Maher Sattar
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Labor and human rights groups in India are bringing a Fair Food Program-style model to the sugar industry, hoping to push big brands to sign binding legal agreements to protect workers and adopt humane standards.
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Chandan Kumar, India Sugar Industry Workers Association: “This partnership will help Indian producers align with global standards and respond to international calls for greater transparency and...
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@JackofBlades22 @muktadirnewage @mahersattar (Sigh) The ulterior motive is a thousand year old one: patriarchy. Read this, it’s free, it’s brilliant and it’s precisely about patriarchy and how Bangladeshi women have been fighting it
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Not forgotten - deliberately sidelined. Great piece on the role of Women in the Bangladesh Monsoon uprising from @muktadirnewage and @mahersattar
After the July uprise, women’s contribution is forgotten.
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Bangladesh’s Revolutionary Women Have Disappeared My joint byline with my mentor @mahersattar
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The country’s women turned a movement into an uprising, but then were pushed aside.
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Gen Z women in Bangladesh turned the tide in successfully ousting the country’s iron-fisted leader. Then, they were sidelined from public and political participation. Read @FullerProject’s @mahersattar and @muktadirnewage’s latest with @ForeignPolicy.
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The country’s women turned a movement into an uprising, but then were pushed aside.
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The @ndtv piece claims Transparency International Bangladesh found over 2,000 cases of minorities being targeted since Hasina’s government fell. Curious, I asked TIB’s executive director Iftekharuzzaman, who said, “No idea where they got this figure from.” https://t.co/eo2f1kFehW
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According to a report by the Bangladesh branch of the Berlin-based human rights group Transparency International, minorities have been targeted in more than 2,000 incidents of violence since Hasina...
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There are indeed human rights concerns in Bangladesh, some of them quite serious, but this highly inaccurate and misleading APPG report is a disgrace, failing to provide any proper context and seriously exaggerating the problems. It is quite extraordinary for a UK parliamentary
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Long-overdue but a welcome development for the victims of horrifying atrocities.
Statement of #ICC Prosecutor @KarimKhanQC: Application for an arrest warrant in the situation in #Bangladesh/#Myanmar ⤵️ https://t.co/OyQHr9q29r
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Take a behind-the-scenes look at our latest investigation on India's sugar farms, the systemic abuses within the industry, and the relationship between sugar and politics. More in this week's newsletter from @mahersattar: https://t.co/kJelFhww0O
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Our latest @FullerProject investigation with @nytimes: In many cases, the people who could do something for women in debt bondage in Mahrashtra's sugar farms are the very people who benefit from their exploitation
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Politicians run most of the mills in the state of Maharashtra. They deny or downplay evidence of coerced hysterectomies, debt bondage and child labor in the fields.
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1/🧵 Kazi Anis Ahmed, a liberal Bangladeshi media tycoon, covertly financed a far-right lobbying campaign in Washington via a Dubai firm. Aligning with Sheikh Hasina’s now-deposed regime, he risked violating laws. Here’s how it unraveled: https://t.co/1ArCBWr7ar
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This story is developing quickly. I have just spoken to AFP's fact checker Qadaruddin Shishir, who has confirmed that the video was (a) first posted on social media at least six years ago in 2018; (b) that in 2019, the Daily Mail along with other media, showing screen shots from
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Cellphone video footage showed a Brazilian gang joking inside a cell before reportedly leading a revolt Sunday that left 10 inmates dead and 15 injured at a penitentiary in Paraguay.
The UK and European spokesperson of the Jamaat-e-Islami has responded to my tweet below where I had commented on the video which showed a brutal attack. Muhammad Mollah told me this: “Jamaat denies unequivocally any involvement in the incident depicted in the video. We have
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Those interested in #Bangladesh kleptocracy under the Awami League government - with a UK (and apparently also Signapore, Malaysian Dubai, and US) angle, this looks like something definitely to watch. Cant wait! (Made by @AJIunit, who also made All the Prime Ministers Men)
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#Horrific A shocking incident has emerged from Katni GRP police station in Madhya Pradesh, where a Dalit mother and her minor son were brutally beaten up by police officials inside the police station itself. Manuwadi media remains silent as usual... #DalitLivesMatter
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Alpa Shah, in 'The Incarcerations: Bhima Koregaon and the Search For Democracy in India,' finds hope in the fact that “it was impossible to kill the spirit of these custodians of democracy,” despite the force of state-sanctioned suppression. https://t.co/sw3UGg8evL
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Three new books combine primary research with a compilation of existing reportage by journalists on the ground to archive the BK-16 arrests, to provide biographical background on the political...
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Since a bunch of folks are talking about the unrealized capital gains tax, some nuance: https://t.co/dWJNrLfjTd
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The BBC has pieced together evidence of a civilian massacre in Myanmar. Scores of Rohingyas killed. Survivors blame insurgent Arakan Army, the group denies it.Thousands have fled to Bangladesh in the past 2 weeks. These are some of their harrowing stories.
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The BBC has spoken to survivors to piece together the attack on civilians earlier this month.
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“Rohingya National League Denounces Arakan Army's Systematic Eradication Plan of Rohingya Community” On behalf of The Rohingya National League, we express our deep concern and outrage over the alarming reports of a systematic plan by the Arakan Army (AA) to completely eradicate
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