Human Rights

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Source:Phonix via Irfan Khan of Germany. Today on 21.04.2013, at 17.00 houtrs Phönix will broadcast “Roland Berger” awards ceremony in the field of Human Rights. Dr Asma Jahangir of Pakistan has been honoured to get the award for her noble work in the field of “Women Rights in Pakistan” Congratulations to […]

Forced disappearances key problem

Source: The Daily Star The United States has identified forced disappearances, discrimination against marginalised groups, and poor working conditions and labour rights are the significant human rights problems in Bangladesh. In its annual human rights report, the State Department criticised a host of human rights problems in Bangladesh, particularly arbitrary […]

Saudi Arabia’s Feminist Revolution Has Begun

Source: The Daily Beast: Saudi women attend the Gulf youth conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on April 28, 2012. (Hassan Ammar/AP) The Kingdom’s government is reportedly allowing women to ride bicycles now. How nice—but what about actually doing something to end the country’s gender apartheid, asks David Keyes. More:   […]

Hundreds of New Yorkers protest political unrest in Bangladesh

source: pix11.com  http://landing.newsinc.com/wpix/video.html?freewheel=91044&sitesection=wpix&VID=24614910 http://embed.newsinc.com/Single/iframe.html?WID=1&VID=24614910&freewheel=69016&sitesection=wpix&width=601&height=338 NEW YORK (PIX11)- Hundreds of protesters gathered in front of the United Nations today. The group, predominantly Bangladeshi-Americans, came together over political unrest in Bangladesh. Life in the small South-Asian country has been disrupted over the past several months, many blaming Jamaat-e-Islami militant political group. The protesters outside of the […]

ISLAM COMPATIBLE WITH UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHTS NORM: APP

Islam compatible with universal human norms, Muslim scholars say NEW YORK, March 7 (APP): A conference of leading Muslim scholars from across the world, held in Istanbul earlier this week, adopted a strongly worded resolution that reaffirmed Islam’s compatibility with universal human norms and called on religious institutions in Afghanistan, Pakistan and neighbouring countries […]

Unpatriotic, Inhumane and Unislamic protests follow after Bangladesh court verdict of death sentence to Jamat-e-Islami leader for War Crimes

  Bangladesh police say death toll in rioting over death sentence for Islamic … Washington Post DHAKA, Bangladesh — Bangladesh police say death toll in rioting over death sentence for Islamic leader reaches 42. Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten […]

Bangladesh’s ‘Pakistani’ party

Courtesy: Hindustani Times    Indrajit Hazra Dhaka, February 26, 2013   The signs are there all over Dhaka. If it’s not blatant demands to “hang the war criminals” in posters and billboards surrounding Shahbagh Square where Bangladesh erupted on February 5, there are murals depicting demonic Islamist fundamentalists on the […]

Thousands join Shahbagh sit-in

Source: The Daily Star By Sushmita S Preetha Forty-two years after the Liberation War, sentiments of liberation were rekindled as thousands yesterday refused to leave the street and go home until their demand for capital punishment for war criminals were met. The spontaneous agitation began on Tuesday afternoon shortly after a […]