The EU’s top court has ruled against Italy’s use of Albania-based migrant detention centres, saying countries can't declare another nation "safe" for asylum seekers unless that...
It was always going to be a hard year for Bangladesh. Last summer, amid an economic collapse, protesters toppled a tyrant and pushed the country to...
It is easy to call for human rights from EU offices in Brussels and Luxembourg, our old, established democracies. In Bangladesh, Yunus is trying to build...
Lawyers for Siddiq said the charges against Tulip Siddiq were “politically motivated” and “completely false,” and that Dhaka has provided no evidence to support its claims.
A brewing shift toward religious conservatism has emerged from the political vacuum in this country of 175 million people.
Attacks by the group, the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army, were used as a pretext by the Myanmar military to launch a campaign of ethnic cleansing that...
As many as 1,400 people were killed, mostly by the country's security services, in demonstrations last summer against the now ousted leader Sheikh Hasina.
The building in the capital of Dhaka was gutted while the country's recently-deposed prime minister gave a fiery social media speech from exile in India.
A diplomatic dispute over claims of persecution of Bangladeshi Hindus threatens to upend Bangladesh’s interim government.
India and Bangladesh have traded angry accusations about Bangladesh’s Hindu minority.