It’s ironic that the 75th anniversary of two international instruments - the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and the UN Convention on Genocide - is being observed when the world is witnessing the killing spree on and forced displacement of Palestinians in Gaza via Israel’s military operation. This is the worst attack on Palestinians since the one that took place during the creation of the Jewish state, which Palestinians call Nakba (or, catastrophe). The creation of Israel resulted in the expulsion of at least 750,000 Palestinians from their homes and 78 percent of historic Palestine being overtaken. The remaining 22 percent was divided into what are now the occupied West Bank and the besieged Gaza Strip. After 75 years, it’s been feared that now, three times more Palestinians will be driven out from Gaza. The human rights declaration was approved by the UN general assembly on December 10, 1948, a day after the first human rights treaty, the Genocide Convention(the first h...

Years of campaigning and legal challenges have finally given some hope to thousands of international students, including Bangladeshis, subjected to historical injustices since 2014 over a wrongful allegation of cheating in English tests. The language test was conducted by a non-profit organisation Educational Testing Services (ETS). A first tier Appeal Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) in its verdict issued on June 18 concluded that ‘the generic evidence is not reliable because a number of students have been identified by ETS as having cheated but who did not in fact cheat.’ A UK-based rights group, Migrant Voice which has been supporting the victims of this injustice, has now signed a partnership with the law firm Bindmans LLP to launch a group compensation scheme against the Home Office. Due to the huge number of the victims, it has been likened by many something similar to Windrush scandal. In 2014, acting on a BBC investigation that unmasked some colleges in England faci...