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Accountability
Myanmar: From Bad to Worse, to Horrific
The expert presented a grim assessment of 1.3 million displaced people; 28,000 destroyed homes; more than 13,000 children killed; a looming food crisis; and...
Agri-business
Bangladesh Plans for Food Security; Set to Import Rice from India, Vietnam; Wheat from Russia
Officials say that the exports are to replenish reserves and cool domestic prices. The country anticipates a fall in the production of rice following...
Accountability
The World Owes the Rohingyas their Right to Human Dignity
For the hundreds and thousands of Rohingya refugees who entered southern Bangladesh through beaches and paddy fields in 2017, “they brought with them accounts...
Democracy
Shrinking Job Market Deepens Economic Crisis in Myanmar
New ILO estimates shows that Myanmar remains deeply affected by job losses in first half of 2022 as employment remains well below 2020 levels...
Democracy
The Politics of the Hangman’s Noose: Judge, Jury and Executioner
The death penalty is inconsistent with the right to life and the right to be free from torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment...
Accountability
Myanmar Executes Four Pro-Democracy Activists
As part of democratic reforms in 2014, the sentences of prisoners on death row were commuted to life imprisonment. But several dozen convicts received...
Bangladesh
India’s Bangladeshi Bogeyman
During the 2019 election campaign, then BJP president and now Home Minister, Amit Shah, described Bengali-speaking Muslims in border states as ‘termites’—invoking the same...
Accountability
Myanmar’s Junta Isn’t Even Sparing Children, Says UN Rights Expert
The Human Rights Council-appointed investigator said that Myanmar’s military junta’s violence against children caught up in the bloody aftermath of last February’s coup is...
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Shrinking Himalayan Glaciers Spell Trouble Downstream
Researchers strive to better understand melting glaciers on Asian mountain peaks, the Earth’s ‘Third Pole,’ in light of devastating...
Five Decades On, Bangladesh Debates If Its Constitution Retains the Spirit of Liberation War
Eminent citizens from all walks of life feel that successive constitutional amendments have been made for political, personal gains...
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