Bangladesh Interfaith forum accuses ruling Awami League of failing to implement election pledges to protect religious minorities Activists gather at the national conference of the Bangladesh Hindu-Buddhist-Christian Unity Council in Dhaka on Jan. 7 to demand rights for minority groups. (Photo: Stephan Uttom/UCA News) Ahead of next year’s general election in Bangladesh, an interfaith forum has accused the ruling Awami League of failing to implement its past election promises to protect religious minorities in the Muslim-majority nation.Attacks on houses, shrines and businesses belonging to minorities, land grabbing, abduction and rape of girls, forced conversions and verbal threats have become a…
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The United States Department of State has declared the Rohingya victims of Myanmar’s military as genocide during a formal announcement made by Secretary Antony Blinken on Monday. As per Voice of America, the Rohingya were a Muslim Minority in Myanmar that the dominant Buddhist government’s military has executed. Blinken recounted in his speech the widespread and systematic inhuman treatment the Rohingya victims experienced. “Beyond the Holocaust (of Nazi-era Germany), the United States has concluded the genocide was committed seven times. Today marks the eighth as I’ve determined that members of the Burmese military committed genocide and crimes against humanity against…
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ANI | Updated: Mar 23, 2022 12:51 IST Beijing [China], March 23 (ANI): China has threatened the United States with retaliatory sanctions after Washington announced visa restrictions on officials over human rights violations in the country.The United States has imposed visa restrictions on Chinese officials for their role in the repression of ethnic and religious minority groups inside and outside China.At a press conference on Tuesday, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin accused the US of “ideological bias”. He said, “The US is in no position to pass judgement.” “The US statement, full of ideological bias and political lies,…
National rankings found North Dakota’s health care system does well in terms of overall performance, but access and affordability are problem areas, prompting more discussions about connecting more populations with quality care. This past week, the North Dakota Voices Network hosted a forum on health equity issues. Whitney Fear, a psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner at Family HealthCare and member of the Oglala Lakota Nation, spoke about barriers facing Indigenous populations. She said Native Americans are underrepresented in the health care workforce. While it does not mean non-Indigenous staff cannot care for these patients, the gap still has an…
JAKARTA, Indonesia — A new report has found that Facebook failed to detect blatant hate speech and calls to violence against Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim minority years after such behavior was found to have played a determining role in the genocide against them. The report shared exclusively with The Associated Press showed the rights group Global Witness submitted eight paid ads for approval to Facebook, each including different versions of hate speech against Rohingya. All eight ads were approved by Facebook to be published. The group pulled the ads before they were posted or paid for, but the results confirmed that…
Inclusion of physical and mental disability as a protective ground in the Constitution will mainstream disability in the public and constitutional law discourse A few days back, a woman using a wheelchair was denied entry into a club in Gurugram as she could reportedly cause “disturbance” to other customers. The Indian Constitution guarantees a fundamental right to access public places. But does this right also extend to persons with disabilities? It is often the case that whenever individuals feel wronged and violated, they inevitably go back to the Constitution to look for answers and remedies. The Constitution has been an…
Bangladesh Research notes that Islamic preachers are among those who have gone missing in the Muslim-majority country In this picture taken on Feb. 9, the mother of Sajedul Islam Suman, an official of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party who disappeared after allegedly being picked up by Rapid Action Battalion officers in December 2013, holds a photograph of her son. (Photo: AFP) A study on enforced disappearances in Bangladesh shows that one-third of victims are from capital Dhaka and 7 percent are Islamic preachers in the Muslim-majority South Asian nation.These finding appeared in “Where are They? Enforced Disappearances in Bangladesh,”…
Abhishek Pratap 1 day ago News 7 Views The United States has formally determined that the Myanmar army committed genocide and crimes against humanity in a violent campaign against the Rohingya minority, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Monday. Blinken also said that as long as the military junta is in power, no one in the country will be safe. Share by WhatsApp Share via Telegram In announcing the decision, Blinken said that the attacks against the Rohingya were widespread and systematic and that the evidence points to a clear intention to destroy the minority (the Rohingya are…
UPDATED at 7:18 P.M. ET on 2022-03-22 The U.S. government has imposed new sanctions against Chinese officials over the repression of Uyghurs in China and elsewhere, prompting an angry response from Beijing and a pledge to respond with sanctions of its own. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday said the U.S. would restrict visas on unnamed individuals he said were involved in repressive acts by China against members of ethnic and religious minority groups inside and outside the country’s borders, including within the U.S. “We are committed to defending human rights around the world and will continue to…
International oi-Madhuri Adnal | Published: Wednesday, March 23, 2022, 8:09 [IST] Dhaka, Mar 23: Bangladesh was the most polluted country in the world in 2021, says the World Air Quality Report prepared by the Swiss-based air quality technology company IQAir in its latest report released on Tuesday. In terms of particulate matter in the air, Bangladesh recorded an average PM2.5 level of 76.9 micrograms per cubic metre in 2021 against the World Health Organisation (WHO) recommended maximum permissible level of 5 micrograms per cubic metre. Earlier, in 2018, 2019 and 2020 also Bangladesh was found to be the most polluted…
According to a Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics report, there are about 16 million disabled people in Bangladesh, equivalent to approximately 10% of the total population.In our society, it is often seen that a disabled member of a family is frequently humiliated by their family and society in general, and is subjected to numerous social deprivations. Moreover, the tendency to deprive such people of property is a very normal phenomenon in our society. Even though other religions have granted such persons the right to property, Hinduism has stripped them of their portion of the property entirely.In Bangladesh, the majority of Hindus…