Dhaka, Aug.31.– Academics, researchers, and activists on Saturday said that institutional and legal reforms in the post-uprising era would not sustain unless the political parties institutionalise participatory democracy with youth engagement.
They made the remarks while addressing the Bengal Delta Conference 2025 organised by a Dhaka-based think tank, Dacca Institute of Research and Analytics, at a hotel in the capital.
Dhaka, Aug.22.– Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today attributed the mass upsurges in different parts of the world to a lack of participatory democracy and justice, saying that without true democracy, social stability and peace cannot be durable, reports BSS.
"Absence of democracy and social justice can be linked to sustenance of poverty, inequality, deprivation, and marginalization, which in turn instigates extremism and terrorism," she said.
| Speaking to reporters on Aug. 20, after returning from Washington, and referring to the security guarantees that a large number of countries, including China, gave to Ukraine in exchange for giving up its nuclear arsenal and disarming itself of all heavy military equipment, Zelensky said: "...we do not need guarantors who do not help Ukraine and did not help Ukraine at a time when we really needed it after February 24, [2022].” |
Kyiv, Aug.21.– Ukraine and its European allies have been buoyed by Donald Trump's promise of security guarantees for Kyiv to help end the war in Ukraine, but face many unanswered questions, including how willing Russia will be to play ball.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy hailed Monday's extraordinary summit at the White House with the US president as a "major step forward" towards ending Europe's deadliest conflict in 80 years and towards setting up a trilateral meeting with Russia's Vladimir Putin and Trump in the coming weeks.
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