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Dr Hameeda Hossain , one of the founders of Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK) and currently convener of the Sramik Nirapotta Forum (Workers Safety Forum), has recently been honoured with the 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award from Bangladesh Development Initiative, a non-partisan research and advocacy group of independent scholars based in the US. In this interview with Shuprova Tasneem The Daily Star , she reflects on her long and illustrious career and the evolution of the rights movements in Bangladesh.
What inspired you to follow this path, and what achievements are you most proud of in terms of the women s movement and the labour movement? ....
Dr Hameeda Hossain honoured with 2021 BDI Lifetime Achievement Award Dr Hameeda Hossain Star Digital Report Star Digital Report The Bangladesh Development Initiative (BDI), a non-partisan research and advocacy group of independent scholars based in the United States, has announced that Dr Hameeda Hossain is the recipient of the 2021 BDI Lifetime Achievement Award. Established in 2012, this award is designed to honor outstanding individuals or organizations who, through their scholarly and/or policy and civic engagements, have contributed significantly to understanding the challenges, and the ideals that have led to the development of Bangladesh and have improved the quality of life for its citizens. ....
Survivors of Rana Plaza Collapse: 57pc still unemployed No govt aid for 92pc during pandemic: survey Photo: Reuters Staff Correspondent Staff Correspondent Around 57 percent of the survivors of the Rana Plaza building collapse the deadliest industrial disaster in the country s history have remained unemployed during the pandemic, a study finds. Meanwhile, around 92 percent of them did not get any support from the government during the pandemic, according to a survey done by ActionAid Bangladesh. Some of the respondents received food and health and hygiene material support from local-level groups and individuals, it said. The findings of the survey were revealed yesterday at a virtual dialogue on Covid-19: Challenges for the Rana Plaza Tragedy Survivors organised by the ActionAid, marking the eighth year of the Rana Plaza disaster in Savar on April 24 in 2013 that left at least 1,138 people dead and 2,500 injured. ....
A decent life April 18, 2021 For some years now I A Rehman Sahib, who passed away gracefully and in harness at age ninety last week, would let out a wry lament, ‘Fighting state oppression presented a clearer adversary than is the case now.’ Society itself had darkened through the years. No matter. He continued to smile, take short, resolute steps and push back against the shadows. He leaves behind a mighty message. One does what one must to preserve decency in society and to live a decent life oneself. Rehman Sahib’s comrade for decades, Professor Amin Mughal, once described for some of us the creed by which the doctor in Camus’ novel ‘The Plague’ lived, even when his efforts seemed so inadequate in quelling the disease. “He did not leave the city when he could have because to do so wouldn’t have looked good. Comrade, the doctor running away from his patients would have been a grotesque spectacle”. Some posts must be guarded, not because it is h ....
Professor Rehman Sobhan turns 86 today. Born in Kolkata into an illustrious family, with connections to the Nawab family of Dhaka from his mother s side and a reputed Murshidabad family from his father s side, Sobhan had no business to be a champion of the poor and the downtrodden. His father was trained at Sandhurst and held a senior post at the Police Department in Kolkata, yet in his maturity Rehman Sobhan stood firmly on the side of the oppressed. Educated at St. Paul s at Darjeeling, where he divided his time between sports and debate excelling in both, it is hard to believe now that once he was a long-distance runner. After finishing college at the Aitchison College, Lahore, he went to Cambridge University where he studied with Joan Robinson and others on the left, who shaped his intellectual orientation. His circle of friends at Cambridge included Amartya Sen, Mahbubul Haque, and Manmohan Singh. Sobhan was elected the president of Majlish, the South Asian students asso ....