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Editorial
Migrant workers' rights
Ratify the 1990 UN Convention
What came out very loud and clear at the dialogue on "Safe Migration and Remittances" organised by the Daily Star and Refugee and Migratory Movement and Research Unit recently in Dhaka, is the strong rationale for ratifying the 1990 UN International Convention on the Protection of Rights of All Migrant Workers.
 
Editorial
New regional passport offices
Simpler, less bureaucratic issuance process is needed
The government move toward making it easier for citizens to acquire passports is commendable. It has reportedly decided to set up seventeen new regional passport offices at the district level and at the same time appoint processing agents to facilitate their functions.

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Sense & Insensibility
Wise leaders, VIPs and ...
Shahnoor Wahid
When we look at the options left with us to choose leaders to hand over the reins of governance, we fret in fear and we shrivel in shame.
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Extricating Bangladesh from corruption
A.B.M.S Zahur
Ours is a thoroughly corrupt society. For the last five years our country has been considered as the most corrupt country in the world.
 
The budget has ignored cooperative movement
Dhiraj Kumar Nath
The cooperative societies by their nature are enterprises that help macro- economic stability in the country. They maintain balance and integrate economic, environmental and social imperatives.
 

 
   
 
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