ICJ ruling puts current global order on trial
The main question now is to what extent the ICJ order will create pressure on Israel’s allies.
We must radically reimagine girls’ rights
Even in 2023, there are a number of very basic rights that Bangladeshi girls don't have.
No more aid and no real solutions
Despite the international recognition, the global outpouring of support (at the time), and the crisis in Myanmar that has now escalated into civil war – the world seems to have moved on.
Too unsafe to even play football?
Latest attack lays bare the relentless gendered violence faced by Bangladeshi women.
What is the fracas on the Barishal uni question paper really about?
A Dhallywood dialogue recently created a social media storm by cropping up in a more unusual place: a question paper for Bangladesh Studies in the University of Barishal, where students were asked to examine it in the “light of British hegemony in the Indian subcontinent.”
Forget the coronation, let’s talk about colonialism
Will the new king finally apologise for the atrocities committed in the name of the crown?
September 25, 2022
SAFF champions' treatment shows how we devalue women
To be seen, to simply exist and take up space – on sporting fields, in courts of justice, on buses and in public office – shouldn’t have to be a revolutionary act.
September 6, 2022
Have we forgotten about dignity?
If people in a country with so much development and progress can’t even expect to have a dignified life, or death, then what was it all for?
September 5, 2022
‘Bangladesh can’t wait forever to resolve the Teesta issue’
The next stage of Bangladesh-India relations should involve long-term, innovative projects.
August 25, 2022
‘Rohingya refugees need education to take control of their future’
Rohingya human rights activist Razia Sultana talks to Shuprova Tasneem from The Daily Star on Rohingya Genocide Remembrance Day.
August 15, 2022
A woman is dead. Why are we gossiping about her personal life?
Media has a responsibility to stop sensationalising stories about women and focus on the wider inequalities that affect them.
March 22, 2022
Our apathy towards the suicide epidemic
Every death is a tragedy, but when a young life is cut short, there is almost always a deeper level of empathy, a shared commiseration at the sadness of a life not lived.
December 16, 2021
‘We must stand united to uphold the spirit of our Liberation War’
On the occasion of Victory Day, Mofidul Hoque, war crimes researcher and trustee of the Liberation War Museum, speaks to Shuprova Tasneem of The Daily Star about the incredible journey that Bangladesh has gone through, and what must be done to preserve that history.
December 8, 2021
Murad’s mind-numbing misogyny
State Minister for Information and Broadcasting Murad Hassan has been made to resign from his post, at the specific instructions of the prime minister of Bangladesh, and women across the country who have been following the recent developments in this regard have breathed a collective sigh of relief.
November 30, 2021
How long will patriarchal mindsets impede gender justice?
A couple of weeks ago, I spent the night in a district town’s Parjatan hotel.
November 14, 2021
Who is this ‘development’ for?
The first displacement happened in the 1950s. The Pakistani government acquired about 1,842 acres in Gobindaganj, Gaibandha in northern Bangladesh (erstwhile East Pakistan), promising both the local Santal and Bengali communities employment as labourers in the sugarcane farm that would be set up on that land.
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