The Blood Of Our Children: The Cruel Reality Of Child Safety In Today's Bangladesh

One Oprotim, one Ramisa, or one Asiya alone cannot capture the horrifying reality of child killings in Bangladesh. Under the new BNP government, Bangladesh’s children are not safe anywhere.  Not in classrooms.  Not in madrasas.  Not on playgrounds.  Not even inside their own homes.  Since this administration ...

A Child’s Body in the Jungle, and a Nation That Barely Notices

The gruesome murder of 13-year-old Ishiat Shahriar Oprotimo exposes an unprecedented breakdown of security, where no child, citizen, or household is safe. Thirteen-year-old Ishiat Shahriar Oprotimo left home on a Friday afternoon in Cumilla with his mother’s iPhone, saying he wanted to take photographs with friends. Roughly twenty-four ho...