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  Procedural loopholes result in lower conviction rates

  | Updated at 12:00am on December 10, 2018

  The rape law in Bangladesh provision for harsher punishment for perpetrators. However, the legal definition of rape and the procedure that will ensure justice for...

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  Conservation of wildlife warrants political will

  | Updated at 12:00am on December 09, 2018

  MORE efforts are needed to conserve wildlife as ever-increasing human activities keep threatening and destroying wildlife habitats....

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  Dhaka must have bilateral deals for migrant workers

  | Updated at 12:00am on December 09, 2018

  THE plight of Bangladeshi migrant workers in destination countries has almost always made the headlines....

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  Domestic violence must stop

  | Updated at 12:00am on December 08, 2018

  A research conducted by ActionAid Bangladesh and Jatiyo Nari Nirjaton Protirodh Forum, Spotlight on Violence Against Women in Bangladesh: Trends and Solution, launched on Thursday...

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  Many a failure makes a mess of canal conservation

  | Updated at 12:00am on December 08, 2018

  THERE has been no exact number of canals that once flowed through the Dhaka city....

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  Actions to mainstream Dalits called for

  | Updated at 12:00am on December 07, 2018

  The demand of the Dalit community for immediate steps to end all kinds of discrimination against them is justifiable. Their leaders, as New Age reported...

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  Regulators must use instruments to stem loan default growth

  | Updated at 12:00am on December 07, 2018

  THE unwillingness, if not inability, of the central bank to use regulatory instruments to arrest the increase of loans in default has pushed the amount,...

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  Delay in fire safety rules disregard to worker safety

  | Updated at 12:00am on December 06, 2018

  STANDARD measures to prevent fire at factories are still not in place and workers continue to fall victim to fire. In the latest incident, two...

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  Enforced disappearance, extrajudicial killing must stop

  | Updated at 12:00am on December 06, 2018

  THE call that victims and families of the victims of enforced disappearance, extrajudicial killing and custodial torture put at a programme in front of the...

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  Policy prioritisation must be translated into action

  | Updated at 12:00am on December 05, 2018

  SUCCESSIVE governments have prioritised rights and needs of the people with disabilities in policies. In 2007, Bangladesh ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of...