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US report on religious freedom in Bangladesh does not reflect ground scenario: State Minister Shahriar Alam AIR Pics The State Minister for Foreign Affairs of Bangladesh Shahriar Alam has said that the recently published report of the US government on religious freedom does not reflect the ground reality in the country. In a statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) of Bangladesh after a meeting between US ambassador to Bangladesh Earl R. Miller and the state Minister Shahriar Alam in Dhaka on Monday, the minister said that the government is making its best efforts to ensure communal harmony and religious non-discrimination in the country. He cited the Vested Property Return (Amendment) act 2011 and Chittagong Hill Tracts peace treaty of 1997 as examples of the steps the government has taken in this direction. He said the Bangladesh government has taken action on the incidents mentioned in the report of the US government.
BNP and Hifazat: partners on a mission
Members of Hifazat-e Islam carried out mayhem on the Dhaka-Chattogram Highway in Narayanganj’s Signboard area as they clashed with the law enforcers in different parts of Bangladesh during the radical group’s violent shutdown on Sunday, Mar 28, 2021. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove
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16th May 2021
In Bangladesh, the looming shadow of Pakistan ceases to die. Despite 50 years of liberated existence and a decade of phenomenal economic and human development, the ghost of Islamic radicalism refuses to go away.
The religious radicalism encouraged by Pakistani military junta to keep its stranglehold on its eastern wing before 1971 was defeated by resurgent militant Bengalee nationalism but it got a fresh lease of life after the 1975 coup and consolidated its grip with enormous patronage from military rulers, Ziaur Rahman and HM Ershad.
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Deforestation in West Papua, Indonesia, in 2014 (Flickr/EU FLEGT and REDD+ facilities)
The threats facing Indigenous people opposing industrial operations on their lands discrimination, harassment and assassination all disproportionately affect women. And the coronavirus pandemic has done little to reduce the danger, say Indigenous and faith leaders. Indigenous women human rights defenders are at the forefront of the resistance against the effects of extractive industries and, more generally, the model relying on the exploitation of natural resources, including through mining, logging, [agricultural] monocultures and dams, Sandra Epal-Ratjen, international advocacy director for Franciscans International, said at a virtual event April 26.
The webinar sponsored by Franciscans International, which brought together United Nations officials with Indigenous leaders from Brazil, Indonesia, Bangladesh and Guatemala, coincided with the 20th session of the U.N. Perma
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