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About Rumana Hashem

Rumana Hashem is a sociologist and a secular women’s rights activist from Bangladesh who is opposed to prejudice of all kinds. Currently based at the Centre for Migration, Refugees and Belonging at University of East London, she has a PhD in Gender and Armed Conflict.

Articles by Rumana Hashem

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European integration

Six countries. Six different paths to EU integration.

No to TTIP

The secretive EU-US trade deal explained

Has rape become a weapon to silence atheists in Bangladesh?

Rumana Hashem 5 January 2018

“There is no place for me in Bangladesh," says a young woman blogger who fled the south Asian country in 2017 following a gang rape.

Why every secularist should boycott Trump’s US

Rumana Hashem and Piya Mayenin 12 February 2017

The Chair of the African Union Commission, has rightly noted, "The country to which many of our people were taken as slaves decides to ban refugees from some of our countries".