Perspectivas / Perspectives

The government talks of banning Jamaat and the opposition is becoming more aggressively Islamist 

 Mar. 23.─ In 1961 Israel kidnapped Adolf Eichmann from Argentina and put him on trial for crimes committed 20 years earlier. Eichmann had been secretary at the Nazis' Wannsee conference that led to the Holocaust. His trial in Jerusalem was a model of meticulous process. The prosecutor was Israel's attorney-general; the defence lawyer, a leading German attorney; the proceedings were broadcast. They were everything the Holocaust was not: open, subject to evidence and challenge, and legal.

Now consider the trials under way at the International Crimes Tribunal in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. There too, men are being tried for dreadful crimes committed many years ago, in this case in 1971, during Bangladesh's war of independence from Pakistan. The defendants have been accused of genocide, mass murder, mass rape and attempting to exterminate whole groups of people. But their trials have fallen a long way short of Israel's model of due process.

 Tegucigalpa, Mar. 11.─ Son menores de edad, pero la desintegración familiar, la pobreza y la inseguridad que no parece mermar en sus comunidades de origen, los obliga a tomar decisiones de adultos, los empuja a emigrar. En la mayoría de los casos son presa fácil de la explotación sexual y laboral, muchos de ellos desaparecen y otros tantos terminan sin vida. Ellos son los niños migrantes de Honduras.

Ante la falta de oportunidades económicas en los países centroamericanos y en México, decenas de hombres comenzaron a emigrar desde hace varias décadas hacia Estados Unidos.

Watch HERE some of the participants speak of the greatest challenges to eliminate violence against women and girls, and how to overcome them 

 United Nations, March 7.─ Despite shrinking budgets and often-conservative political agendas, Governments throughout the world were making significant strides in expanding multisectoral approaches to eliminate violence against women, characterized by a range of integrated services to prevent abuse and support survivors, speakers said today as the Commission on the Status of Women continued its general debate.

Those efforts, many delegates said, included improvements to legislation and police procedure, better mental health care, the creation of shelters — staffed by a diverse set of experts — 24-hour hotlines, and importantly, stronger punishment for perpetrators. Given the magnitude of the problem, collaboration across sectors was vital for maximizing expertise and resources. It also was critical to involve, throughout the process, civil society actors working at the frontlines, especially to tackle domestic abuse.

• Autoridades ha detenido a unos cien sospechosos de participar en los disturbios; las familias de la zona han huido, después de recibir aviso por la policía de un posible ataque
• Manifestantes arrojan ladrillos a hogares de familias cristianas durante la agresión en un vecindario cristiano (Foto)
• Una pareja cristiana del vecindario dijo que el viernes se habían ido a la casa de unos vecinos musulmanes que les dieron refugio la noche después que la multitud vino a buscar al cristiano acusado de blasfemia
• Las acusaciones de blasfemia en Pakistán pueden propiciar que multitudes se hagan justicia por su propia mano 

Islamabad, Mar. 10 (EFE): Una turba quemó un centenar de casas de cristianos en unos disturbios originados por un supuesto caso de blasfemia contra Mahoma en la ciudad de Lahore, en el noreste de Pakistán, informó hoy a Efe una fuente policial.

Los altercados comenzaron el viernes al mediodía y se agravaron ayer con la quema de las casas de cristianos en la zona de Badami Bagh, según la Policía, y hasta 175 de acuerdo con medios locales.