The protesters have highlighted various incidents including attacks on sex workers, harassment of students over clothing choices, moral policing, and assaults on girls’ football fields,…
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Category: Politics
‘There is no question of Jamaat-Shibir coming to power. They are unsafe for the country. And the people have not forgotten their role in 1971’
Bangladesh remains communally harmonious. The allegations of persecution of minorities are baseless. Compared to the past, reactionary groups are behaving more sensitively. In the eyes…
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The Fate of a ‘Patsy’
The battlefields of Ukraine are not shaped by Downing Street pronouncements or Élysée declarations, but by decisions made in Washington and Moscow. The great European…
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Ukraine citizens flee frontline: War stretches for four years
Communities on the frontline of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine are being killed, injured and displaced on a daily basis, as the war grinds on…
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Lipstick on a Pig
This is not merely an affront to history—it is an obscenity, a vision of progress built on the rubble of an uprooted people. For Palestinians,…
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‘Some of us are dealt more difficult cards than others’
Arnold Schwarzenegger honoured Hodžić’s exceptional sportsmanship and character, recalling the greatness of the Prijedor native, who, along with his family, was taken from their home…
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‘Don’t touch me, don’t touch me!’
Two little girls stare back from the photograph, their hands wrapped in heavy bandages. One is perhaps around five-years-old, the other barely three, innocence peeping…
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Guterres calls for full Gaza ceasefire, rejecting ‘ethnic cleansing’
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has urged the international community to continue pushing for a full ceasefire and the release of all hostages in Gaza, and…
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Now, the West Bank!
The UN human rights office has expressed grave concerns over escalating violence in the Jenin area of the occupied West Bank, condemning the use of…
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Syria: Rights probe reveals systematic torture and detention of Assad regime
The report outlines harrowing accounts of abuse, including severe beatings, electric shocks, rape, mutilation and prolonged psychological and physical torture. Survivors and witnesses described dire…
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