There has been a silent consensus on turning a blind eye to rights abuses of our migrant workers.
The main question now is to what extent the ICJ order will create pressure on Israel’s allies.
Even in 2023, there are a number of very basic rights that Bangladeshi girls don't have.
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.
Latest attack lays bare the relentless gendered violence faced by Bangladeshi women.
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.”
Will the new king finally apologise for the atrocities committed in the name of the crown?
According to media reports, there are around 3,310 seats at halls but at least 12,000 students unlawfully inhabit them, with up to 12-15 students living in one room.
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.
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?
The next stage of Bangladesh-India relations should involve long-term, innovative projects.
Rohingya human rights activist Razia Sultana talks to Shuprova Tasneem from The Daily Star on Rohingya Genocide Remembrance Day.
Media has a responsibility to stop sensationalising stories about women and focus on the wider inequalities that affect them.
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.
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.
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.
A couple of weeks ago, I spent the night in a district town’s Parjatan hotel.
