Situation update
Situation update
Situation Update on COVID-19, 17 October, 2020
Situation update
Situation Update on COVID-19, 16 October, 2020
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Rape and impunity (not only) in Bangladesh
Last month in Bangladesh, a video showing the gang rape of a 37-year old woman went viral on Facebook. Eight men implicated in the crime were…
Situation update
Situation Update on COVID-19, 15 October, 2020
Analysis
Americans do not need more debates to decide their votes
With a canceled second debate due to the coronavirus infection of the president, Donald Trump and Joe Biden have different plans this week. I take no…
Analysis
It’s a pandemic: Go after the virus, not the vulnerable
To achieve herd immunity for Sars-CoV-2, it is estimated that at least 60 to 70% of the global population – over five billion people – would…
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Bangladesh wins and loses in China-India rivalry
Beijing and New Delhi are hotly competing for influence in Bangladesh but Dhaka has good cause to be suspicious of both Bangladesh is in the middle…
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Excluded at the ballot box: what stops people voting around the world and how to fix it
As the US election campaign nears its end point, one thing about the result is certain: a lot of people won’t vote. Turnout at the 2016…
Situation update
Situation Update on COVID-19, 14 October, 2020
Analysis
Coronavirus: Is the cure worse than the disease? The most divisive question of 2020
In 1968, at the height of the last great influenza pandemic, at least a million people worldwide died, including 100,000 Americans. That year A.M.M. Payne, a…
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