List of Bangladesh articles
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Bangladesh Awami League supporters protest with anti-Pakistan placards in Dhaka on December 23, 2013. The activists demonstrated against Pakistan's reaction over the execution of Abdul Quader Molla, a top Islamist leader convicted of war crimes. AFP PHOTO/Munir uz ZAMAN (Photo credit should read MUNIR UZ ZAMAN/AFP/Getty Images) Escaping the Shadow of Pakistan
The current diplomatic row between Bangladesh and Pakistan is about more than opening old wounds from 45 years ago – it is about the threat to pluralistic democracy in South Asia posed by Pakistan’s security policies.
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A Bangladeshi social activist pays his last respects to slain US blogger of Bangladeshi origin and founder of the Mukto-Mona (Free-mind) blog site, Avijit Roy in Dhaka on March 6, 2015 after he was hacked to death by unidentified assailants in the Bangladeshi capital on February 26. An FBI team has arrived in Dhaka to help investigate the American-Bangladeshi writers gruesome killing. AFP PHOTO / Munir uz ZAMAN (Photo credit should read MUNIR UZ ZAMAN/AFP/Getty Images) To Counter IS in Bangladesh, Look To The Bloggers
If the international community is concerned about the spread of IS in Bangladesh, it should pressure the government to provide a secure space for free media.
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Screen Shot 2015-12-17 at 2.39.46 PM Mapped: Bangladesh Still Has a Garment Factory Problem
A new report released by NYU found that 3 million garment workers in Bangladesh remain at risk.
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ALLAHABAD, INDIA - 2014/09/20: An Indian youth walks over dried mud on the banks of a river after waters from the seasonal monsoon rains receded in Allahabad. The southwest monsoon began receding from northern India and is unlikely to revive, Indian meteorological officials said, with this year's season regarded as deficient. (Photo by Prabhat Kumar Verma/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images) How Can Climate Change Trigger Conflict in South Asia?
Policymakers in South Asia need to act fast before the region’s inherent conflicts entwined with the ravages of climate change overtake them.
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Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) supporters set fire to tyres and material in the street during a clash with police outside a court in Dhaka on December 24, 2014, during a court appearance by party chief Khaleda Zia. Zia and three of her aides are accused of syphoning off 31.5 million taka (about USD400,000) from a charitable trust named after her late husband Ziaur Rahman, a former president who was assassinated in 1981. AFP PHOTO/STR (Photo credit should read STRDEL/AFP/Getty Images) Why the Extremist Threat in Bangladesh Needs to be taken Seriously
Political polarization between the ruling Awami League government and opposition Bangladesh National Party is creating space for the rise of Islamist extremism in Bangladesh.
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SITTWE, BURMA - MAY 25: Anis, 18 years, was held captured by human traffickers at sea for 32 days, May 25, 2015 in Sittwe, Burma. Since 2012, the minority group of the Rohingya people are forced to live in IDP camps, in Rakhaing State in western Burma. They have been denied citizenship in their homeland Burma and are accused of being illegal migrants from neighbouring Bangladesh. Thousands of Rohingays try to escape the misery in the IDP camps across the Andaman Sea on small fishing boats hoping to reach Malaysia. Many of those who embark on the perilous journey by sea fall into the hands of human traffickers who charge high prices in return for their freedom. (Photo by Jonas Gratzer/Getty Images) Acting East, Trafficking West
Greater connectivity could result in more human trafficking from Myanmar into India. Are the two countries ready to face the challenge?
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When Bangladesh’s politicians exploit extremist Islam, liberal bloggers pay with their lives.
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Pakistani journalists hold placards and photographs bearing the image of Geo television journalist Hamid Mir during a protest against the attack on Mir by gunmen in Islamabad on April 23, 2014. Pakistan's defence ministry has asked for the country's top-rating television channel to be shut down after it broadcast allegations blaming an intelligence agency for shooting a leading journalist, officials said. The move comes after Geo aired claims that Pakistan's powerful Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency was behind the shooting of prominent anchor Hamid Mir in Karachi on April 19, 2014. AFP PHOTO/Aamir QURESHI (Photo credit should read AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images) Publish At Your Peril
South Asia remains one of the most repressed regions for journalists and by governments muzzling the freedoms of the press, the region’s democratic gains are in jeopardy.
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rana Laundering the Global Garment Industry’s Dirty Business
Two years after Bangladesh's Rana Plaza disaster, experts say a dense network of little-known agents and subcontractors is still getting in the way of better work conditions.
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Unrest sweeps Dhaka after disputed elections, but Bangladesh's problems extend much farther from the ballot box. Also sparking the flames of turmoil are a stagnant economy, authoritarian rule, and weak governance
