Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Bangladeshi students rise up in revolt, but a wider movement against the government looks unlikely

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par Shahzad Uddin, Professor of Accounting, University of Essex

Thousands of students in Bangladesh have taken to the streets over the past few weeks to demand an overhaul of how public sector jobs are distributed. The government had sought to reintroduce quotas that reserve 30% of these jobs for descendants of veterans from Bangladesh’s war of independence with Pakistan in 1971. The quotas, which had initially been scrapped in…

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