Category: Commentary
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International Workers’ Day: Recognize Women Farmers
On International Workers’ Day, it is important to ask what it means to speak of “workers” in a context where some forms of labor are systematically denied recognition. In Bangladesh, women in agriculture are not outside the labor movement; they are at its core, but the structures that organize labor, policy, and rights continue to…
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Queer Asylum and Manufactured Doubt: The Politics Behind the BBC Investigation
In April 2026, a BBC News investigation reported that UK-based legal advisers are allegedly coaching migrants, many from Bangladesh and Pakistan, to fabricate LGBTQ+ asylum claims. Based on undercover reporting, the article describes how applicants are guided to construct false narratives, stage photographs, obtain medical documentation, and secure letters claiming same-sex relationships, often for fees…
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Child Marriage Is Not Tradition, It Is State Enabled Violence
Child marriage in Bangladesh continues to be framed as a “social problem,” but this language hides what it truly is: a systematic form of gendered violence sustained by law, economy, and silence. When families marry off girls under pressure, it is not simply “culture” at work, it is a structure that normalizes the disposal of…