Challenges that our migrant workers face
Bangladeshi migrant workers require a range of services and support at both the origin and destination ends.
4m ago
Human rights enjoyment in a red zone?
In almost all cases involving opposition activists, they were found guilty
4m ago
The flipside of the democracy carnival
Bereft of the basic rights to assemble and express, let alone protest, the people of Bangladesh are currently bearing the brunt of the coercive apparatuses of the state.
4m ago
Has the ICC lost traction on Rohingya genocide case?
The resolution of the Rohingya crisis appears to have met a dead end. Quite predictably, yet another round of questionable repatriation efforts has stalled.
9m ago
Attaining zero target on border killing
Killing of civilians along the Bangladesh-India border by India’s Border Security Force (BSF) has plagued the bilateral relations between the two countries for decades.
10m ago
Vital yet vulnerable
Near absence of an affordable and accessible healthcare arrangement in the Gulf states has led many workers to rely on self-medication, often consuming expired medicines brought from home by themselves and their peers.
10m ago
Why the DSA should be scrapped
A major weakness of the law is its inconsistency with the other existing laws.
11m ago
Was it really about 'protecting the interest of the child'?
As the government came under international scrutiny for curtailing freedom of expression, the question of child exploitation became the rallying point.
1y ago
June 2, 2022
Syndicates in migration: Re-accessing the Malaysian labour market
Is a nexus of a few Bangladeshi recruitment agencies and a powerful segment of the human resources ministry in Malaysia trying to impose unfair and unethical conditions on the long-awaited reopening of the Malaysian labour market?
May 15, 2022
Return of enforced disappearance and extrajudicial killing?
It was a sombre occasion at the Dhaka Reporters Unity premises on April 30.
April 5, 2022
How can we stop migrant workers’ deaths abroad?
Shobuj, a young man from Tangail, in his late twenties, was reluctant to comply with his supervisor’s instruction to enter a sewage pipe for maintenance work without an oxygen cylinder.
February 20, 2022
Surviving re-entry to Malaysian labour market is key
It has been two months since a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Bangladesh and Malaysia on the employment of Bangladeshi workers was signed, marking the end of a suspension on their entry to the Malaysian labour market which had been in force since 2018.
January 28, 2022
Impropriety, Irregularity and Impunity
After seven long days, the 28 protesting students of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) ended their hunger strike, bringing relief to their loved ones and fellow protesters.
January 18, 2022
The High Court said they were Bangladeshis
The members of camp-dwelling Urdu-speaking community (CDUSC) are both baffled and dismayed over a series of recent decisions by the Bangladesh government.
December 27, 2021
The indefatigable public intellectual and political mobiliser
A small incident took place at a school in Burdwan in 1944. A class teacher of Grade 7 was wrongly reprimanding a student, accusing him of stacking all the high benches of the classroom against the short ones the previous evening, when a lanky boy stood up and said, “It was not Abanti, it was me.” Impressed by the boy’s moral courage, the teacher excused him.
December 18, 2021
International Migrants Day: Reintegration must be a pillar of labour migration
December 18 marks the International Migrants Day.
December 10, 2021
Human Rights Day: Why the chasm between state commitments and access to rights?
December 10 marks the Human Rights Day (HRD).
October 14, 2021
We must stand firm against incursions into academic freedom
What is academic freedom? Why is academic freedom a necessary condition for educational institutions?
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