Author: Priya Saha

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…

“Voting rights of women, religious minorities, and those living in remote areas have to be ensured,” Dr Debapriya Bhattacharya added TBS Report 22 March, 2022, 12:35 pm Last modified: 22 March, 2022, 02:40 pm File photo of Dr Debapriya Bhattacharya. Picture: CPD”> File photo of Dr Debapriya Bhattacharya. Picture: CPD Election time government should have no interest to influence the outcome of the polls, said Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) Distinguished Fellow and former Bangladesh Ambassador to WTO, Dr Debapriya Bhattacharya. “I feel the election-time government should have no special interest to influence the results of the election. If the poll-time government…

Yastika’s fifty helped India to 229 before Sneh Rana took four wickets to bundle out Bangladesh for 119 Yastika’s fifty helped India to 229 before Sneh Rana took four wickets to bundle out Bangladesh for 119 Yastika Bhatia’s gritty half-century and Sneh Rana’s all-round performance powered India to a dominating 110-run win over Bangladesh and kept them in the hunt for a semifinal spot at the ICC Women’s World Cup here on Tuesday. Opting to bat, India recovered from a mid-innings collapse to post a modest 229 for seven, riding a responsible 80-ball 50 by Bhatia and a late flourish…

Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday announced visa restrictions against unidentified Chinese officials accused of repressive acts targeting religious minorities and dissidents. File Photo by Yuri Gripas/UPI | License Photo March 22 (UPI) — The Biden administration has imposed visa restrictions against Chinese officials accused of being involved in “repressive acts” committed against ethnic and religious minority groups and dissidents inside and outside of Beijing’s borders. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced the visa restrictions against unidentified Chinese officials in a statement on Monday, stating those barred from entering the United States are believed to be complicit in…

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken Photo : APUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced new visa restrictions on Chinese officials Monday for their actions to repress ethnic and religious minorities both inside and outside the country.In a statement, which provided no specific details on which officials would be targeted, Blinken also reiterated a call for China to “end its ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity” in the northwestern region of Xinjiang.Xinjiang is in the grip of a years-long “anti-terrorism” campaign that has seen more than a million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities detained in a sprawling network of “re-education”…

A “shocking trend” of people from ethnic minority backgrounds paying hundreds of pounds a year more for their car insurance than white people has been highlighted by Citizens Advice. As part of a year-long investigation, the charity analysed 18,000 car insurance costs reported by people across England and Wales who came to Citizens Advice for debt help in 2021. It found that, on average, people from ethnic minority backgrounds paid £250 a year more than white people – regardless of gender, age and income. The Association of British Insurers (ABI) said insurers never use ethnicity as a factor when setting…

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…

Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has said his government treats people belonging to religious minorities as equal citizens, has given them a quota in jobs and set up a special desk in the home department to redress their grievances then and there. “On the ticket of our party, the PPP, one MPA Gianchand Israni and MNA Dr Mahesh Malani of minorities were directly elected from Sindh, and this shows our commitment to the minorities and interfaith harmony in the province we have developed,” he said on Monday while talking to a delegation of the National Commission for Minorities…

Mushtaq was tortured for hours and eventually killed, his body hung from a tree. A handful of police officers were among those who watched.The Feb 12 killing in the district of Khanewal was denounced across Pakistan. Prime Minister Imran Khan said the government had “zero tolerance” for such mob violence and promised that the police officers would be punished.But lynching over offences to Islam, real or imagined, are far from new in Pakistan, where blasphemy is punishable by death. Rights activists say lynch mobs exploit anti-blasphemy laws to take matters into their own hands.In recent years these episodes have risen…

Selwyn Duke What percentage of the United States is black? Non-black Americans guess 39 percent. Black Americans say 52 percent. The actual figure? Twelve percent. Americans also suppose homosexuals and lesbians constitute 30 percent of the country. They’re actually just three percent. People further believe that 26 percent of our population has a $500,000-plus household income; the real figure is one percent. The above are just some data from a recent YouGov poll finding that with few exceptions, Americans are seriously detached from their country’s demographic reality. It’s a phenomenon with grave social and political implications. Published Tuesday, the survey…

The United States has formally determined that violence committed against the Rohingya minority by Myanmar’s military amounts to genocide and crimes against humanity, US officials have told the Reuters news agency. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will announce the decision on Monday at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, US officials told the Reuters news agency, which currently features an exhibit on the plight of the Rohingya. It comes nearly 14 months after he took office and pledged to conduct a new review of the violence. Myanmar’s armed forces launched a military operation in 2017 that forced…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration intends to declare that Myanmar’s years-long repression of the Rohingya Muslim population is a “genocide,” U.S. officials said Sunday.Secretary of State Antony Blinken plans to make the long-anticipated designation on Monday at an event at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, according to the officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because the move had not yet been publicly announced. The designation does not in and of itself portend drastic new measures against Myanmar’s military-led government, which has already been hit with multiple layers of U.S. sanctions since the campaign against the Rohingya ethnic minority…