Bangladesh has been blessed with multicultural heritage as well as history. There are about 57 ethnic minorities in Bangladesh. According to the survey of 2011, the country’s ethnic minority population is around 1,586,141 which comprise 1.8% of the total population though they claim they are 3 million. Ethnic minorities like to address themselves as indigenous…Read More
Month: December 2017
Jerusalem: A Boiling Pot Ready to Spill Over
Jerusalem is a significant city for three big religions of the world: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. It contains holy sites and relics sacred to devotees of each faith. Due to its importance, Jerusalem has been a hotspot in the Middle East as it is divided into eastern and western parts. The article is a summary…Read More
Nepal-EU Relations: Donor-Receiver or a Mutual One
Abstract The piece is an attempt to explain the Nepal-EU relations. In the first part, the historical context of EU-Nepal relation has been explained. It mainly focuses on the beginning of Nepal and Britain relation through military cooperation. Then, the relations developed on the onset of the emergence of global agencies have been developed. After…Read More
Food Waste in Numbers: Shaping Global Awareness for Sustainable Food Systems
Food is among the basic need according to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. In the World Economic Forum (WEF) held in 2015 launched the Global Challenge on Food Security and Agriculture. The forum attended by 1400 leaders in over 500 organizations in 19 countries. This is in support of The Sustainable Development Goals call for Ending…Read More
Does competition make a worth or dearth?
To rear, a child is a development of his proximal domains (physical and mental capacity) to revere decision-making abilities and provide an onset understanding of his environment and self. Just like a market competition, one lone stronghold or business enterprise would never develop without outside intervention nor tangential competition. With this scenario, the economic policies…Read More
The Struggle of Educating a Girl Child
The voyage of advancing human rights across the globe can be traced back to the 1940’s. It all began after the drafting of the Universal Declaration of human rights in 1948; that our struggle began, the struggle of educating a girl child. However, the journey is prolonged day after day by social issues that impede…Read More
Assessing risk of new war in Eastern Europe
In the light of recent aggression of Russia towards Ukraine and exponential increase of tensions between Moscow and NATO allows suggesting that Kremlin is aiming for the long-term confrontation with the possibility of further escalation. The most obvious targets for the future aggression are Poland and the Baltic countries. In this the report we argue…Read More
Loss and Damage in the Context of Bangladesh: Inadequacy of Adaptation due to Increasing Climate Risk & A Range of Approaches to Address Loss and Damage
‘Loss and Damage’ has become a fundamental issue for Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and gained recognition as the third pillar of international climate policy, after mitigation and adaptation. ‘Loss and damage’ refers to negative phenomena of climate unpredictability and climate change that people have not been able to…Read More
Gender based Racism: a social evil in the context of Asia
From the history of Babel, humanity divided them based on racial and ethnic identity. Every ethnic group wants consolidation and believes in expansion, reservation, and glorification. They want to propagate their identity and ideology. This identity could also be the sexual identity of women and men are considered as two different race. The term leadership…Read More
The Depression in Greek Economy
A Greek Nobel laureate once wrote, “Wherever I go, Greece hurts me”. Frankly, I must admit that I often have that same feeling as Yiorgos Seferis used to and I have been judging Greece’s mistakes over the centuries. Nonetheless, it is also true that as Greeks we have been proud of our country and we…Read More