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		<title>CHT: Beyond Narratives</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Genocide Prevention]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chittagong Hill Tracts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several blog posts have been written in the recent months since the Sajek incident in CHT (Chittagong Hill Tracts) followed by two well-publicised fact finding reports. These reports also brought the Kalpana Chakma campaign in the forefront, once again, reviving her cause in the public domain. While activists are mobilising, organising, speaking for justice, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordsandbites.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3251252&amp;post=74&amp;subd=wordsandbites&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Proposed EU Directive with Possible Human Rights Implications</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 22:28:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[European Union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deportation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[detention]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just came across the news of a proposed European Union Directive which is going to be submitted before the European Parliament on 18 June 2008. This is the very first Directive subjected to the co-decision procedure seeking EU Parliament&#8217;s involvement in EU law making, which, quite ironically, was aimed at ameliorating the perceived democratic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordsandbites.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3251252&amp;post=71&amp;subd=wordsandbites&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Microcredit, Poverty, and the Merchant of Venice</title>
		<link>http://wordsandbites.wordpress.com/2008/05/17/on-dr-muhammad-yunus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 11:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Micro Credit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Banker for the Poor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grameen Bank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nobel Prize]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yunus]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Without resorting to any research jargon let me start by saying that on a number of occasions I had the opportunity to talk to &#8216;microcredit&#8217; borrowers. From them, I particularly wanted to know more about microcredit and its effects on their lives. Some of the stories they told, were both enlightening and disturbing. Strangely, these [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordsandbites.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3251252&amp;post=64&amp;subd=wordsandbites&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&quot;Responsibility to Protect&quot; and Coercive Aid Intervention</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 13:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Genocide Prevention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Myanmar]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an interesting piece on &#8220;responsibility to protect&#8221; type interventions under international law to deliver post-disaster emergency humanitarian assistance: Facing Up to Our Responsibilities &#160; By Gareth Evans (The Guardian, 12 May 2008) &#160; If the intransigence of the Burmese generals continues, we will have to face the question of whether in the name [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordsandbites.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3251252&amp;post=61&amp;subd=wordsandbites&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Food Price Crisis Triggers Questions about Global Food Security</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 12:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[by Zachary Sugg at World Resources Institute] &#160; Skyrocketing food prices have triggered riots across the developing world and forced the world&#8217;s largest food aid agency to confront a $500 million deficit. The media are focused on short-term consequences, but there are also concerns about the long-term forecast for global food security, poverty, and hunger. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordsandbites.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3251252&amp;post=53&amp;subd=wordsandbites&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on &quot;Generation Bangladesh&quot; Article in The Daily Star</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:44:11 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Generation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ideology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[[the post is written in first person as an open letter to the article author] &#160; Dear Salahuddin, &#160; I have recently read this Daily Star article of yours with interest. Otherwise an intriguing piece, I am somewhat at a loss on some of the points. I would only discuss three of them: &#160; &#160; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordsandbites.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3251252&amp;post=40&amp;subd=wordsandbites&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bangladesh Genocide Archive Online: An Appeal</title>
		<link>http://wordsandbites.wordpress.com/2008/03/26/bangladesh-genocide-archive-online-an-appeal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:32:57 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Documentation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1971]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Al-Badr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Al-Shams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Archive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bangladesh Liberation War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Here is the link: www.genocidebangladesh.org &#160; Our heartfelt congratulations to everyone involved in this mammoth initiative. A solid contribution indeed; one of the decisive early steps that would take us a long way towards justice for 1971. As said, it is a “continuing and collaborative” project. So in the end it is up to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordsandbites.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3251252&amp;post=14&amp;subd=wordsandbites&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Of Generals and Judges</title>
		<link>http://wordsandbites.wordpress.com/2008/03/23/of-generals-and-judges/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:29:48 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Bangladesh]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Musharraf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Removal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shah Abu Nayeem Mominur Rahman]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; “The High Court giveth and the Appellate Division taketh away.” &#160; This week, we observed how another decision of the High Court got over turned by the Appellate Division. We hear, a number of “rogue” benches in the High Court Division of the Supreme Court have become a constant source of embarrassment for the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordsandbites.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3251252&amp;post=13&amp;subd=wordsandbites&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hospitality, Dhaka Style: Akhavan, Sloan and Another</title>
		<link>http://wordsandbites.wordpress.com/2008/03/04/hospitality-dhaka-style-akhavan-sloan-and-another/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:17:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Payam Akhavan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prime Minister]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sheikh Hasina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Sloan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The injustices in the world are so overwhelming, so enraging, that it is unacceptable, indeed immoral, not to fight for justice with every bit of one’s strength.&#8221; Today I have decided to write about the person who made the above statement. His name is Payam Akhavan, the renowned human rights lawyer representing Sheikh Hasina (former [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordsandbites.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3251252&amp;post=90&amp;subd=wordsandbites&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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