No attempt to bring back women from Syria
While millions are fleeing war-torn Syria, many Bangladeshi women are being trafficked to the country and forced to work as domestic maids.
The women, who are duped into travelling to Syria, often have no idea that they are being sent to a war zone.
“Sister, please take me back home from this hell. They [the employers] are not good people. They say they have bought me and won’t let me go back to Bangladesh,” said a woman, who was promised a job in a Lebanese hospital but found herself forced into domestic service in the Syrian capital Damascus.
“There is war everywhere. They don’t give me food properly and I spend sleepless nights ![]()
EPZs may get trade unions; draft law approved
The cabinet today gave the final approval to the draft of the ‘The Bangladesh EPZ Labour Law, 2016’ keeping a provision for constituting labour organisations in the Export Processing Zones (EPZs) as well as forming a permanent wage board for their workers.
The approval came at the regular weekly meeting of the Cabinet held at Bangladesh Secretariat today with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair, reports UNB.
Cabinet Secretary Mohammad Shafiul Alam briefed reporters after the meeting.
He said the law is going to ...
Cabinet Secretary Mohammad Shafiul Alam briefed reporters after the meeting.
He said the law is going to ...
AHRC calls to take words of CJ with utmost seriousness
In a statement, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has called upon the UN and all the world governments to take the words of the Chief Justice (CJ) of Bangladesh with utmost seriousness and exert all pressures to stop the Executive from usurping the powers of the Judiciary. Bangladesh’s Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha has made a rare public statement; he has said the Executive is usurping all the powers of the Judiciary. He called upon all the judges and lawyers to come forward and fight against the Executive’s attempt to control the entire State and its institutions and thereby usurp all the power of Judiciary, AHRC said.
Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha has publicly said:
“Beware of the executive; it is trying to take away all our powers. The judiciary and the legal p...
Saudi-built cyclone shelters to be handed to BD
A total of 170 cyclone shelters funded by the Kingdom will be formally handed to the Bangladesh government this week in its coastal capital of Chittagong.
Prince Turki bin Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, chairman of the King Abdullah International Foundation for Humanitarian Activities, which funded the program, will leave for Dhaka on Monday to present the newly built shelters to the the Bangladesh government.
During the 2007 Cyclone Sidr, the Kingdom was the first country to donate $100 million to help Bangladesh in its relief efforts.
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Bloggers sent death threats by IS-linked militants
The bodies are piling up fast as murderous religious extremists linked to Islamic State wage a war of hatred.
Those left standing have fled their country in fear of their lives. But whether at home or overseas, these Bangladeshi bloggers won’t stop speaking out for secularism, equality and tolerance.
Niloy Neel was attacked in his home by three or four men with machetes, his wife pushed next door at gunpoint. He was dead in minutes, the fourth blogger to be brutally murdered this year, along with a publisher with ties to one of them.
Government ‘incapable of tolerating dissident views’
The government in Bangladesh is set on stopping dissenters from expressing their opinions, claims Nurul Kabir, the editor of the leading English-language daily newspaper New Age, in an interview with DW.
Bangladeshi protesters remember murdered journalists Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi
The shrinking space for free speech in Bangladesh has drawn international attention in recent months. The South Asian nation has seen a number of gruesome attacks on bloggers this year that left four people dead and several others critically injured.
The attacks have targeted not only bloggers, but also minority communities.
