Timothy Sowula has worked at Human Rights Watch and Platform London, and now works in Sylhet, Bangladesh as a programme officer for an indigenous community-rights organisation.

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The pre-election crisis in Bangladesh has concentrated power in the president and dispersed it to the streets. A longer-term solution is needed, says Timothy Sowula.

The hostage-taking strategy of militants in the oil-soaked Nigerian south is a symptom of the region's economic and environmental breakdown, for which western powers bear a key responsibility, says Timothy Sowula.

A 1975 agreement between the Soviet-bloc countries and the democratic west gave east-central Europe’s “dissidents” a valuable human-rights language to unlock communism’s ideological deep freeze. Timothy Sowula reports on a Prague anniversary conference.