India’s support for Hasina regime strangled Bangladesh’s democratic aspirations but it’s not too late to repent and rebuild trust In the annals of South Asia’s political history, India’s role in sustaining Sheikh Hasina’s regime in Bangladesh stands (...)
India losing regional influence to China, just as its global role grows. Regime change has come to South Asia for the second time in a few weeks with the election yesterday in Sri Lanka of a Marxist president, whose party has not held the (...)
Bangladesh has experienced a dramatic uprising that led to the ousting of prime minister Sheikh Hasina after intense protests against government job quotas, resulting in over 450 deaths amid a brutal crackdown on demonstrators. An interim (...)
La répression des manifestations étudiantes au Bangladesh a fait près de 200 morts. Les manifestations ont commencé par l’attribution de postes gouvernementaux, mais elles se sont transformées en un défi plus large à l’égard d’un parti au pouvoir qui (...)
Years after years pass by. A new year arrives, but does it bring any changes to the distress and vulnerability of the world’s most persecuted refugees around the world ? After the last Rohingya refugee influx into Bangladesh on August 25, 2017, (...)
he Bay of Bengal’s basin contains some of the most populous regions of the earth. No less than a quarter of the world’s population is concentrated in the eight countries that border the bay. Approximately 200 million people live along the Bay of (...)
Il y a eu les 1135 morts et les milliers de blessés de l’effondrement du Rana Plaza, au Bangladesh. Puis les engagements des multinationales de l’habillement, leurs codes de conduite et leurs chartes éthiques. Enfin, des centaines d’inspections (...)
Ethnic strife, communal violence, drive refuges from Bangladesh, Pakistan While Europe faces a massive human refugee flow from civil strife and wars in Syria, Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan, India’s northeastern region, particularly the state of (...)
Au Bangladesh, la dégradation de l’environnement joue un rôle croissant dans la migration - forcée ou influencée, permanente ou partielle -, comme stratégie d’adaptation. Les facteurs naturels et climatiques, en détériorant les conditions de vie et en (...)
Political tensions and confusion are mounting in Bangladesh over the next general election, which must be held by Jan. 24, 2014, with growing calls for general strikes and rallies as protest blooms. Under Bangladesh’s parliamentary system, the (...)