Saudi Arabia’s Human Rights Commission (HRC) has introduced new regulations for domestic workers, local media reported yesterday. “HRC has introduced new related contractual, financial and health rights for the...

In the video, she details the horrific abuse she was subjected to as she begs to return to Bangladesh

Traumatised Bangladeshi women who return home after being tortured and abused working in the Middle East rarely get justice because brokers intimidate them and they cannot afford legal aid,...

Part one

The Turkiye Diyanet Foundation (TDV) distributed more than 453,000 portions of sacrificial meat to millions of needy families globally during Eid al-Adha, a major Muslim holiday, according to an...

A total of 3,771 irregular migrants were held across Turkey over the past week, according to data compiled by Anadolu Agency from security sources. As many as 1,643 irregular...

Myanmar is committing an act of genocide against Rohingya Muslims, Bangladesh’s ambassador to Turkey said Wednesday, Anadolu reports. M. Allama Siddiki was speaking at a seminar in Ankara titled...

Bangladesh has confirmed that a total of its 37 nationals drowned after a migrant boat, which was heading to Europe from Libya, capsized off the coast Tunisia, local media...

Iraqi police yesterday announced the liberation of 45 Bangladeshi workers who had been held in the centre of the country’s capital city of Baghdad. “A team from the Baghdad...

More than 100 Bangladeshi female workers abused or exploited in Saudi Arabia returned home this week, according to human rights activists, fuelling calls to stop sending Bangladeshi women to...

A Turkish-funded field hospital at the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh has treated nearly 100,000 refugees over the last seven months,

Former war crimes prosecutor David Crane, an American who was named only last month to lead a UN investigation into Israeli killings in Gaza this year, has resigned, the United...

Daesh’s self-made lethal drone programme was reportedly procured by two British Bangladeshi brothers, a new Combating Terrorism Centre (CTC) report revealed yesterday. Daesh’s access to drones was “shaped” by...

Expatriate workers who accept low wages and are willing to work long hours are exacerbating the Iraq’s unemployment problem, locals have said. Hussein Jassim, an Iraqi worker who left...

Eid babies are normally seen as a great blessing across the Muslim world and a perfect end to pregnancies after Ramadan. We shouldn’t, though, expect any celebrations over the...

The scandal was especially outrageous because it occurred in one of Cairo’s newest and most affluent neighbourhoods. Rainwater flooded Cairo’s Fifth Settlement neighbourhood four days ago, and we watched...

This is the second annual 3-day long international Sufi festival held in Bangladesh

Iranian lawmakers and academics have criticised the Iranian envoy after he failed to attend a United Nations General Assembly voting on a draft resolution on Monday which called on...

The international community must act swiftly on the Rohingya crisis or the world will create another Palestine. That was the stark warning issued by a delegation from the Middle...

Millions of children around the world will wake up on Christmas Day and rip open their presents and parcels with an enthusiasm that only a child can display. The...

Turkey will build a field hospital for Rohingya refugees near the city of Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh. Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) will be responsible for the...

“This village is a Muslim-free zone,” reads a sign hanging at the entrance to a village in an area of Myanmar outside Rakhine state. The orders are directed at...