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Bangladesh Learned Again– Students Efforts Spared Us from Shame

by Mohammad Nazrul Islam Our children, our youth have once again proved that this G-generation can change Bangladesh, can change the country. They moved and worked hard to give proper guidance to the country, and above all, to change the…

Welcome to Hell: The Israeli Prison System as a Network of Torture Camps

Since the horrific Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023, we have been hearing every day of more and more crimes and atrocities that would have been unthinkable in the not-too-distant past. Tens of thousands of civilians killed,…

Students Power: Democracy Rebuild in Bangladesh

by Mohammad Nazrul Islam Student power means setting a goal and having the communication network, the strategy, the physical numbers, and the commitment to achieve it. Now it happened again in Bangladesh’s history. On August 5, 2024, the students have demonstrated…

Central Shaheed Minar Reverberated with the Chanting of Slogans to Protest Killings and Mass Arrests

by Mohammad Nazrul Islam The area reverberated with the chanting of slogans before any speeches were made. When someone came on the megaphone to shout a slogan, the rest of the crowd harmonized. Saturday, hundreds of thousands of students, parents,…

When financial values make no sense, expressing nothing, the absurd.

The financialization of the economy in the age of AI Here’s a staggering piece of news that appeared yesterday on the website of Kotaku, a news/com company specialising in the games sector: ” Nvidia has just grown by $329 billion…

Pressure Builds on UN to Uphold Court Rulings on Gaza

Almost 200,000 emails have been sent to the UN missions of a couple of dozen nations reading “I urge your country to move to convene an emergency session of the UN General Assembly and use Uniting For Peace (Resolution 377) to impose…

3rd General Body elections of Baloch National movement Netherlands chapter.

The Baloch National Movement’s Netherlands chapter held its third general body elections named in honor of Shaheed Fida Ahmed, in Amsterdam, the capital city of the Netherlands. The elections were attended by the chairman of the Baloch National Movement, Dr…

Quezon Sangguniang Panlalawigan Rejects Kaliwa Dam Project: A Stand for Environmental Conservation and Indigenous Rights

Philippine Misereor Partnership, Inc. fully supports the recent resolution (Provincial Resolution No. 2024-164) by the Quezon Province Sangguniang Panlalawigan, rejecting the controversial Kaliwa Dam project. The Kaliwa Dam project has been fraught with issues from its inception, primarily due to…

Severe food and medicine shortages affect people in North Darfur, Sudan due to protracted conflict

People in Sudan’s North Darfur state are facing severe shortages of food and medical supplies, following heavy fighting that erupted in May between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces in El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur…

PRESS RELEASE: UN Recommends the Abolition of the Prosecution Sanction Regime

                        Extrajudicial Execution Victim Families Association, Manipur (EEVFAM) and Human Rights Alert (HRA) heartily welcome the recommendation of the UN Human Rights Committee (Committee) to the Government of India…

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