Professor Kamel Hawwash/ Middle East Monitor Britain’s two major political parties have been gripped by accusations that they have a problem with racism. In the case of the Labour Party, this allegedly takes the form of anti-Semitism, while in the Conservative Party, it is alleged Islamophobia. Clouding the anti-Semitism issue, somewhat, is the fact that…
Chiranjib Sengupt/Gulf News As the Pepsico chief announces her decision to step down, putting family before career, she continues to be a remarkable inspiration to millions of women and business leaders alike After Indra Nooyi steps down as PepsiCo’s chief executive in October, there will be only 23 women left with top jobs at companies…
John Lloydco, Founded the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford/BDnews24 Two men of influence – the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and the politician Boris Johnson – now face media bans and/or ridicule for what they saw as speaking their minds. Both, though quite different in background, manner and actions,…
Lawrence H Summers/ Channel NewsAsia This period of unprecedented prosperity is being threatened by a sense that not everyone benefits from global integration, says former US Secretary of the Treasury Lawrence H Summers. Since the end of World War II, a broad consensus in support of global economic integration as a force for peace and…
Carolyn Roberts/WION, India The saying goes that the Taj Mahal is pinkish in the morning, milky white in the evening, and golden when the moon shines. Though this may once have been true for the famously pristine marble monument, a mixture of pollution and poor management has now burdened the Taj with a 24-hour layer…
Owen Jones/The Guardian,UK The slaughter in Yemen and the Palestinian territories is happening with British arms and support – and media silence Will not even the massacre of children in Yemen end the silence over the murderous complicity of the British government? They were little kids on a bus on the way back from a…
BSS Five years ago, Chadni admitted to Rajshahi Medical College (RMC) and everything was going fine in fulfilling her dream of becoming a doctor. She had a noble mission of providing healthcare to underprivileged people particularly the rural community. But, Chadni, a fifth year MBBS student hailing from Mymensingh district, suddenly committed suicide by hanging…
President Donald Trump wants to end asylum for Central Americans to keep his campaign promise of halting immigration along the southwest U.S. border. Yet that goal runs afoul of U.S. immigration law, which allows people to enter the United States to seek asylum if they are at a U.S. port of entry or already in…
The statement “Islam does not belong to Germany” by Horst Seehofer, the German politician of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria, is equivalent to the statement “Muslims do not belong to Germany.” The de-individualization of Muslims does not change the discrimination and othering of them. As the term anti-Semitism was needed to highlight the growing…
August 9 marks International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. On its website, the United Nations notes that the focuses this year will include “the challenges and ways forward to revitalise indigenous peoples’ identities and encourage the protection of their rights in or outside their traditional territories”. To be sure, the protection of indigenous rights…