Archive for August 7th, 2024

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07/08/2024

The Demise of Democracy and Human Rights Violations in Bangladesh: International Financial Institutions’ Culpability

Human Wrongs Watch

By Anis Chowdhury, Khalilur Rahman and Ziauddin Hyder

SYDNEY, NEW YORK, WASHINGTON DC, Aug 6 2024 (IPS)* – The International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank and Asian Development Bank (ADB) are complicit in the gross human rights violations and death of democracy in Bangladesh.

Anis Chowdhury

They continued to supply financial blood line to the regime, well-documented for its corruptions, human rights violations – such as forced disappearances and tortures in custody – and riggings of votes, including politicization of state institutions in its slide into autocracy.

This is despite their professed commitment to transparency, accountability and good governance (IMF, World Bank, ADB).

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07/08/2024

New-Borns Are Being Sold for Up to $4,500 in Kazakhstan; the Government Is Cracking Down on Traffickers

Human Wrongs Watch

By Kulpash Konyrova, in Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan tightens laws to combat trafficking of newborns

()* — Babies are being sold for up to $4,500 in Kazakhstan, but the government is cracking down on traffickers with a new law adopted earlier this month.

A woman checks on her newborn as a nurse monitors the baby's condition at a perinatal centre in Astana, Kazakhstan.

© Ministry of Health of Kazakhstan | A woman checks on her newborn as a nurse monitors the baby’s condition at a perinatal centre in Astana, Kazakhstan.
 
To fight against trafficking newborns, the new legislation facilitates the criminal prosecution for such crimes as kidnapping, illegal deprivation of liberty, human trafficking, involvement in prostitution and more.

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