Author: Priya Saha

Executive Director at Human Rights Congress for Bangladesh Minorities | Priya Saha is the Executive Director of Human Rights Congress for Bangladesh Minorities (HRCBM). HRCBM is an NGO in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations.

Denmark coach Kasper Hjulmand included midfielder Eriksen in the 23-man squad that will play against Netherlands and Serbia in friendly internationals at the end of this month.”I expect Christian to go in and be a deciding factor for our team,” Hjulmand told Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet.”I did not expect him to play right now, realistically I thought he would be ready by the summer. However Christian is with the squad because he is the best in that position.”The 30-year-old signed for Premier League side Brentford in January as a free agent for the rest of the season after Inter Milan…

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Reuters 15 March, 2022, 04:45 pm Last modified: 15 March, 2022, 04:47 pm elatives of Palestinian Nader Ryan, who was killed by Israeli forces during clashes, react at his funeral in Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on 15 March 2022. REUTERS/Raneen Sawafta”> elatives of Palestinian Nader Ryan, who was killed by Israeli forces during clashes, react at his funeral in Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on 15 March 2022. REUTERS/Raneen Sawafta Israeli forces shot dead two Palestinians in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said, in what Israeli border police described as clashes that…

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Mohammad Amjad Hossain   | Published: March 15, 2022 22:35:04 It is regrettable to note that there is no sign of any progress in negotiations over repatriation of the Rohingya ethnic minority of Myanmar from Bangladesh who were subjected to ruthless expulsions by Myanmar armed forces in 2017.  Bangladesh signed a bilateral agreement with Myanmar on 30 October 2017 and on 30 October of 2018 without involving UN HCR for repatriation of the Rohingya.  The Prime Minister of Bangladesh also has spoken about the Rohingya at 76th session of the General Assembly of the United Nations wherein she mentioned the…

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When Aliya Assadi was 12, she wore a hijab while representing her southern Indian state of Karnataka at a karate competition. She won gold. Five years later she tried to wear one to her junior college, the equivalent of a U.S. high school. She never made it past the campus gate, turned away under a new policy barring the religious headgear. “It’s not just a piece of cloth,” Assadi said while visiting a friend’s house. She wore a niqab, an even more concealing garment that veils nearly the entire face with just a slit for the eyes, which she dons…

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Police should introduce quotas to increase the number of ethnic minority officers, says Britain’s first and only black chief constable.Calling for “positive discrimination”, Mike Fuller, formerly Kent’s chief constable and a non-executive director of the Home Office, said Northern-Irish style recruitment quotas for black and ethnic minority candidates could be seen by the community as “righting a wrong”.He said that black communities felt “overpoliced and underprotected” and warned that without more black and ethnic minority officers, there would continue to be a lack of trust and confidence within the black community in the police service.Black, Asian and other people of…

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A new, assertive feminist movement has swept Pakistan ​in the past five years. Led by a younger generation of women, it is confronting entrenched patriarchy in the country and demanding radical reforms to protect the rights of other marginalised communities and gender minorities. ​What began as an annual march to observe International Women’s Day on 8 March has evolved into a sustained campaign for social, political, economic and judicial reform. ​​This iteration of Pakistani women’s rights amplifies voices and raises awareness through rallies in major cities including Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad. It makes extensive use of digital platforms for…

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Mali’s military government contested the findings by New York-based Human Rights Watch.Army abuses in the centre and southwest of Mali, including executions of the elderly and children, have risen as soldiers attempt to counter an Islamist insurgency that has swept across the country since 2012.”There has been a dramatic spike in the number of civilians, including suspects, killed by the Malian army and armed Islamist groups,” said Corinne Dufka, Sahel director at Human Rights Watch. The abuses likely amounted to war crimes, she said.Over the same period, Islamist militants killed 36 civilians, Human Rights Watch said.Mali’s government did not respond…

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Letters submitted by BDN readers are verified by BDN Opinion Page staff. Send your letters to letters@bangordailynews.com. This Olympics has given us all a clear view of how greed is in control. China’s authoritarian government seems to care only about absolute control and humans are mere paving stones on the road to dominance. Russia desperately wants to regain superpower status. Killing people is just a necessary move on the way to dominance. In China, a cultural and religious minority is being  wiped out. In Russia, a  15-year-old girl is just fodde r for a cruel public relations campaign. I think the Chinese and…

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The visiting BJP Foreign Affairs Department In-charge Dr. Vijay Chauthaiwale held a meeting with senior leaders of the ruling Awami League in Dhaka on Monday.   They exchanged views on several issues of mutual interest and discussed ways to enhance party interactions at various levels, said Dr. Chauthaiwale in a social media post. Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport Minister Obaidul Quader led the Awami League delegation during talks with Dr. Vijay Chauthaiwale. Several senior leaders including Awami League praesidium member Matia Chowdhury and Kazi Zafarullah and office Secretary Biplab Barua were present during the meeting. They stressed the…

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Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma is an extremely worried man. That’s because his state has become a haven for Islamist fundamentalists and terrorists, or jihadists. They come from the illegal Muslim migrants from Bangladesh or their descendants.Sarma, earlier last week, openly expressed his apprehension about the presence of many jihadists in Assam. “This is very ominous for Assam,” he had said. Sarma was reacting to the confessional statements of five jihadists with links to the (aQIS) who were by Assam Police from Barpeta district of the state late last week.According to top police officers of the state, sustained interrogations…

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NAIROBI (Reuters) – At least 53 people died in western Ethiopia after an unidentified armed group attacked a civilian convoy and its military escort in a region plagued by ethnic violence, a rights body appointed by the government said on Sunday.The previously unreported attack occurred on March 2 in Metekel, in the Benishangul-Gumuz region, the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission said.Twenty soldiers and three civilians were killed in the ambush, while 30 attackers died during the day-long gun battle that followed.Eleven more people were killed the following day – including one who was burned alive – as security forces rounded up…

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