATO summit in Brussels and the meeting between presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin, all eyes have now turned to China. The recent ..
Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s token gesture last week granting a mere CAD $300,000 ($243,000) to provincial schools to “combat Islamophobia,” is but one of many ..
Arnab Goswami, editor-in-chief of Republic TV and widely considered to be the Indian news media equivalent of Fox News host Tucker Carlson, asked his millions ..
The end of an era looms in Afghanistan after 20 years of a costly and tumultuous war. What began as a counterterrorism campaign to degrade Al-Qaeda soon ..
The 11-day war between Gaza and Israel The shock waves of the recent 11-day war between Gaza and Israel, between 10 May and 21 May 2021, have still ..
The BNP (Bangladesh Nationalist Party) and its Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman, face an integrated frequent disinformation campaign let loose by the incumbent ..
Were there not an Israel, the United States of America would have to invent an Israel to protect its interests.” – Joe Biden in 2015 when he was vice-president ..
When Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-MN) expressed her support for an ICC investigation into war crimes committed by both the United States and its enemies, ..
Iran’s presidential election was framed as a religious and national duty with heavy stress on participation. Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah ..
During Donald Trump’s one-term presidency, the US greatly retreated from international institutions like the United Nations in favor of an “America ..
Although Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been toppled, he remains the leader of Israel’s largest party in the Knesset. His enduring power was made ..
Here are the rules, OK? The United States is the greatest, most moral country to ever exist. It brings democracy to all the poor savages in the rest of the world, ..
As Canada reels from yet another Islamophobic attack, some three years after the Quebec City Mosque massacre and after revelations about the abuse of indigenous ..
The 11-day showdown between Israel and Palestinian factions in Gaza has changed the dynamics of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in many ways after years ..
My best friend has been coaxing me to go for walks with her for years. I have resisted for a long time. She gets up at ungodly hours to watch the sunrise ..
With the shock of India’s ongoing Covid-19 crisis, we should focus on ensuring that there isn’t another similar case. That means that vaccination efforts ..
We are led to believe that history is being made in Israel following the formation of an ideologically diverse government coalition that, for the first ..
In May 2020, journalist Mushtaq Ahmed was arrested along with cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore. Mr. Ahmed had simply published an article criticizing the fact ..
On the Ninth Day of Dhul-Hijjah, 10 A.H. (623 A.D.), Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), in his last sermon (Khutbah) in the Uranah Valley of Mount Arafat, ..
After the Trump presidency, the Biden administration has had to work overtime to reshape America’s image in the world. To that end, the State Department ..
The UAE signed the Abraham Accords in September 2020 with the declared aim of promoting peace and stability in the region. The accords’ scope extended ..
Recently, a long year after it was hit by a brutal wave of coronavirus cases, followed by widespread closures of its museums, theatres, concert halls and other ..
The Uyghurs have now become a strategic issue due to the Chinese persecution on one hand and an intense Western propaganda-focus on it on the other hand. ..
At a time when support for the two-state solution is almost at its lowest level, we are now repeatedly hearing this term. What makes such statements by Western ..
Bangladesh seems to have denied its entrance to the four-nation military alliance, the QUAD ( The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue), consisting of the U. S., Japan, ..
“Israeli forces are carrying out revenge attacks against us [Palestinians],” a long-time friend in occupied East Jerusalem told me last night. He was describing ..
The latest round of fighting between Israelis and Palestinians ended in the usual way: with a cease-fire that left Palestinians worse off and the core ..
When former US President Donald Trump scrapped the Iran Nuclear Deal and applied a “maximum pressure” campaign of sanctions, he was widely derided ..
Nearly all the words and phrases used by the Democrats, Republicans and the talking heads on the media to describe the unrest inside Israel and the heaviest ..
This is a story of a great tragedy that had a beginning a little more that seventy years ago but shows no signs of ever having an end. It is the tragedy ..
There’s no getting around the fact that certain geopolitical events and realities, including the United States-led “War on Terror” and the bitter ..
Once again, the imprisoned, besieged population of Gaza find themselves gripped by terror and death at the hands of Israel’s machines of war. The fact ..
Honorable Members of the United States Congress: The Coalition for Human Rights and Democracy in Bangladesh has made several contacts with ..
Under the Jewish occupation, the whole of Palestine has turned into an open-air prison. The Palestinians are terribly suffering for more than 70 years. ..
Earlier this week, I watched a video recorded by Roger Waters, the legendary English recording artist. He was addressing US President Joe Biden regarding ..
US President Joe Biden is forging ahead with the most progressive and forward-looking agenda since Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal in bringing economic ..
The ongoing Covid crisis in India is probably one of the worst humanitarian crises the world has witnessed in recent memory. The virus is on the rampage, ..
It was not that long ago at all when a number of Arab states, with the United Arab Emirates leading the vanguard, announced that they would be normalizing ..
The scenes out of India these days are harrowing. Human beings lying on the pavement, begging for a bed in a hospital, or at the very least, some supply ..
“The incumbent rulers of this country feel proud propagating that they strive to transform it to a global captain. They go all out in diverse ways ..
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Congratulations to President Elect Joseph R. Biden and Vice President Elect Kamala D. Harris.
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The rape incident at Begumganj in Noakhali has surpassed all other recent crimes. Especially, it shook people’s conscience after the video of the incident ..
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Even for those of us inured to the horrific and unceasing headlines detailing sexual violence against women across India, the brutal rape and murder of a 19-year-old ..
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For years, India has been promising to bring the killing of Bangladeshis along the Indo-Bangla border down to zero. But the reality is, border killings ..
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Indian Foreign Secretary, Harsh Vardhan Shringla abruptly reached Bangladesh on August 18 on an unscheduled visit. It was claimed that Sringla would go to Bangladesh ..
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The Indian foreign secretary, Harsh Vardhan Shringla’s hastily arranged and sudden visit to Dhaka is shrouded in mystery. The centerpiece of the visit ..
In a sudden and short visit, Indian foreign affairs secretary, Harsh Vardhan Shringla met Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina with a message from Narendra ..
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The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but those who watch them without doing anything,’ ~Albert Einstein The government of Bangladesh ..
