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Published in: openIndiaIs slavery invincible?The right not to be enslaved is one of the two absolute human rights that cannot be violated on any ground...
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Published in: openGlobalRights-openpageR2P - perspectives from India
Using the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) to justify decisions to intervene militarily abroad is often self-serving....
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Published in: HomeCrisis of modernity and secularism: the cases of Egypt, Turkey and Bangladesh
Whenever democratic space has opened up, people have been eager to choose those who not only provide a better...
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Published in: openSecurityViolence and displacement in suburban DhakaA combination of violent rural and urban displacement have produced rings of poverty and exploitation on the...
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Published in: HomeInvesting in food security? On philanthrocapitalism, biotechnology and developmentAfricapitalism and philanthrocapitalism represent a progressive convergence of business principles with social...
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Published in: openSecurityProfessor Ghulam Azam: a flawed conviction and miscarriage of justice
On the basis of a flawed trial bereft of substantial evidence, my father has now been sentenced to 90 years in...
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Published in: openSecurityIs Bangladesh spiralling out of control?
The massacre of Hefazat protesters in Dhaka by Bangladeshi security forces, followed by the government’s initial...
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Published in: HomeBangladesh, in the ruins of the futureBangladesh's modern experience of industrial disaster highlights the fragile conditions in which many of its urban...
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Published in: HomeGovernment corruption leads to industrial accidents, not global brands
Corrupt political systems create conditions for industrial tragedies, not the presence of global brands.
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Published in: openSecurityThe well of the past: the power of religion in Bangladesh
While secularism can be seen as a point of departure for Bangladeshi nationalism from the 1950s onward, the...
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Published in: openSecurityReason and responsibility: the Rana Plaza collapse
The Rana Plaza tragedy was an outcome of a corrupt system that is rotten to the core. Who should - and can - be held...
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Published in: 50.50Backlash against Bangladeshi bloggers
The bloggers of Shahbagh are facing a backlash – hunted by fundamentalists, denounced in mosques as atheists,...
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Published in: openSecurityReligion and after: Bangladeshi identity since 1971
Secularism was one of the cornerstones of Bengali nationalism, but its spirit was enforced only by pen and paper....
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Published in: openSecurityBangladesh justice: damned if you do, damned if you don't
"One must ask what is the point in a trial where the only acceptable result is execution": have politics...
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Published in: openSecurityFree speech and Bangladesh's growing climate of fear
The latest conviction and death sentence handed down by the ICT has already sparked further protests. As the...
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Published in: openSecurityShahbagh: what revolution, whose revolution?
The protests in Shahbagh errupted apparently spontaneously in response to the first verdict handed down by...
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Published in: openSecurityThe Bangla Language Movement and Ghulam Azam
As the world celebrates International Mother Language Day in memory of the Bangla Language Movement, Bangladeshis at...
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Published in: openSecurityTowards partisan politics: #Shahbag and the politics of revenge
Protests at Shahbag that call for the death penalty for Abdul Quader Mollah have been hailed as a move beyond...
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Published in: 50.50The youth of Shahbagh: A Bengali spring?Dhaka has been witnessing a youth uprising against Islamism in Bangladesh. The UK is also witnessing daily events in...
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Published in: openSecurityLaws of passion: the Shahbag protests
The second verdict handed down by Bangladesh's war crimes tribunal is life imprisonment. Now a death sentence is...
