Author: Priya Saha

The Human Rights Congress for Bangladesh Minorities (HRCBM) along with various organizations have planned to carry out a car rally to hold anti-Pakistani protest for 1971 genocide in Washington. The organization will be carrying out the car rally on March 25, on the 50th anniversary of the 1971 liberation war. “We invite you to join the 50th Remembrance Day of Pakistan’s brutal genocide in Bangladesh. We demand that Magnitsky Act be applied to Pakistani war criminal as we honor the 3 million Bengalis who were murdered in 1971,” issued the Human Rights Congress for Bangladesh Minorities (HRCBM). The genocide in Bangladesh…

03/14/2021 Sudan (International Christian Concern) –According to a Globe Newswire press release, Dr. Victor Zaki has released a memoir chronicling his journey from his beloved homeland of Sudan, Africa, to the United States. “With my book, I wanted to share the beauty of the citizens of Sudan,” said Dr. Zaki. “They proved to be a positive light in the midst of the challenges our country faced.” Dr. Zaki worked as a medical doctor for 20 years throughout Sudan and hopes that his new book will inspire people to cling to their spirituality while in pursuit of their academic dreams. Throughout his story,…

Bangladesh is experiencing an epidemic of violence against women and girls. Access to justice has long been a challenge in Bangladesh, particularly for this type of violence. On many occasions these cases were dismissed as unsolvable and were simply ignored. The Lakingme Chakma case is no different from these other examples of violence against women and girls. We are also forgetting this case like the previous cases without taking further action to bring justice for her. Lakingme case has been also ignored, mostly because she is from an indigenous marginalised group. Indigenous women and girls are one of the most…

“His name isn’t on the list.”  Five years on, Najwa, who declined to give her surname for fear of being identified, still remembers feeling nauseous as she pleaded with a Syrian officer for information about her missing son, 16-year-old Hani. She later learned what had happened from a friend of his. Nabil, then 18, told her that a man working with the Syrian army had recruited the two teenagers to join troops based at Tabqa military airport, in the northern Raqqa governorate, to repel an assault by the Islamic State (IS) group.  “You Christians are our nation’s elite, Bashar [al-Assad]…

ISLAMABAD: Speakers from various countries have unanimously hailed the Chinese government’s role in development of its ethnic minority groups especially the way China has supported and protected the development of its ethnic minority groups while Muslims in Xinjiang Province.Participants from several countries including China, Russia, Pakistan and Egypt talked about China’s policies on its ethnic minority groups and agreed that the Uygur Muslims are enjoying full religious and ethnic rights and their right to worship and religion is fully protected under the law.Addressing a virtual conference held on the sidelines of the 46th Session of the UN Human Rights Council, the…

A screenshot from a social media video shows Shringi Nandan Yadav assaulting a minor in Ghaziabad Screengrab The incident gained public attention after a video of the 23-year-old temple caretaker, Shringi Nandan Yadav, beating the minor went viral A 14-year-old Muslim boy was beaten mercilessly on Friday inside a temple in Ghaziabad in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Hindustan Times reported.The incident gained public attention after a video of the 23-year-old temple caretaker, Shringi Nandan Yadav, beating the minor went viral.The video showed the accused asking the boy for his and his father’s name. Then he asked the boy…

Forum warns against victimisation of people if Citizenship (Amendment) Act is promulgated The Assam Christian Forum, representing all denominations of the church in the State, has appealed to the people to vote for candidates who work for an inclusive and secular society and uphold the Constitution. In the first such pre-election appeal, the forum also warned against the victimisation of people if the Citizenship (Amendment) Act is promulgated. The Act seeks to fast-track the citizenship of non-Muslims who reportedly fled religious persecution in Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan and took refuge in India till December 31, 2014. ACF spokesperson Allen Brooks…

Bindu N. Doddahatti: The Mandal Commission (1980) pegs the total share of Shudras/OBCs in the Indian population at about 52 per cent. We do not know the current total population of all OBCs, including upper OBCs, as no caste census has happened yet. Yet, as Professor Ilaiah has stated, “The Shudras remain vastly underrepresented in positions of power across all aspects of political, social and economic life, be it in government or business, religion or education. Particularly at the national level, they remain subordinate to Brahmins and Vaishyas—particularly Banias.” Social capital is a very useful tool to understand how intangible…

ANI | Updated: Mar 14, 2021 09:23 IST Beijing [China], March 14 (ANI): Uyghur women have found themselves the targets of some of Beijing’s cruellest tactics – featuring forced sterilisations and intrauterine devices (IUD) implantations–meant to slash birth rates, which dropped 24 per cent in 2019 in Xinjiang compared with 4.2 per cent nationwide.But women have also been the fiercest fighters for Uyghur freedom and self-empowerment. More and more Uyghur and Kazakh women who managed to escape China have come out in the past year and spoken about their experiences; despite threats from Chinese state security against them and their…

KOLKATA: PM Narendra Modi is set to visit the Matua temple at Orakandi in Bangladesh on March 27, the second day of his two-day trip to the neighbouring country. During his visit on the invitation of PM Sheikh Hasina, Modi will attend the 50th anniversary celebrations of Bangladesh’s independence, birth centenary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, and the 50th year of ties between the two nations. Matua face and BJP Bongaon MP Shantanu Thakur will be at Orakandi during Modi’s trip, the first such visit by an Indian PM. Orakandi is the birthplace of Matua gurus Harichand Thakur and Guruchand…

Workers Party of Bangladesh leaders and an academic on Saturday alleged that the government had moved away from four fundamental principles of the country’s founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. They also complained that the state religion and principle of secularism could not go together in the Constitution. They made the allegation in a discussion on ‘Bangabandhu and four fundamental principles’ at Engineers’ Institution in the capital marking Mujib’s birth centenary. The 1972 Constitution adopted during the reign of the Mujib government declared nationalism, socialism, democracy and secularism as fundamental principles of the republic. Workers’ Party is a partner of the…

An evangelical Christian has been named the head of national police in Indonesia. General Listyo Sigit Prabowoto has vowed to use the position to support minorities in the country and fight extremism. “The current president of Indonesia, Joko Widodo, has been a consistent advocate for minorities and especially minority religious groups, even though he himself is a committed Muslim,” says Vincent Michael of Forgotten Missionaries International. “He has been a real friend of Christians. So this appointment of Listyo Sigit Prabowo is not surprising considering Joko Widodo’s track record.” The decision to appoint Prabowoto to the position was made with approval…