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Sheikh Hasina's UN Speech: Solution to Rohingya Crisis

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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called upon the United Nations and the international community to take immediate and effective measures for a permanent solution to the Rohingya crisis. She came up with the call while addressing the 72nd session of the UN General Assembly on September 22.
"Myanmar must unconditionally stop the violence and the practice of ethnic cleansing in the Rakhine immediately and forever," she said in the first proposal.
UN Secretary-General should immediately send a fact-finding mission to Myanmar, she said in her second proposal. "All civilians irrespective of religion and ethnicity must be protected in Myanmar. For that, 'safe zones' could be created inside Myanmar under UN supervision," was her third proposal. Sheikh Hasina in her fourth proposal called for ensuring return of all the forcibly-displaced Rohingyas in Bangladesh to their homes in Myanmar.
In her last proposal, she said the recommendations of the Kofi Annan Commission Report must be immediately implemented unconditionally and in its entirety. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said, this was the 14th time she was addressing the UN General Assembly and this time she has come with a heavy heart. "I've come here just after seeing the hungry, distressed and hopeless Rohingyas from Myanmar who have taken shelter in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh..
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IHRC North Indian Regional Human Rights Conference in Kharagpur

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International Human Rights Commission-IHRC North Indian Regional Charpter Organized a regional human rights conference on 11th July 2017 at Kharagpur (South of West Bangal & border of Orrisha state) India. Dr.M.Arshad vice president of IHRC presided over the conference. Internatoonal Secretary General of IHRC Dr.Saiful l.Dildar inagurated this conference as a Chief Guest. Different state representative of IHRC like west Bengal, Orissha, Telenga,Karnetak,Kerela,Jharkhand, Rajasthan and Maharastra representative presented this conference.
North Indian Regional Chapter General Secretary Mr.Aynul Hossain, Advocate Shapna Basu (Khandakar) president of IHRC WB Chapter and Suranjit Kormokar General Secretary IHRC West Bangal charpter, Shekh Gaush President of Telenga State,Girish Bora Legal Advicer of IHRC and NIC,Swapan Kr. Bhatachary Vice President of IHRC, A.D.Burman member of IHRC and NIC. Reknowned Lawyer and President of BHRC Kurigram District branch Abraham Lincon, BHRC Feni Dist. President Shahidullah Bhuiyan including over 25 human rights Leaders has also given their speech this conference . Hundreds of Human Rights Activists from India and Bangladesh presented this conference.Over 30 Human Rights Activists also achieved the human Rights award. A Cultural program organised and childrens also performed there.
 

The need for discipline on our roads

 

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here is and has always been a paramount need for discipline on city roads. Dhaka is certainly among those rare number of cities in the world where an absolutely carefree attitude to behaviour on the roads, both by pedestrians and motorists, is in fashion. Surprisingly, those whose responsibility it is to enforce the rules on the road, and we refer to the traffic policemen on duty, seem to be indifferent to the whole idea. Of course, in fits and starts the police get to work on the issue, particularly when a police week or something similar happens to come up. Again, during VIP movements, an overzealous police force gets to work, to a point where people are not even allowed to walk on the pavements. Everything must come to a stop when a VIP goes by.
Overall, though, the problem of how we as citizens use our roads is a critical one. Pedestrians are simply not bothered about rules. The presence of overhead foot bridges to facilitate pedestrian movement is ignored and people cheerfully indulge in jaywalking, often in full view of traffic sergeants and constables. Such conditions are fraught with risks, but does the pedestrian care? As if that were not enough, there are the drivers, of all kinds of vehicles, who appear to have decided that violating traffic rules is fine in a country where powerful and influential people often skirt around the law to achieve their nefarious aims. Vehicles come to a stop on zebra crossings, forcing people to cross over to the other side in slithering, snake-like manner. At the same time, the arrogance-laden impunity with which drivers change lanes in order to overtake one another on the road is behaviour which shows no signs of abating. Add to that the brazen manner in which motor-cyclists happily go by without their helmets on and often have their two-wheelers climb on to pavements in order to beat the bad traffic on the road. Not long ago, the High Court issued an order prohibiting motor-cyclists from having their vehicles use pavements. No one has followed that directive.
Indeed, there are reasons to think that as a society, insofar as road traffic is concerned, we are reverting to old times when traffic was controlled manually by the police. Over the last few years, that old mechanism has reappeared, even though the traffic lights are seemingly at work. The results have been bad.
 

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Thai ex-PM sentenced to five years in jail
 

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Former Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has been found guilty of criminal negligence and sentenced in absentia to five years in prison.
The supreme court convicted her of mishandling a rice subsidy scheme which allegedly cost Thailand at least $8bn.
Ousted in 2014, weeks before a military coup, and later impeached, Ms Yingluck denies all charges and fled before the verdict, reportedly to Dubai.
Public opinion is divided. She remains popular with rural and poor voters.
The scheme hit Thailand's rice exports, leading to an estimated loss the military government says was at least $8bn.
Though popular with her rural voter base, the scheme was too expensive and open to corruption, her opponents said.
Where is she?
Ms Yingluck is now thought to be in Dubai where her brother, former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, lives in self-imposed exile avoiding a 2008 sentence for corruption.
Ms Yingluck entered politics only after his sentence and was seen by critics as a proxy for her ousted brother.
Both siblings remain popular among Thailand's rural poor, but are opposed by an urban and middle-class elite.
She is unlikely to serve any of her sentence because she is out of the country.
The trail ran over two years, with a ruling initially scheduled for late August.
When Ms Yingluck surprisingly failed to show up in court, the verdict was postponed and an arrest warrant was issued for her.

 

Dhaka seeks concrete steps thru' UN for sending back Rohingyas

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Bangladesh expects concrete steps through the UN Security Council so that the 'forcibly displaced people from Myanmar' in Bangladesh can go back to their homeland smoothly and without any fear.
"...we expect such steps through which they (Rohingyas) will return to their homeland smoothly," Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali told reporters on Wednesday.
He said the countries which are not members of the UNSC can also give their speeches in the open debate of the UNSC on Thursday. UNB reports.
"Bangladesh will also place its remarks (through envoy) in the debate," he said.
The UN Security Council will meet on Thursday to discuss the violence in Myanmar and hear a briefing from UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on the crisis, diplomatic sources said.
Earlier, the Foreign Minister briefed the nine diplomats stationed in Dhaka representing the countries which are members of the UN Security Council over Rohingya issue at the state guesthouse.
The Council is composed of 15 Members with five permanent members -- China, France, Russian Federation, the United Kingdom, and the United States-- and 10 non-permanent members elected for two-year terms by the General Assembly (with end of term date).
Apart from the five permanent members, diplomats of Japan, Italy, Sweden and Egypt attended the briefing.
State Minister for Foreign M Shahriar Alam and Foreign Secretary M Shahidul Haque were also present.
The Foreign Minister said all the countries have sympathy and support for Bangladesh over the Rohingya issue.
"Bangladesh wants a peaceful solution. We don't want to get involved in any conflict," Ali said.
The Foreign Minister also said the State Counsellor's Office of Myanmar is sending their minister who wants to meet Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
"You know the Prime Minister is now in the USA," he said indicating that Bangladesh wants to wait until the PM's return.
India, China and the United States are 'strongly with Bangladesh' over Rohingya issue and Myanmar is now 'absolutely cornered' amid mounting international pressure on the Southeast Asian country, says a government source. Bangladesh, at this point, is expecting a 'concrete steps' through UNSC resolution to resolve the crisis as 'forcibly displaced people from Myanmar' continued flooding Bangladesh as the current figure of new arrivals stand at 449,000.
"We're working behind the scene. There're signs. We want to keep up the momentum (in diplomacy) but we need more time to take the momentum to the next stage to have concrete outcomes," the highly placed source said on 26 September.

Drinking 3 cups of coffee a day can cut

risk of death in HIV patients: study

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Drinking at least three cups of coffee and not smoking daily may half the risk of mortality in patients infected by both human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV).
Patients infected by both HIV and HCV are at specific risk of end-stage liver disease and greater risk of cardiovascular diseases and cancer.
According to researchers, HIV-HCV co-infected patients, drinking at least three cups of coffee each day halved the risk of all-cause mortality.
In the general population, drinking three or more cups of coffee a day has been found to be associated with a 14 percent reduction in the risk of all-cause mortality.
In addition, HIV infection accelerates the progression of chronic hepatitis C to fibrosis and development of cirrhosis and end-stage liver disease.
"This is a very exciting time for HCV research as a cure that can eradicate the virus is now available for all patients," explained lead investigator Dominique Salmon-Ceron from Universite Paris Descartes, Paris.
Coffee is known to have anti-inflammatory and liver-protective properties.
This is probably due to the properties of polyphenols contained in coffee that can protect the liver and also reduce inflammation.
The team used data from a five-year follow-up of 1,028 HIV-HCV co-infected patients. At enrolment, one in four patients reported drinking at least three cups of coffee daily.
Over the five years, 77 deaths occurred, almost half attributable to hepatitis C.
However, the mortality risk was 80 percent lower in those who were cured of hepatitis C. Further analysis showed that drinking at least three cups of coffee daily was associated with a 50 percent reduction in mortality risk even after taking into account HCVclearance, HIV- and HCV-related factors, and other sociobehavioral factors, such as having a steady partner and not smoking.
This research highlighted the importance of behaviors - coffee consumption and not smoking in particular - on reduced mortality risk.
First author Maria Patrizia Carrieri from Aix Marseille University, Marseilles, France, observed that coffee consumption provides more protective effects on mortality in the HIV-HCV population than in the general population.

 

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