A law stipulating working conditions for domestic workers, including a regular weekly day off, 30 days of paid annual leave and the right to retain personal documents, was approved by UAE President His Highness Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan,…
Category: Int’l relations
Making right to development a reality for everyone
Geneva(Kanaga Raja) – More than 30 years after the adoption of the Declaration on the Right to Development, business-as-usual will not be sufficient to achieve progress, a United Nations human rights expert has said.
Egypt’s militants claim attack targeting Myanmar embassy
Egyptian militant group Hasm claimed responsibility on Sunday for a small explosion at Myanmar’s embassy in Cairo, saying it was in retaliation for that country’s military crackdown on Rohingya Muslims.
Iran nuclear deal could win the Nobel Peace Prize
By Mikael Holter The main facilitators of the 2015 accord on Iran’s nuclear program, slammed as the worst deal ever by U.S. President Donald Trump, could be among the top contenders for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, according to researchers…
Myanmar Minister due Sunday night to discuss Rohingya issue
Dhaka, Oct 1 – Amid the growing pressure on Myanmar, State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi is now sending her representative to discuss the Rohingya issue with the Bangladesh government.
Tillerson says US has direct channels to talk to N Korea
Beijing, Oct 01 (AP/UNB) — U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson acknowledged on Saturday that the United States is maintaining direct channels of communications with North Korea even as tensions rise over the North’s nuclear and missile programs and the…
Govt now diplomatic ‘orphan’, alleges BNP
Dhaka, Sept 30 – BNP senior leader Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain on Saturday said the government has turned ‘orphan’ diplomatically with no support from close foreign friends over Rohingya issue.
Plastic sheets to cover Rohingyas in open-air camps
Dhaka, Sept 30 – The United Nations refugee agency has announced that it has started distributing plastic sheeting and essential relief items to Rohingyas arriving in Bangladesh from Myanmar as part of a massive effort to cut the time refugees…
Myanmar: Global appeal for UN action – HRW
Stop Crimes Against Humanity The United Nations General Assembly and Security Council should take immediate steps to address the human rights abuses and humanitarian catastrophe engulfing Myanmar’s ethnic Rohingya population, Human Rights Watch and 87 other nongovernmental organizations said today.
Burma is playing politics with the dead
Alleged Atrocities Need International Inquiry Meenakshi Ganguly, South Asia Director, HRW Burma’s military announced this week that it had dug up 28 bodies in a mass grave in northern Rakhine State. The following day, they claimed to have found another 17…
Merkel’s defeat confirms dismal trend for Europe
By Roberto Savio Rome, Sep 29 (IPS) – Generally, media have failed to analyse why the result of German elections is the worst possible. Merkel is not a winner, but a leader now in a very fragile position, who will…
Worsening Rohingya crisis BD’s diplomatic failure: BNP
Dhaka – The opposition BNP on Friday alleged that the present government has been failed to bring neighbouring leading nations and the United Nations together in resolving the Rohingya crisis.
Are Myanmar people human-beings?
The world people perhaps had never witnessed such brutality and barbarism the Myanmar army men and Buddha citizens are doing against the innocent helpless Rohingya Muslims. According to international and social media reports, it is now crystal clear that Myanmar…
UN to launch inter-agency appeal to fund Rohingyas
Fate of other 68 Rohingyas on boat remains unknown, says IOM Dhaka, Sept 29 – The UN will launch an updated inter-agency appeal in the coming week as lack of funding to address the needs of Rohingyas in Bangladesh remains…
IS reclusive leader rallies followers in purported new audio
Cairo, Sep 29 (AP/UNB) — The leader of the Islamic State group urged followers to burn their enemies everywhere and target “media centres of the infidels,” according to an audio recording that the extremists said was by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Hugh Hefner bought crypt next to Marilyn Monroe
In life, Playboy founder Hugh Hefner cavorted with a harem of young women in the infamous Playboy Mansion – a byword for hedonism and sexual excess.
‘Mona Lisa nude sketch’ found in France
A charcoal drawing housed in another art collection for more than 150 years may have been a sketch for the Mona Lisa, a French art expert says. The charcoal portrait of a nude woman, known as the Monna Vanna, was…
Burma must stop operation, take back refugees: UN chief
UN, Sep 29 (AP/UNB) — Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged Myanmar’s authorities on Thursday to immediately end military operations that have sent over 500,000 Rohingya Muslims fleeing to Bangladesh, calling the crisis “the world’s fastest developing refugee emergency and a humanitarian…
End violence – execute Annan report : UK asks Burma
Dhaka, Sept 28 – Assuring that it will always be there with Bangladesh over Rohingya issue, the United Kingdom on Thursday proposed three ‘options’, including the full implementation of the recommendations of the Kofi Anan Commission to resolve the crisis.
Dhaka asks UN for Rohingyas’ sustainable return
It’s ready to engage with Myanmar, int’l community to resolve crisis Dhaka, Sept 29 – Bangladesh has called for measures to ensure the safe, voluntary and sustainable return of all those displaced from Myanmar into Bangladesh territory over the years,…
‘Extremism could arise in BD for absemce of democracy’
New York – South Asia specialists in the United States worried about democracy in Bangladesh. Concerns about democracy in Bangladesh, experts from the concerned South Asian think-tank They said that extremism could arise in the absence of democracy. Besides, the…
Air Force- Air Defence Exercise held
Dhaka, Sep 28- Air Defence Exercise named “MINIEX 2017-2” of Bangladesh Air Force was held at all BAF Bases in Bangladesh on Wednesday.
Rohingyas have ‘absolutely nothing’: UN refugee chief
A perilous journey for Rohingya refugees (CNN)Rohingya refugees who have fled violence in Myanmar for shelter in neighbouring Bangladesh are in desperate need of help, UN refugee chief Filippo Grandi said Wednesday, as he called on the Myanmar authorities to…
Bali volcano exodus nears 100000 amid tremors
Bali, Sep 28 (AP/UNB) — The exodus from a menacing volcano on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali is nearing 100,000 people, a disaster official said Wednesday, as hundreds of tremors from the mountain are recorded daily. The National Disaster…
Attack on Rohingyas in Sri Lanka alarms UN refugee body
Colombo, Sep 28 (AP/UNB) — The U.N. refugee agency said Wednesday it was alarmed by a mob attack on Rohingya Muslim refugees in Sri Lanka, where government leaders called for stern legal action against perpetrators that included Buddhist monks.
Convince Russia, China to resolve Rohingya crisis: BNP
Cox’s Bazar, Sept 27 – BNP on Wednesday urged the government to intensify its diplomatic efforts to convince Russia and China not to exercise their veto power against the United Nations Security Council’s any move to resolve the Rohingya crisis.
B Chy and Dr Kamal for bringing Burmese arsonists to justice
Dhaka – Prof Dr Badruddoza Chowdhury and Dr Kamal Hossain, the two veteran politicians, have called for taking immediate measure to create world opinion and hold a meeting with Myanmar to send back the Rohingya refugees immediately.
Dhaka signs nuclear nonproliferation treaty
Bangladesh signed nuclear disarmament treaty outlawing nuclear weapons, according to a statement issued today in New York. The United Nations on July 7, 2017 adopted the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which, Bangladesh signed last week from first…
Dhaka seeks steps thru UN to send back the Rohingya
Bangladesh expects concrete steps through the UN Security Council so that the ‘forcibly displaced people from Myanmar’ in Bangladesh can go back to their homeland smoothly and without any fear. “…we expect such steps through which they (Rohingyas) will return…
Saudi Arabia to lift driving ban on women
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has issued a decree allowing women to drive for the first time, to the joy of activists. The Gulf kingdom is the only country in the world that bans women from driving. Until now, only men…