The people of Bangladesh have created an opportunity for themselves by way of a mass intervention in order to oust the rule of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, and as a result, she has fled the country after resigning from her position. The people were mostly led by students and independent movements of people rather than any traditional political parties. This uprising is a product of long years of suffering of the people under the regime of Hasina. Local and international human rights organisations have repeatedly commented on and protested against the large-scale violence unleashed by her regime on all persons who expressed any form of criticism or any independent views on affairs relating to Bangladesh. Heavy levels of censorship prevailed on all for...
On Monday, Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina reacted as she had so many other times when faced with anti-government resistance: She
vowed to use a heavy hand, undeterred by the officials who
Sir Frank Peters
The chief justice of India, Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud, has issued a stern warning against the ill effects of corporal punishment from personal experience as a victim. Speaking at a seminar in Kathmandu last Saturday, he recalled when he was caned at school. The incident occurred when he was a Class 5 pupil. The eminent jurist is now 65.
That time-lapse alone speaks volumes about its evil. Corporal punishment is never forgotten, only pushed...
Sir Frank Peters
TODAY (Tuesday, April 30) is International End Corporal Punishment Day, which is a day set aside to grip every country by its green-edged borders that has not already banned the horrific practice, give it a good ‘wake-up’ shake into reality, and awaken it to the colossal harm it’s doing to its children.
Sometimes it takes more than one vigorous shake for governments in semi-permanent hibernation, to wake up to the cruel reality and hypocrisy of their claim tha...
M. Kabir Hassan, PhD and Mashuk Rahman
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The 2023 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics ...
By Rozina Ali
When President Biden landed in Tel Aviv days after Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre of more than 1,400 people, he told an audience of Israelis that this was not just Israel’s Sept. 11, that “it was like 15 9/11s.”
The comparison, which emerged widely and immediately, seemed apt on the surf...
