Month: October 2018

Saturday, October 13, 2018 Dhaka, Bangladesh – Heading into Bangladesh’s elections for the Jatiya Sangsad (national parliament), a pre-election delegation of the National Democratic Institute (NDI) found that, while Bangladesh has several fundamental elements in place for holding credible elections, including a tradition…

Read More NDI: Commitments for Credible Elections Needed to Reaffirm Bangladesh’s Democracy

Asia Bibi’s case illustrates how blasphemy laws are used to persecute the weakest of the weak among the country's religious minorities. After a long and tortured eight years, Asia Noreen Bibi — a poor agricultural worker, who has been sitting…

Read More Why Pakistanis must speak up against blasphemy laws By Farahnaz Ispahani