When protest seeks to punish through pressure, it crosses a clear ethical line
Students of polytechnic institutes yesterday announced to launch a long march to Dhaka if the government fails to respond to their six-point demand within 48 hours.
Today's rally comes a day after students staged a "Rise in Red" programme
Students of all polytechnic institutes across the country will stage a protest march after Juma prayers today.
The meeting began around 12:00pm at the Secretariat, where Rehana Yasmin, additional secretary (technical wing) of the Technical and Madrasah Education Division, met an 18-member delegation from Karigori Chhatro Andolon, Bangladesh.
The blockade has caused a long tailback on roads in the neighbouring areas.
Students arrived in small processions throughout the morning
Students demonstrate with the demand of 'decentralised Bangladesh'
Students and citizens across the country took to the streets yesterday, demanding urgent action to tackle the worsening law and order situation and the rise in rape, sexual violence, and mugging.
“There is only one life to live— In this lifetime, why should Rajakars have to be seen again?”
Student protestors are calling out the double standards of Western powers
Smith’s framing runs into the same blind spot in other criticisms levelled at student protests, i.e. it detaches the student’s cause from the activists, academics, and journalists, Palestinian or otherwise, who have been documenting Israel’s settler colonial project for 75 years.
Israel’s occupation of territories and desire to parcel all Palestinians as Arabs to the neighbouring countries have become blatantly clear.
Students have always been the first to engage in discourses on divisive borders with imagined, imposing lines, language, religion or tradition.
Additional District and Sessions Judge Rubaiya Yeasmin has been removed from Bogura and attached to the law ministry for forcing the mother of a student in the district to touch her feet and beg forgiveness
Women's achievements were overshadowed by the gendered inequalities they continue to face
Students and guardians of Viqarunnisa Noon School today blocked Mirpur Road in Dhanmondi-7, following a rumour that the local branch of the renowned institution will be shifted from the area .
Men must control their own base instincts instead of policing women's clothing.
The general assumption of these protestors seems to be that women dress to solely appease the male gaze.
