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Showing posts with label Violence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Violence. Show all posts
Mar 12, 2020

South Asia’s rape scourge and moral degradation

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Parents protest against the school authorities after a eight-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a school boy, at the Sacred Heart Conven...

Bangladesh's dismal human rights record even murkier in 2019

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A suspect inside a vehicle following a court verdict last October that sentenced 16 people to death over the murder of a 19-year-old femal...
Feb 9, 2018

Bangladesh faces spring of discontent ahead of election

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Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader Khaleda Zia speaks at a press conference in Dhaka on Feb. 7. She proclaimed her innocence of cor...
Dec 8, 2017

Why Bangladeshi elections are a time for violence against minorities

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Hindus walk past a burned down house after a Muslim mob attack in northern Bangladesh in this file photo A rally of 19 minority rig...

No relief for Bangladesh's most vulnerable communities

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An elderly female tea-plucker works in one of Bangladesh's many tea gardens in this file image. (Photo by Mufty Munir/AFP) There ...
Aug 22, 2017

Indigenous peoples struggle for survival in Bangladesh

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An indigenous Garo girl lights a candle in Dhaka, Aug. 8, 2016, to mark the International Day for the World’s Indigenous Peoples. (uca...

Land grabbing drives lawlessness and deaths in Bangladesh

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An indigenous Santal man in Dinajpur district (Photo: Rock Ronald Rozario) In separate incidents last week, a tribal Santal man...
Aug 4, 2014

Bangladesh police make arrest in killing of tribal villager

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Tribal villagers carry the body of a fellow villager allegedly murdered by Muslims over a land dispute in northern Bangladesh (Photo: Antuni...
Jul 22, 2014

Thousands rally in Bangladesh against attack on nuns

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Catholic nuns join a protest rally in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka over recent attack on Catholic nuns in the country. (Photo: Rock Ronald...
Jul 23, 2012

Violence, apathy imperil journalists

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A sudden and sharp rise in attacks on journalists recently has raised several questions about press freedom in Bangladesh’s fledg...