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The Bangladesh government should end restrictions on Rohingya refugees’...Read more about Bangladesh: Clampdown on Rohingya Refugees

Bangladesh has made economic progress under Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. The country has maintained an impressive growth record of between 6–7.9 per cent over the past five years. The World Bank endorses the country as among the five fastest-growing economies in the world and forecasts...Read more about Academic freedom under pressure in Bangladesh

Originally published at Bangladesh Politico: A blog by David Bergman on Bangladesh politics...Read more about How safe is the current Awami League government?

The imprisonment of Bangladesh’s most respected photojournalist illustrates the country’s drift toward autocracy.

On Aug. 5, Shahidul Alam, the acclaimed Bangladeshi photojournalist, was dragged from his home by around 30 plainclothes policemen and taken into custody. The policemen...Read more about Who Is Afraid of Shahidul Alam?

The scenes in Dhaka over the past week, leadingto the outrageous arrest and torture of one of Bangladesh’s greatest chroniclers, Shahidul Alam, highlight three crucial aspects about Bangladesh. One, that the powerful don’t like criticism and target witnesses first; two, that aroused students...Read more about Opinion: When a witness is arrested in Bangladesh

Bangladesh, which became independent from Pakistan in 1971, is a young country. Only 7 percent of the...Read more about Bangladeshi rappers wield rhymes as a weapon, with Tupac as their guide

The April 2013 Rana Plaza collapse, which resulted in the death of more than 1,125 people working in garment factories in the building, drew widespread attention to hazardous labour conditions in the export garment-manufacturing industry in Bangladesh. Five years later, two international...Read more about Beyond Third-party Monitoring: Post-Rana Plaza Interventions

In January, U.S. secretary of defense James Mattis articulated the case for viewing environmental and national security as interrelated, arguing that “the effects of a changing climate—such as increased maritime access to the Arctic, rising sea levels, desertification, among others—impact our...Read more about Bangladesh’s Climate Change Challenge

On 14 September, an Indian Air Force aircraft landed in Chittagong with 53 tonnes of relief materials, including food, salt, cooking oil and mosquito nets. The delivery was meant to help Bangladesh cope with the vast influx of Rohingyas—a minority community in Myanmar that is facing large-scale...Read more about The Reluctant Philanthropist: India’s untenable position on the Rohingya crisis