Fahad Ferdous, UNB Staff Writer Dhaka, Aug 30 – The government has taken a move to designate at least one school exclusively for children with disability in each Upazila, aiming to bring them in the mainstream of society and involve…
Category: Society
Torture on domestic help: Exemplary punishment urged
People from all walks of life on Sunday formed a human chain in front of the district court premises in the town demanding exemplary punishment of the house masters who tortured their 10-year maid in the capital.
Fight for the right to abortion spreads to Latin America
By Fabiana Frayssinet Buenos Aires, Aug 23 2018 (IPS) – The Argentine Senate’s rejection of a bill to legalise abortion did not stop a Latin American movement, which is on the streets and is expanding in an increasingly coordinated manner…
Malaysia: Two women face caning for same-sexconduct
Criminalizing LGBT Relations Fosters Intolerance, Discrimination Bangkok – Malaysian authorities should drop the case against two women for same-sex relations before their scheduled caning on August 28, 2018, Human Rights Watch said today. A court convicted the two on August…
‘Alert against fake accounts of Bangabandhu family members’
Dhaka, Aug 18 – Mentioning that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, her daughter Saima Hossain Wazed and sister Sheikh Rehana have no personal or official account or page in social media sites, especially Facebook and Twitter, Awami League has urged all…
Tobacco consumption in BD falls by 8 percent
Tobacco users have declined by eight per cent in Bangladesh in the last eight years, a Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) 2017 showed indicating that anti-tobacco measures yielded the benefits.
New unit to analyse social media content: Tarana Halim
A new unit will be set up in the Ministry of Information to analyse and inform about social media contents so that Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) can go for measures against offensive contents.
UN concerned at Chinese detention of Uighur Muslims
A U.N. anti-discrimination committee raised concerns on Friday over China’s treatment of the Uighur Muslim minority, citing reports of mass detentions as it considered Beijing’s record over recent years.
‘Sexual violence applied to force ethnic minorities migrate’
Dhaka, Aug 11 – Sexual violence against ethnic minority women is used as one of the main tools to force the people living in hills to migrate elsewhere leaving their ancestral lands, say experts and human right activists.
50 Sundarbans tigers beaten to death in 18 years
Dhaka – Fifty tigers were beaten to death in the areas adjacent to the Sundarbans in the last 18 years while over 332 people killed by the big cats during the same period as they entered localities in search of…
‘Enable people to assess validity of info thru their free flow’
Dhaka, Aug 10 – As social media can be used for spreading propaganda or rumours, media and IT experts think there is a need to make people, especially the youngsters, aware of mature digital lifestyle and increase their media literacy.
‘Repression on BD indigenous people must stop’
Dhaka, Aug 10 – Speakers, on the occasion of the International Day of the World’s Indigenous People, at a programme here on Thursday, said incidents of repression of indigenous people must be stopped.
World Day for Indigenous Peoples
By IPS World Desk Rome, Aug 7 2018 (IPS) – 370 million self-identified indigenous peoples are spread across the world, but continue to face discrimination and marginalization.
Facebook opens up on vote meddling, but is the shift real?
For a company bent on making the world more open, Facebook has long been secretive about the details of how it runs its social network — particularly how things go wrong and what it does about them.
Councilor hopefuls vow to establish child marriage-free society
Five councilor candidates, including one for women reserved seat, in the Ward No-12 of the upcoming election of Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) scheduled to be held on July 30, promised to establish child marriage-free society if they were elected.
Mandela’s most important lesson – belief in youth: Obama
One hundred years ago, Nelson Mandela was born in the South African village of Mvezo. On Wednesday, I had the honour of celebrating his remarkable life by sharing a few lessons I’ve taken from him with the people of South…
Remember to call grandparents: Multigenerational mobility
Submitted by Daniel Mahler A large body of literature has shown that the outcomes of children are tied to the outcomes of their parents or, in other words, that children face different life prospects based on their family background. But…
Minorities remain safe when AL stays in power: Nasim
Awami League Presidium Member and Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammed Nasim today said minority community people remain safe whenever Awami League stays in power.
Govt to make children of war criminals second class citizens
Dhaka, July 14 – The present government is determined to award second-class citizenship to children of war criminals, said Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque. Speaking at a rally of freedom fighters at Mohanagar Natya Mancha in the city,…
Europe’s Football World Cup celebrates diversity
This weekend I sat in my local bar in Brooklyn, New York and, alongside an enthusiastic and racially diverse group of English fans, watched England defeat Sweden to advance to the World Cup semi-finals.
BWP Emergency General Meeting nods NGO Bureau registration
Dhaka, July 7 – An emergency General meeting of the Bangladesh Water Partnership on Saturday endorsed a decision of the BWP executive committee to have registration from the NGO Affairs Bureau of the government.
Resurgent infectious diseases have serious economic effects
Infectious diseases and associated mortality have abated, but they remain a significant threat throughout the world.
‘Social business can be best tool for doing CSR’
Speakers at a Social Business Day 2018 forum on Friday said social business can be the best tool for companies to implement their corporate social responsibility (CSR) and ensure equity in society using the potential of individuals.
Pelé beyond football
By Kul Chandra Gautam Kathmandu, Nepal, Jun 27, 2018 (IPS) – Pele’s example has inspired millions of young people to join the ‘beautiful game’ and contribute to building a peaceful and prosperous world fit for all our children.
Nigeria: ‘Deeply unfortunate killings’ as 86 reported dead
Lagos, Jun 25 (AP/UNB) — Nigeria’s presidency late Sunday announced a “deeply unfortunate killings across a number of communities” in central Plateau State as one report cited police as saying 86 people were dead in clashes between mostly Muslim herders…
Despite the Eid vacation kitchen markets are normal
Dhaka, June 22 – After a passage of Eid-ul-Fitr, one of the biggest religious festivals of the Muslims, the capitals’ kitchen market have remained normal. Whatever was available yesterday in kitchen market, despite shortage supplies prices remain unchanged as it was…
Addressing Asia’s ageing societies
While populations have seen and undergone changes since the beginning of time, one trend in particular is unfolding across the world: less children, older people. In an effort to tackle the complex issue in Asia, government officials are convening to…
Art show on Rohingyas begins in Dhaka
Dhaka, Jun 21 – A weeklong art exhibition on Rohingya refugees kicked off at Liberation War Museum on Wednesday with lighting the candles.
Lottery for disabled people’s organization, BPKS, launched
Dhaka, June 20 – The Minister for food Quamrul Islam on Wednesday opened a lottery of the Bangladesh Protibandhi Kallyan Somity (BPKS) to raise fund for this national voluntary organization dedicated to the welfare of people with all forms of…
Guatemalan man recalls fear, agony of separation from child
Provo, Jun 21 (AP/UNB) — Three-year-old Genesis Gonzalez Lopez giggled excitedly as she played with her father at a sunny Utah park, zipping down a slide again and again into his arms.