I would love to echo Mario Osava’s words, “The environmental movement won the ideological battle with the growth of awareness on climate change. Environmentalists are no longer seen as “loonies” or granola-eating hippies: the people seen as on the fringe”. Erratic weather, flash floods, overflowing rivers, dyke bursts, extreme heat and drought, cold waves,...
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A 9.9 magnitude earthquake had hit Tahrir Square in the city of Gods. Epicenter was the heart of thousands of people who were desperately seeking way out of 30 years imprisonment under corrupt government. It is, in fact, people’s revolution under the guise of democracy movement. Egypt’s economy is not that bad despite global...
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The boat smashed into the rock, shattered into pieces, dozens of asylum seekers are dead along with bodies of children and women in the rough sea of Christmas island just two weeks before the Christmas event. Screaming of the rest, who are not dead yet, with pieces of floating debris echoing back and forth...
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Suu Kyi’s release on 13th November has relieved citizens across the world who believe in freedom of speech, freedom of thoughts and democracy. She is the most admired and compassionate leader in the contemporary world who has sacrificed personal comfort for a mission to free Burma. Nelson Mandela had set an example in terms...
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October 10, 2010, which in other way 10 10 10 is an important day in the postmodern history of human race. Thousands of advocacy events took place in 187 countries. Citizens around the globe reminded world governments (who are presumed to have the memory of Gold fish) that ‘global climate movement’ is not faded away. Community...
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The International Labor Organization, ILO, uses its 2006 Multilateral Framework on Labor Migration (MLF) to bring together unions, employers and governments to discuss ways of protecting the rights of migrants and ensuring that migration accelerates development in labor-sending countries. For example, since many South Asian migrants rely on private recruiters, the MLF calls for...
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Despite some positive steps, there are accusations against government accountability towards migrant workers. Migrant workers commonly accuse Bangladeshi missions in host countries of indifference. Harassment, harsh behavior of embassy officials and ignorance have developed a sense of hopelessness, helplessness, and frustration among migrant laborers. To add salt to injury, 2,237 dead bodies of migrant...
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Bangladeshi migrant workers have turned into a group of people who are blessings for this poor and small nation state in terms of remittance. On an average, 2,50,000 people annually (1995-2003) migrate to take up overseas employment migration to Middle East and South East Asia had been observed on short-term contract since independence. BMET...
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Scientists have named it once-in-a-century flood. 20 million affected people just thriving out there in Pakistan to back to their every day normal existence, more than 1000 people are believed to be killed, millions have been displaced, villages are washed away, children are fighting water-borne diseases and thousands of women and men crawling towards...
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It is apparent that world along with it’s all poor and miserable nations are already in ‘energy poverty’ and heading faster for a dark age. While we are engaged fighting for right to livelihood and for Sen’s ‘capability-freedom’, energy poverty pushes us back to deeper trouble. According to sources, nearly one-half of the global...
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