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?
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.
Over the past few weeks, almost every day, we have read news reports on clashes in the lead-up to the November 11 union parishad (UP) elections.
What are the risks associated with workers’ protests in modern-day Bangladesh? When workers take to the streets, what sort of treatment should they expect to receive?
The Covid-19 pandemic has been hard for everyone, but it has been especially so on children.
Bangalee revolutionary, feminist and social reformer Leela Nag’s century-old ancestral home, in Panchgaon village of Moulvibazar’s Rajnagar upazila, has been destroyed.
After 543 days of school closure, one of the most protracted education gaps in the world that was caused by the Covid-19 pandemic,
When you first read it, it may seem like something scripted for the silver screen: the story of a Bangladeshi woman who is struck by an awful tragedy—her 17-year-old daughter lured away by traffickers and forced to work in a brothel in India.
“Thousands of garment workers yesterday returned to work in industrial belts in Dhaka and elsewhere amid the nationwide shutdown, raising fears of a rapid spread of the novel coronavirus…”—this was the first sentence in a report in The Daily Star that was printed, not today, yesterday or the day before, but on April 30, 2020.
Bangla-desh is facing one of its worst weeks since the Covid-19 pandemic first hit the country in March last year. On Monday, we saw the highest daily death toll since the pandemic began (164 lives lost) and yesterday, we had the highest number of new Covid-19 infections detected over 24 hours (11,525 new cases).
I first met six-year-old Amina in the Kutupalong refugee camp in 2019. I couldn't help noticing the forlorn image of life in the camps she depicted—a child alone in a corner, playing with a pair of matchboxes instead of a toy.
