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William Gomes is a Bangladeshi journalist and human rights activist, and was a visiting fellow at the Centre for Applied Human Rights at the University of York in 2012. He has also worked for the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC). Follow him on twitter @wnicholasgomes.

Articles by William Gomes

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European integration

Six countries. Six different paths to EU integration.

No to TTIP

The secretive EU-US trade deal explained

Reason and responsibility: the Rana Plaza collapse

William Gomes 9 May 2013

The Rana Plaza tragedy was an outcome of a corrupt system that is rotten to the core. Who should - and can - be held accountable?

Shahbagh: what revolution, whose revolution?

William Gomes 26 February 2013

The protests in Shahbagh errupted apparently spontaneously in response to the first verdict handed down by Bangladesh's domestic tribunal for war crimes committed during the war of independence in 1971. The primary demand? The death sentence.