Posts Tagged ‘Bangladesh’
Friday, January 1st, 2010
1/1/10
Myanmar has agreed to take back some 9,000 Muslim Rohingya refugees currently living in camps in Bangladesh, the Bangladeshi foreign minister says. Mohamed Mijarul Quayes said after meeting his Myanmar counterpart that the two sides had agreed to begin returning the Rohingya to Myanmar as soon as possible. Human-rights groups have said the Rohingya face religious persecution and abuses from Myanmar’s military government which does not recognise the group as an ethnic minority. Many have complained they face beatings and arbitrary arrests, as well as restrictions on movement, education and employment. Thousands of Rohingya began fleeing Myanmar in the late 1970s and Bangladesh says there are currently about 28,000 living in camps in the southeast of the country
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Tags: Bangladesh, Burma, Human Rights, Migrants & Refugees
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Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
Nicolas Haque; 4/11/09
The construction of a barbed wire fence along Myanmar’s border with Bangladesh has only increased the suffering of the Muslim Rohingya minority. Hundreds of thousands have fled to Bangladesh, with most of them living in makeshift camps, unrecognised, and unwanted.
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Tags: Bangladesh, Burma, Human Rights
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Monday, July 13th, 2009
Nicolas Haque; 13/7/09
Rahima Begum, a young woman in the village of Kaligonj in the northwest of Bangladesh, turned down the romantic advances of a neighbour and paid dearly for it.In the dead of night, while she was asleep, her neighbour poured acid over her face, leaving her disfigured for life. “I may be still alive but he took my life away, I have become the shame of my family and of my village. I have no where to go,” she says. According to official figures, there are only around 200 acid-related crimes reported every year in Bangladesh. However, thousands of acid-attack victims find refuge at the Acid Survivor Foundation (ASF) in Dhaka, the capital, in any given year. Like Rahima, most victims are women who have spurned advances from men.
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Tags: Bangladesh, Womens Rights
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Saturday, February 28th, 2009
Daniel Flitton; 28/2/09; (4 Items)
“OLA,” the man cried in a surprised greeting. The bargain shops crowded along Footscray Mall are hardly a usual hang-out to find a high-flying ex-prime minister. Especially one from Portugal. But Henrique Sa — who has lived in Australia for 19 years — noticed the former leader of his homeland and knew him from pictures on television, so rushed across to shake his hand.
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Tags: Australia, Bangladesh, Burma, Malaysia, Migrants & Refugees, Thailand, UN, USA
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Saturday, December 20th, 2008
20/12/08
A London court has ruled in favour of a Bangladeshi doctor held captive in Dhaka by her parents seeking an enforced marriage, saying she could not be removed from Britain without her consent. Humayra Abedin, 32, returned to Britain this week after a Bangladeshi court ruled on Sunday that her parents were holding her against her will and she should be freed. The High Court in London issued an order on Friday while she was in captivity on December 5 under newly-introduced legislation which lets British courts prevent forced marriages for residents of Britain. “I shall grant further orders to protect Dr Abedin and prevent her being removed from this country again without her consent,” said judge Paul Coleridge
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Tags: Bangladesh, Marriage, Womens Rights
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Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
15/12/08
A doctor who was allegedly held captive by her family in Bangladesh is due to return to Britain after being freed.Lawyers for Humayra Abedin, from east London, had said the trainee family doctor’s family had planned to force her into a marriage. Anne-Marie Hutchinson, Abedin’s lawyer, said on Monday the 33-year-old had boarded a flight from Dhaka the previous night. “She’s fine, but obviously exhausted and was anxious to leave before people changed their mind,” Hutchinson said. Abedin had moved to Britain six years ago to study and was due to start work at a surgery in east London before she returned to Bangladesh after hearing her mother had fallen ill.
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Tags: Bangladesh, Womens Rights
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Saturday, October 18th, 2008
Tariq Al-Maeena; 18/10/08
In our prayers for the poor and oppressed of this world, including those in Palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan, we can be somewhat forgiven for ignoring the plight of more than a quarter million ghetto dwellers in squalid camps in Bangladesh. These are the Biharis, forgotten remnants of the 1971 Indo-Pak war leading to the birth of Bangladesh, and there are very few voices that bring their miserable conditions to the fore. While the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights states every person has a right to nationality, these “stranded Pakistanis” enjoy no such luxury. For the past 37 years, they have been languishing in 66 squalid camps spread across Bangladesh, each no bigger than a football field, with poor sanitation and shortage of running water.
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Tags: Bangladesh, Pakistan, Refugees, UN
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Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
2/10/08
Authorities in Singapore have raided the premises of an engineering company following an Al Jazeera report on allegations that migrant workers were being kept there under duress. Singapore’s manpower ministry said it raided the offices of San’s Marine on Friday and have since launched an investigation. Last month Al Jazeera correspondent Tony Birtley visited the company’s warehouses and found about 30 migrant workers being held there in what the workers called “the cage”. Our correspondent was investigating how workers from Bangladesh were being ripped off in highly-organised false job scams, paying exorbitant fees to agents in exchange for broken promises of high paying jobs.
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Tags: Bangladesh, Signapore, Workers
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