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.
5m 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.
10m 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
September 28, 2021
World News Day: In defence of the messenger
Today, September 28, is observed globally as World News Day.
August 30, 2021
No flowers for the birthday boy
December 2, 2013 was the birthday of Mahfuzur Rahman’s—a Chhatra Dal leader of Bangshal—son. Mahfuz promised his son that he would bring him flowers on the occasion and went out to buy flowers in Shahbagh.
August 26, 2021
The desperate plight of workers in pandemic
They work in mills and factories, also under tin sheds in squalid conditions. They begin their long days commuting in crammed public transport vehicles or taking long walks, braving monsoon rain or summer heat.
July 27, 2021
The case for unfettered internet freedom
As human beings, we enjoy the right to think and express ourselves.
July 5, 2021
Covid reality, Hindutva and the state of academic freedom
“The situation is alarming, ghastly and uncertain. Deaths all around and institutions seem to be collapsing fast. More seriously, there is no able political head who can lead the nation at this stage of serious crisis”.
June 18, 2021
The long wait for a caring and rights-respecting state
The Covid-19 pandemic has thrown major challenges to public policy framing. While responses of the states to the pandemic differed significantly,
June 1, 2021
When the pen becomes a security threat
he Digital Security Act (DSA) has claimed its latest victim. Last Saturday, police arrested Shahnewaz Chowdhury (37), a diploma engineer of Chattogram’s Banshkhali upazilla, after a case was filed under the DSA for posting a Facebook status.
May 20, 2021
Brazen Violations, Bizarre Charges
It was quite a sight. Viewers of television channels and readers of the dailies that carried the images of incarcerated journalist Rozina Islam were baffled at the scale of security measures taken by the state.
May 17, 2021
I cannot sing, how I can be free?
So far they pursued their vocations with enthusiasm and passion, and enjoyed doing so. Now forced by the circumstances most can no longer be engaged in their professional activities and have to pass their days in intense uncertainty.
May 3, 2021
World Press Freedom Day: Unattained aspiration
As a nation Bangladeshis commemorated the golden jubilee of their independence a little more than a month ago.
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