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Covid lessons for cholera handling
Oped, Firdausi Qadri & Taufiqul Islam, Published on 04/05/2022
» Since Covid-19 engulfed the world two years ago, "unprecedented" has become something of a buzzword. But while the coronavirus has posed unique challenges at a time of deep global interconnectedness, pandemics are nothing new. The Covid-19 pandemic is not even the only one we are currently experiencing. In much of the developing world, cholera outbreaks are proliferating.
Palestine objects to US embassy move at ICJ
News, Md Rizwanul Islam, Published on 06/10/2018
» The International Court of Justice (ICJ), through its press release, has informed that Palestine has lodged a complaint against the United States, arguing that the latter’s shifting of its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem violates the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.
USA's baffling exit from UN Human Rights Council
News, Rizwanul Islam, Published on 25/06/2018
» After threatening to withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) for some time, finally on June 19, the Trump administration declared its withdrawal. The UNHRC, an international body of 47 states with a rotating membership, is tasked with the protection of human rights and condemning states for violation of human rights. Possibly, even for casual observers of the global politics, this move by Mr Trump's Administration may not spring a surprise. After all, this administration has been isolationist on many pressing global matters and this is just one in that list. However, what this move would achieve is not clear and it does not seem that the US would achieve any of the things that Washington says it would.