Negotiations between Afghanistan and Pakistan to secure a lasting truce after their bloodiest clashes in years were deadlocked Tuesday, with a Pakistani security source saying a 鈥榣ast-ditch effort鈥� was underway...
Peru鈥檚 interim president Jose Jeri announced a state of emergency in Lima and the neighboring port of Callao on Tuesday, after weeks of anti-government protests over corruption and organised crime...
THE recent suicide of Swarnamoyee Biswas, a female journalist at the online media outlet Dhaka Stream, after accusing her section chief Altaf Shahnewaz of sexual harassment, has sparked a storm of outrage. Swarnamoyee worked there as a graphics designer. Her complaint against Altaf Shahnewaz, alleging sexual harassment and workplace bullying, was not...
A STORM of violence against women is sweeping, quietly engulfing lives and breaking families. Every day, women face threats not only on the roads but also within their houses, the very places that should offer them safety. From brutal assaults and domestic abuse to cyber harassment and emotional torture, the patterns of violence are deepening, yet society remains...
About three quarters or 76 per cent of the ever-married women have experienced some form of violence by their husbands in their lifetime, according to the Violence Against Women Survey 2024 released on Monday.
THIRTEEN years after the mob attacks on Buddhist temples and houses at Ramu in Cox鈥檚 Bazar, Bangladesh continues to witness mob violence and sectarian attacks that follow the same grim pattern. The assault at Guimara in Khagrachari, which left at least three young ethnic minority people dead, has been aptly described by rights activists as a continuation of the violence...
Rights activists on Monday said that the ongoing mob violence carried a legacy of the continued impunity and injustice.
Home adviser Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury on Monday said that a certain quarter, instigated by India or fascist forces, was trying to create an unstable situation in Khagrachhari.
THE violence leading to deaths, injuries and destruction of houses and businesses of national minority communities in Khagrachari is a consequence of ethnically biased state policies towards the national minorities of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, an issue that successive governments left unattended. On September 28, at least three Marma youths were killed and several...
DOWRY persists as one of the most regressive social customs, continuing to inflict systemic violence, humiliation and financial burdens on women and their families. Dowry, commonly understood as property, goods or money transferred to the groom or his family at marriage, is not to be confused with bride price, which is a payment made to the bride鈥檚 parents, nor...
Leaders of Left Democratic Alliance on Monday at a protest rally in Dhaka city condemned the interim government saying that it had failed to control mob culture in their more than one year rule...
Government and non-government representatives have called for a united social effort to prevent violence and exploitation against children, stressing that the country鈥檚 future depends on their safety and wellbeing, says a press release.
Nepal鈥檚 army took back control of Kathmandu on Wednesday after the worst violence in two decades ousted the prime minister and left the parliament ablaze, enforcing a curfew and starting talks with protest leaders...
A South Korean court acquitted on Wednesday a woman convicted six decades ago for defending herself against sexual violence, after she challenged the ruling inspired by the country鈥檚 #MeToo movement...
The UN rights chief voiced alarm Tuesday at escalating violence in Nepal, where youth protesters set fire to parliament after a brutal police crackdown that left at least 19 dead.
A GROUP of people said to be connected to diverse Islamist parties and groups on September 5 attacked a shrine, known as Nura Paglar Darbar, at Goalanda in Rajbari. The attackers vandalised the shrine, exhumed the body of Nura Pagla, whose given name is Nurul Haque Molla, who died on August 23 and was buried in a grave on raised ground, and burnt it. The clash...
A Syria monitor said Friday that the death toll from sectarian violence in Sweida province in July has climbed to nearly 2,000, after dozens more bodies were identified.
THIS is worrying that incidents of sexual violence and rape are increasing. The Bangladesh Women鈥檚 Council reported a rise in gender-based violence in 2024, with the majority of the victims being girl children. There is an alarming surge in child marriage too. In 2024, about 20 cases of child marriage were reported whereas in the first six months of this year, the number is...
A son of Norway鈥檚 crown princess has been charged with 32 offences including four rapes and several acts of violence and assault, a prosecutor said on Monday...
Hundreds demonstrated in Syria鈥檚 Sweida on Saturday, denouncing last month鈥檚 sectarian violence and calling for the right to self-determination for the Druze-majority province, an AFP correspondent reported...
The incidents of deaths in mob violence are on the rise in the country. Legal experts and human rights activists described the situation as a disturbing trend and blamed the interim government for its failure to prevent mob violence.
I MOSTLY head home from the office and back to the office from home, which has been a routine for long but for a few erratic days when I have ventured out in other directions, mostly before and after work hours. But it gradually became challenging, risky too, to shuttle between the office and home, let alone darting out here and there even when the need was pressing as violence broke out with student protests...
A Rangpur court on Monday placed Habibur Rahman Selim, who was arrested for his alleged involvement in inciting violence during an attack on the homes of the minority community in Gangachara upazila of Rangpur, on a three-day remand...
A report on Thursday revealed that 235 women and girls faced violence in July.
EVERY morning, she tied her hair into a perfect bun, pinned on a brooch and stepped out with a smile. In schools and courtrooms, she spoke for the voiceless 鈥� teaching rights, opposing injustice and encouraging young women. But at home, her voice remained quieter. She is just one among countless women silently enduring life in patriarchal households...
Speakers at a discussion in Dhaka on Wednesday said that nonviolence was more effective than violence, citing the moral high ground gained when protesters absorb state aggression without retaliation.聽..
A surge of violence in southern Syria has exacerbated fears among minority communities and exposed what analysts say is the Damascus authorities鈥� intent to rein in the Druze population...
An individual, claiming himself to be the chief of 鈥楤angabandhu Guerrilla Bahini鈥�, has recently threatened the Kotalipara police station officer-in-charge, warning him of dire consequences regarding law enforcers鈥� action in Gopalganj following the July 16 violence over the National Citizen Party rally there...
THE Police Reform Commission once proposed a five-tier model for the use of force in crowd control. The first two stages emphasised non-contact measures 鈥� verbal communication, negotiation, and the use of barricades to maintain distance and prevent escalation. The third stage cautiously introduced physical force through non-lethal means: batons, gas sprays...
Calm returned to southern Syria鈥檚 Sweida province on Sunday, a monitor and AFP correspondents reported, after a week of sectarian violence between Druze fighters and rival groups that killed more than 1,000 people...
