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Demand for an ‘Independent Safe Food Commission’ Intensifies By Mohammed Kawser Ahamed (Dhaka Bureau) A silent killer is spreading across the plates of 160 million people in Bangladesh. From rice, pulses, and fish to infant formula, toxic chemicals have infiltrated every level of the food chain. Characterizing this horrific food contamination as a ‘Humanitarian Disaster,’…

by Asif Showkat Kallol (Dhaka Bureau) The chairman and the entire commission of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) resigned on 3 March. In accordance with the law, they submitted their resignations with a 30-day notice period and simultaneously went on 30 days’ leave. As a result, the ACC is currently operating without a commission, creating a…

By Mynul Hasan Sohel (Dhaka Bureau) Bangladesh’s Information and Broadcasting Minister Zahir Uddin Swapan has underscored the importance of developing an integrated master plan for industrialization in the country’s southern region, centered around the vast natural gas reserves in Bhola. ‘It is essential for skilled and visionary individuals to step forward and deliberate on how…

(Moscow Bureau) – In an increasingly struggle for Russia’s influence in Africa, including political, economic and humanitarian spheres, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov started the 2026 with a pack of invitations for African foreign ministers, strategically as part of preliminary preparations for the next Russia-Africa summit. Armed with Russia’s policy intentions in Africa (Strategic Action Plan…

“If you destroy my country. I will kill you,” and people died. I sat beside the jeepney driver. The signage was MRT Highway, Welcome Rotonda, and Quiapo-España. I placed my bag on my lap. Inside was my copy of Patricia Evangelista’s Some People Need Killing. I counted my coins and handed twenty pesos to the…

“Africa gave the world humanity. The world took almost everything else.” “Africa holds a substantial share of the resources that will sustain the twenty-first-century economy, yet it remains one of the least industrialized and least prosperous regions of the world. The paradox is not new. It is the continuation of a history shaped more by…

There is no possible ambiguity. What is happening in Lebanon is not the result of internal weakness or a spontaneous crisis. It is the direct consequence of sustained military pressure, progressive bombardments, and evacuation orders imposed by Israel on sovereign territory. This is an ongoing coercive action. Thousands of families have been forced to flee…

We live in times when human beings seem irrelevant, being as they are in the hands of a minority that renounces its own humanity while racing unchecked toward money and power—toward what it believes to be happiness—all the while violently attempting to halt the transformative path that humanity inevitably follows in its own pursuit of…

By Maxine Lowy Lessons from the Trials of Nazi Criminals for the Chilean Debate on Leniency for Convicted Human Rights Violators Teun de Groot was a bicycle mechanic from Voorschoten, a small town in the western region of the Netherlands. Early one morning in September 1944, the doorbell rang. When he opened the door, two…

Open letter warns that without resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, regional stability will remain impossible, and criticizes the silence of Israel’s political opposition as the war escalates Eighty Jewish and Arab organizations in Israel sent an open letter today (Monday) to U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, calling for an end to…