Maher Sattar

Labor and human rights groups in India are bringing a Fair Food Program-style model to the sugar industry, hoping to push big brands to sign binding legal agreements to protect workers and adopt humane standards. ciw-online.org/blog/2025/03/f…

@JackofBlades22 @muktadirnewage @mahersattar (Sigh) The ulterior motive is a thousand year old one: patriarchy. Read this, it’s free, it’s brilliant and it’s precisely about patriarchy and how Bangladeshi women have been fighting it press.lse.ac.uk/site/books/m/1…

Not forgotten - deliberately sidelined. Great piece on the role of Women in the Bangladesh Monsoon uprising from @muktadirnewage and @mahersattar

Bangladesh’s Revolutionary Women Have Disappeared My joint byline with my mentor ⁦@mahersattar⁩ foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/16/ban…

Gen Z women in Bangladesh turned the tide in successfully ousting the country’s iron-fisted leader. Then, they were sidelined from public and political participation. Read @FullerProject’s @mahersattar and @muktadirnewage’s latest with @ForeignPolicy. bit.ly/40AZq1m

The @ndtv piece claims Transparency International Bangladesh found over 2,000 cases of minorities being targeted since Hasina’s government fell. Curious, I asked TIB’s executive director Iftekharuzzaman, who said, “No idea where they got this figure from.”ndtv.com/opinion/bangla…

There are indeed human rights concerns in Bangladesh, some of them quite serious, but this highly inaccurate and misleading APPG report is a disgrace, failing to provide any proper context and seriously exaggerating the problems. It is quite extraordinary for a UK parliamentary report - that has never written any report on Bangladesh before - to expose itself as so strongly biased towards the point of view of a foreign political party, the Awami League, whose law enforcement authorities, just a few months ago conducted a "massacre" of hundreds of civilians. The chairs of the Commonwealth APPG - @AndrewRosindell, @SyedKamall, @BaronessUddin, @AJogee1 - should retract this report immediately and significantly re-write it. 6/

Long-overdue but a welcome development for the victims of horrifying atrocities.

Take a behind-the-scenes look at our latest investigation on India's sugar farms, the systemic abuses within the industry, and the relationship between sugar and politics. More in this week's newsletter from @mahersattar: bit.ly/4hg82AO

Our latest @FullerProject investigation with @nytimes: In many cases, the people who could do something for women in debt bondage in Mahrashtra's sugar farms are the very people who benefit from their exploitation nytimes.com/2024/10/11/wor…

1/🧵 Kazi Anis Ahmed, a liberal Bangladeshi media tycoon, covertly financed a far-right lobbying campaign in Washington via a Dubai firm. Aligning with Sheikh Hasina’s now-deposed regime, he risked violating laws. Here’s how it unraveled: netra.news/2024/kazi-anis…

This story is developing quickly. I have just spoken to AFP's fact checker Qadaruddin Shishir, who has confirmed that the video was (a) first posted on social media at least six years ago in 2018; (b) that in 2019, the Daily Mail along with other media, showing screen shots from the video, attributed responsibility for the crime to members of the Primer Comando da Capital, a Brazil-based criminal organisation, who were dismembering an associate of another group in a Paraguayan jail cell. Therefore the crime was not committed "yesterday" as @ArifaRahmanRuma claims. It also never occurred in #Bangladesh at all, so Jamaat-e-Islami (as she also claimed) could not have been responsible. So just to be absolutely clear. Jamaat-e-Islami is totally exonerated from any involvement in the crimes depicted in this video. It is now clear that the posting of this video is a perfect example of disinformation being spread by certain supporters of the Awami League. I think @ArifaRahmanRuma has totally discredited herself in relation to all her comments on Bangladesh. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7…

Those interested in #Bangladesh kleptocracy under the Awami League government - with a UK (and apparently also Signapore, Malaysian Dubai, and US) angle, this looks like something definitely to watch. Cant wait! (Made by @AJIunit, who also made All the Prime Ministers Men)

#Horrific A shocking incident has emerged from Katni GRP police station in Madhya Pradesh, where a Dalit mother and her minor son were brutally beaten up by police officials inside the police station itself. Manuwadi media remains silent as usual... #DalitLivesMatter

Alpa Shah, in 'The Incarcerations: Bhima Koregaon and the Search For Democracy in India,' finds hope in the fact that “it was impossible to kill the spirit of these custodians of democracy,” despite the force of state-sanctioned suppression. caravanmagazine.in/politics/bhima…

Since a bunch of folks are talking about the unrealized capital gains tax, some nuance: axios.com/newsletters/ax…

The BBC has pieced together evidence of a civilian massacre in Myanmar. Scores of Rohingyas killed. Survivors blame insurgent Arakan Army, the group denies it.Thousands have fled to Bangladesh in the past 2 weeks. These are some of their harrowing stories. bbc.com/news/articles/…

“Rohingya National League Denounces Arakan Army's Systematic Eradication Plan of Rohingya Community” On behalf of The Rohingya National League, we express our deep concern and outrage over the alarming reports of a systematic plan by the Arakan Army (AA) to completely eradicate the Rohingya community. According to credible sources from Buthidaung Township, the Arakan Army has meticulously organized a campaign to expel the Rohingya people from Buthidaung and Maungdaw townships. The disturbing reports indicate that the AA is targeting village after village, committing atrocities that include the killing of Rohingya villagers, followed by the looting and burning of their homes. As part of their heinous plan, the Arakan Army is extorting money from Rohingya families for basic actions such as moving from one village to another. The extortion extends to those attempting the perilous journey to Malaysia, where the AA demands 1 million kyats per person. Additionally, every villager is forced to pay a monthly tax under threat of violence. The Arakan Army is also forcibly recruiting villagers, often taking males from each family to serve as human shields on the battlefield. As a result, hundreds of male members of the Rohingya community have been either arrested by the AA or have fled the country to avoid conscription. The AA has now imposed severe restrictions on the movement of Rohingya villagers, effectively cutting off their access to safety and livelihood. This calculated strategy appears to be designed to force the Rohingya community out of the region by eliminating male members who might share their plight with the international community. Following this, the female members are left vulnerable, facing either death or the perilous journey to Bangladesh or Malaysia. We urgently call upon the international community, human rights organizations, and all relevant authorities to take immediate action to prevent this ongoing genocide. The Rohingya community cannot be abandoned in this time of desperate need. The world must act now to hold the perpetrators accountable and ensure the protection of the Rohingya people. @StatePRM @StateDeptSpox @StateDeputySpox @CounselorDOS #UN #EU #OIC #ASEAN #amnestyinternational #humanrightswatch #unsecretarygeneral #saverohingya