Year 2015 was the darkest of times in Bangladesh’s history. Like 1975 murder of the founding president Sheikh Mujib, which wiped off all the secular achievements of the 1971 Independence war against Pakistan, 2015 will be remembered by the world as the year of Atheist bloggers, authors, publishers killing.
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Bangladesh 2015: A Year of Bloggers, Writer, Publishers murder in the hands of Islamism and its beneficiaries | Arif Rahman
8 January 2016 -
Video of Dhaka Book Launch: The Spectral Wound - Sexual Violence, Public Memories and the Bangladesh War of 1971 | Nayanika Mookherjee
7 January 2016 -
Jan 7, 2017 CNDP Statement on Nuclear test by North Korea
by , 7 January 2016The Coalition of Nuclear Disarmament and Peace (CNDP) strongly condemns the nuclear weapons test by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). The North Korean regime, which is highly authoritarian and militarist, has tried to consolidate itself internally through such aggressive moves.
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Letter to The President by The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka Recommends Abolition of Death Penalty
5 January 2016The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) has urged President Maithripala Sirisena to abolish the death penalty in Sri Lanka in keeping with Sri Lanka’s commitment to a more humane society consonant with human rights principles and values.
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India: Democracy Undermined in Arunachal Pradesh | Garga Chatterjee
5 January 2016Not all is right in the state of Arunachal Pradesh in the Indian Union. Some old British-rule era habits die hard, or may be they never die for some imperial habits are essential for maintaining undemocratic dominance over democratically-elected undesirables.
