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Women leaders' network needed for gender equality: PM Hasina

 

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Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina underscored the need for forming a Women Leaders' Network as it would help ensure gender equality.
She said: "It is greatly empowering to be with you all. I strongly feel that we can establish a Women Leaders' Network which can bring us together, not just for one-off meetings, but to act as a force to ensure real actions to achieve gender equality."
Sheikh Hasina was addressing a high-level meeting on Women Leaders, convened by the President of the General Assembly.
Besides, she placed three proposals before the world leaders at the meeting that need to be addressed properly to ensure gender equality.
"I commend you for founding the Advisory Board on Gender Equality. This now needs to be localized. We need gender champions at every level, especially at the grass roots level, and we can lead by example," said the Bangladesh PM.
Secondly, the women-led organizations need to be nurtured and supported with sufficient political and financial means, she said, adding the UN has an important role in supporting such efforts.
Sheikh Hasina, in her third and final proposal, said, "I invite you to convene a leaders' summit to reinforce our common agenda for gender equality. All leaders - not just us - should join and present concrete commitments for advancing gender equality."
 

BHRC Human Rights Report on September- 2021
1315 people died of Covid-19 in September 2021
Total 208 person killed in September 2021

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The documentation section of Bangladesh Human Rights Commission (BHRC) and International Human Rights Commission-IHRC jointly furnished this human rights survey report on the basis of daily newspapers and information received from its district, sub-district and municipal branches. BHRC survey found a total of 208 deaths in the killings. According to official figures, 1315 people died of the Covid-19 in all over the country. In September 2021, there were an average of 44 Covid-19 deaths and 7 deaths in killing per day. The Law enforcing agencies and related Govt. departments should be more responsible so that percentage of killing May be brought down to zero level. To institutionalize the democracy and to build human rights based society the rule of law and order must be established everywhere. Through enforcing rule of law only such violation against human rights can be minimized. 1315 persons died by corona virus in August 2021 according to official estimates.
It appears from documentation division of BHRC:
Total 208 person killed in September 2021
Killed due to social discrepancy 3, killing by family violence 15, Political Killing 6, Killed by Law enforcing authority 2, Killed by BSF 2, Abduction 3, Assassination 2, Mysterious death 60, Women & Chilled killed due to rape 4
Killed by several accidents: Killed by road accident 102, Suicide 10
Besides victims of torture: Rape 10, Sexual Harassment 2.


 

UN in talks with Bangladesh govt. to review DSA: Mia Seppo

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UN in talks with Bangladesh govt. to review DSA: Mia Seppo
"The solution to the Rohingya refugee situation lies with Myanmar," she said
UN Resident Coordinator Mia Seppo. Photo: Collected
The United Nations' Resident Coordinator Mia Seppo on Sunday said the UN is in talks with Bangladesh's law ministry to review the Digital Security Act (DSA) and stop its misuse.
While responding to a question about elections in the country, she said the UN is also willing to cooperate if Bangladesh wants it to.
The UN resident coordinator also conveyed the global organisation's concern over signs of shrinking civic space, growing inequality and violence against women in Bangladesh.
"Global shrinking of civic space is a big concern, but for a country that aspires for democracy, it is not healthy," she said.
Mia Seppo made the remarks during an event organised by the Diplomatic Correspondents Association of Bangladesh at the Foreign Service Academy in Dhaka.
She further said the proposal from the World Bank regarding Rohingyas in Bangladesh has been misunderstood.
"The solution to the Rohingya refugee situation lies with Myanmar," she said. "The most viable, durable solution is the voluntary repatriation of refugees in safety, dignity and sustainability," she said.
Mia Seppo said the United Nations supports the World Bank's global refugee policy, although many countries have and will have differences in global policy with local policy.
 

Announce orders in open court SC directs lower court judges
 

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The Supreme Court administration on Wednesday issued a notification asking the judges of the subordinate courts across the country to deliver their all ad interim orders including the bail and verdicts in the open court in the presence of the parties concerned or their lawyers.
Md Golam Rabbani, Registrar of the High Court division of the Supreme Court, issued the notification with the instruction of the higher authority.
The High Court Bench of Justice M Enayetur Rahima and Justice Md Mostafizur Rahman in a verdict delivered on September 2, 2021 asked the lower court judges to announce their all ad interim orders including bail orders and verdicts in the open court in the presence of the parties concerned or their lawyers to ensure transparency and accountability, said the notification. In this circumstance, all the judges of the lower courts have been directed to follow the directions mentioned in the judgment of the High Court, also read the notification.
The High Court Bench by that order cancelled a lower court order that granted bail to suspended deputy inspector general (DIG) prisons Partha Gopal Banik in an "unusual manner" in a case filed over the recovery of Tk 8.0 million from his residence in Dhaka.
The High Court at the same time asked the suspended official to surrender in the trail court by September 20 this year. It also ordered to transfer the case to the speedy trail tribunal-4 in Dhaka and asked the tribunal to complete the case by February 28 in 2022.
 

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Security to Bangabandhu's family: SSF Bill placed in parliament

 

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Special Security Force Bill, 2021 was placed in the Jatiya Sangsad aiming to bring the family members of the country's founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, alongside the president and the prime minister of the country, under life-long security coverage of the force.
Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque today placed the bill in the House with Speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury in the chair.
Piloting the bill, the minister said the proposed bill has been placed for amending the previous Special Security Force Ordinance 1986.
On May 17, the cabinet in principle endorsed the draft bill that incorporated family members of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman for providing lifelong state security to them at home and abroad.
The cabinet secretary on that day said that Sheikh Mujib's two surviving daughters, their husbands and children would get SSF for their security according to the proposed law.
He said that the very important persons like the head of the government or state from foreign countries or anyone designated as a very important person by the government in the country also get SSF security coverage.
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was assassinated along with all but two of his family members on August 15, 1975, at his Dhanmondi residence in Dhaka by a group of army personnel.
His daughters - Sheikh Hasina, now the prime minister, and Sheikh Rehana - survived the massacre as they were abroad at that time.
The principal duty of the force is to provide physical security to the president and the prime minister.
'The proposed law would replace the Special Security Force Ordinance 1986, which was a martial law proclamation and was nullified by a High Court Order,' cabinet secretary Khandker Anwarul Islam told a press briefing after the meeting.
The minister urged the house to sent the bill to the parliamentary standing committee on Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Ministry for providing report within 30 days.
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 Bangladesh seeks US investment
 

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State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam has invited US investment in Bangladesh and requested the USA authorities for providing duty-free market access to Bangladesh products. The state minister participated in a meeting with Wendy Sherman, Deputy Secretary of State of the USA along with other ministers and senior officials from Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka in New York on 15 September.
During the meeting, ShahriarAlam highlighted the social and economic developments of Bangladesh even during the Covid-19 situation under the visionary leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
He also talked about the climate challenges faced by Bangladesh and other climate vulnerable countries, and the pioneering role played by Bangladesh in addressing these challenges.
 

Myanmar monks march against military junta

 

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Scores of pro-democracy Buddhist monks took to the streets of Myanmar's second-biggest city Saturday, rallying against the military coup in demonstrations that coincided with the 14th anniversary of previous clergy-led mass protests, reports AFP.
Myanmar has been in turmoil and its economy paralysed since February when the military ousted Aung San SuuKyi's civilian government, ending a ten-year experiment with democracy.
Around the country an anti-junta resistance has taken root, prompting the military to unleash a brutal crackdown on dissent. More than 1,100 civilians have been killed and 8,400 arrested, according to a local monitoring group.
Historically, monks in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar have been seen as a supreme moral authority, organising communities and at times mobilising opposition to the military regimes. But the coup has exposed a schism in the monkhood, with some prominent clerics giving the generals their blessing and others supporting the protesters.
On Saturday, dozens of monks in their bright orange and crimson robes marched through the streets of Mandalay with flags and banners and threw colourful streamers in the air.
"Monks who love the truth stand on the side of the people," a protest leader told AFP.
 

US army have proved pathetically unfit and undependable
 

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Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, has called the 20-year war in Afghanistan a 'Strategic failure' and that he believes the U.S. should have kept several thousand troops in that country to prevent the unexpectedly rapid takeover by the Taliban.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Commander of U.S. Central Command Gen. Kenneth McKenzie also testified during a Tuesday hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee. The entire war that followed the 9/11 attacks on the US by the al-Qaeda of Osama Bin Laden in 2001 came up for critical review during hearing.
It featured rigorous questioning from lawmakers on both sides of the political divide. Democratic and Republican lawmakers alike criticised the chaotic withdrawal that saw U.S. troops try to coordinate a mammoth evacuation of Americans and Afghan allies.
The defence services men upheld their actions during the chaotic withdrawal from Kabul in August but could not conceal the fact that their mission in Afghanistan failed as it did in Vietnam 48 years before in the early seventies of the last century.
Observers don't miss the point that the Taliban which the American forces went to destroy only emerged stronger after the 20-year war. In both Vietnam and Afghanistan the US forces not only conceded defeat but also virtually ran out from unsecured positions. It's a great shame for a world power like America to have embraced this following a war that cost 2,461 American lives and two trillion dollars.

 

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