This is part of the first season of Partitions of the Heart: Conversations with Harsh Mander, a Himal Southasian podcast series produced in association with Karwan-e-Mohabbat.
US and Western aid cuts expose global health’s rotten core and leave millions facing preventable deaths from HIV, TB, malaria and more – but the past and the present offer lessons in how to fight back
The Muhammad Yunus-led interim government, constrained by its own limitations and a volatile political climate, risks continuing the abuses of the Sheikh Hasina regime in its efforts at transitional justice
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We’re just 13 new Patrons short of reaching our target of 38 Patrons for 38 years to mark the 38th anniversary of Himal Southasian this
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This week, Cyrus Naji writes about a Media Reform Commission set up by Bangladesh’s interim government to address press freedom, and the threats and patterns
Under Mohammad Yunus’s interim government, a Media Reform Commission has set out to address long-standing problems facing journalists in Bangladesh – but old threats and patterns of control remain
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This week, Shafiur Rahman writes that Bangladesh’s accommodation of the Rohingya, while seen as humanitarian, is part of an exploitative system that profits from their
Bangladesh does not want to invest in the Rohingya community in the long term, and wants to avoid giving them rights or any pathway to citizenship, says the journalist and filmmaker
Bangladesh’s management of the Rohingya, while seen as humanitarian, is part of a system that exploits their labour, commercialises their misfortune and locks them into depending on foreign aid
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This week, Frances Harrison revisits the Batalanda Commission Report detailing human rights abuses at the torture site in Sri Lanka during the leftist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna
