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	<title>Unheard Voices</title>
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	<description>All things Bangladesh</description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 10:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>BDI Conference in Boston</title>
		<link>http://www.drishtipat.org/blog/2008/07/04/bdi-conference-in-boston/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drishtipat.org/blog/2008/07/04/bdi-conference-in-boston/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Farida</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Bangla Diaspora]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Boston Conference on Bangladesh in the 21st Century was envisioned by Bangladesh Development Initiative, a small group of academics and professionals who for the past decade or longer, run an organization that puts out the Journal of Bangladesh Studies (JBS) and occasional books on development. 
Information on the group is at www.bdiusa.org
 

I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trapped Trafficked Terrorised</title>
		<link>http://www.drishtipat.org/blog/2008/07/03/trapped-trafficked-terrorised/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drishtipat.org/blog/2008/07/03/trapped-trafficked-terrorised/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:27:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kajalie</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Women]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[torture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Well-paid jobs at garment factories in Dhaka. Employment at steel mills in India or the UAE. Highly-paid work at beauty parlours in Singapore. Marriage. These are the lucrative offers made to women and children in vulnerable situations. Often, however, they turn out to be false promises and victims are trapped and trafficked either from rural [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gender-violence at the work place? Deal with it!</title>
		<link>http://www.drishtipat.org/blog/2008/07/02/gender-violence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drishtipat.org/blog/2008/07/02/gender-violence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fariha</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Women]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[gender violence]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Newage front-page reports that among other things in Bangladesh, the state of gender-based violence at the work place is also deteriorating. Big surprise! The news comes as a result of a survey conducted by the Social Science Research Council of the Planning Commission, under Ministry of Finance and Planning. The news report by BSS [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Messiah Syndrome &#038; Graveyard Of Hope</title>
		<link>http://www.drishtipat.org/blog/2008/07/01/graveyard-of-hope/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drishtipat.org/blog/2008/07/01/graveyard-of-hope/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>khujeci_tomai</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.drishtipat.org/blog/?p=1765</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[1. In the Graveyard of Hope- Faruq Wasif
2. Messiah Syndrome- Shameran Abed

In the Graveyard of Hope- Faruq Wasif
[Prothom Alo, June 28, 2008]
[Translated for Drishtipat by Shabnam Nadiya]
Bangladesh is the name of hope’s graveyard. Bangladesh is another name for waiting. Here, everything almost arrives, but nothing actually, finally comes. But even within the darkness, the possibility [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bangladesh 2008 &#8212; A failing grade.</title>
		<link>http://www.drishtipat.org/blog/2008/06/29/bangladesh-2008-a-failing-grade/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drishtipat.org/blog/2008/06/29/bangladesh-2008-a-failing-grade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rumi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Bangladesh]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Liberation War]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Failed State Index]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.drishtipat.org/blog/?p=1762</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
Somalia 114.2
Sudan 113.0
Zimbabwe 112.5
Chad 110.9
Iraq 110.6
D. R. Congo 106.7
Afghanistan 105.4
Cote d&#8217;Ivoire 104.6
Pakistan 103.8
Central African Republic 103.7
Guinea 101.8
	
Bangladesh 100.3

Burma 100.3
Haiti 99.3
North Korea 97.7
Ethiopia 96.1

[ Graph: The Fund For Peace, Washington, D.C.]
The above is the list of the worst performers in the The failed States Index 2008 recently published jointly by US based Foreign Policy Magazine and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scalding Wake-up Call</title>
		<link>http://www.drishtipat.org/blog/2008/06/29/scalding-wake-up-call/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drishtipat.org/blog/2008/06/29/scalding-wake-up-call/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 04:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hana</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[child labour]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[torture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
At one point her employer poured hot oil down the front of her pyjamas. Wahida tried to stifle her screams by putting cotton in her mouth. From time to time she would hit her in different parts of her body with a rolling pin. One day Wahida scalded her on her cheek, which left a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creative Capitalism: For &#038; Against</title>
		<link>http://www.drishtipat.org/blog/2008/06/28/creative-capitalism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drishtipat.org/blog/2008/06/28/creative-capitalism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 08:18:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Social Entrepreneurship]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[1, Mustofi sounds a skeptical note on &#8220;Creative Capitalism&#8221;
2. Durreen&#8217;s original op-ed on &#8220;Creative Capitalism&#8221;
What is Creative Capitalism?
- Mustofi
Looks like this may be the phrase du jour. But beyond the buzzwords, I am puzzled as to what [Durreen Shahnaz] is actually proposing. On a concrete level, how will this make a sizable dent in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Generation Thing&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.drishtipat.org/blog/2008/06/26/the-generation-thing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drishtipat.org/blog/2008/06/26/the-generation-thing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:14:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rumi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Generation New]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The Future]]></category>

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[New Age Photo]
SSC results are out. For the first time in history of Bangladesh, students could get their result via the cell phone interactive SMS. A whopping 70% test takers passed the exam this year.
This is significantly different from when I took my public exams in the mid 80s. During those days, the only way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>June 26th: Anti Torture Day: What if it was you?</title>
		<link>http://www.drishtipat.org/blog/2008/06/26/june-26th-anti-torture-day-and-mob-justice/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drishtipat.org/blog/2008/06/26/june-26th-anti-torture-day-and-mob-justice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:24:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Asif</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[torture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We, the average citizens, do not protest when some of us lynch  dacoits to death once in a while.

We, the law enforcements officers, kill the &#8220;criminals&#8221; in crossfire in stead of taking them to court time to time.

We, the military intelligence, torture activists and journalists for their writing time to time.

We, the politicians, kill [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Torture: Beyond Rule Of Law</title>
		<link>http://www.drishtipat.org/blog/2008/06/26/torture/</link>
		<comments>http://www.drishtipat.org/blog/2008/06/26/torture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:22:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>khujeci_tomai</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[torture]]></category>

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[Choles Richil, tortured to death in Army custody]
JUNE 26 is UN Day in Support of Victims of Torture. Bangladesh ratified UN Convention Against Torture in 98 but with reservation of Article 14 (providing compensation to victims). Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture was adopted by UN in 2006. 35 countries ratified the protocol, Bangladesh [...]]]></description>
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