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Bangladesh: UPDATE: Sigma Huda's health suffering during detainment
UN special rapporteur on people-trafficking, Sigma Huda, was arrested on 5 July in connection with a case of alleged extortion. She reportedly has potentially life-threatening heart and kidney conditions, and is not getting adequate treatment in prison.
Bangladesh: UN Special Rapporteur on Human Trafficking still unable to leave the country
UN officials are urging the authorities in Bangladesh to clarify the fate of a UN human rights expert prevented from leaving the country since mid-May.
Bangladesh: Islamism and expediency
The way Bangladesh's secular parties and leaders conduct politics is fuelling Islamist extremism and destabilising democracy, reports Delwar Hussain.
WSF: 'Apostates', Ahmadis and advocates: Use and abuse of offences against religion in Bangladesh
WSF: The rise of the religious right in Bangladesh: Taslima Nasrin and the media
Bangladesh: Text of Salma Sobhan Memorial Lecture
"Agency, Inequality and Human Rights" by Amartya Sen.
Bangladesh: Salma Sobhan Memorial Lecture
The Salma Sobhan Memorial Lecture was delivered at the National Museum's auditorium as part of the 20th founding anniversary celebration of Ain O Salish Kendra, a legal rights organisation. Salma Sobhan was one of the nine founders of the Kendra.
Bangladesh: The road to a Sharia state? Cultural radicalization in Bangladesh
Located in a hidden corner of South Asia, poised to become either a thriving democracy or a failed state, Bangladesh has the potential of becoming a major front in the global confrontation with radical Islamism.
Bangladesh: Secularism and this 'moderate Muslim' state
Law Minister Moudud Ahmed surprised us the other day when he informed the country that the people of Bangladesh had never accepted secularism as a principle of state. And then he surprised us even more.
Bangladesh: Tax for polygamy
The City Corporation Mayor of Rajshahi, Mijanur Rahman Minu, MP said that he will impose taxes on polygamists to deter the “outdated” practice of marrying more than one wife.
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