Bangladesh

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Dr Kanchana Ruwanpura

Published: 6 Oct 2016

Dr Kanchana Ruwanpura is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography in the School of Geosciences. While a dual citizen (British-Sri Lanka), as a native of Sri Lanka, Dr. Ruwanpura’s primary focus of research has been on gender, ethnicity and conflict, post-disaster politics, and more recently labour politics, focussing on Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Her…

Dr Louise Harrington

Published: 6 Oct 2016

Dr. Louise Harrington trained in literary, film and cultural studies in Trinity College Dublin and the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. She is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Alberta in Canada, working on cultural responses to global partitions and ethno-religious conflict. She has conducted fieldwork in…

Siddharth Kara

Published: 6 Oct 2016

Siddharth Kara is one of the world’s foremost experts on human trafficking and contemporary slavery. He is the Director of the Program on Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, where he is also an Adjunct Lecturer and teaches the only course on human trafficking at HKS. In addition, Kara…

Peter J Bertocci

Published: 6 Oct 2016

I am retired professor of anthropology with some 4 years of research experience in Bangladesh between 1966 and 1999. My research interests focused for the most part on rural socio-economic and political organization, requiring me to live in peasant villages and small district headquarter towns for extended periods of time. During my last visit to…

Prof Dina M. Siddiqi (LGBTI)

Published: 6 Oct 2016

Description: Dina M. Siddiqi, Professor, Department of Economics and Social Sciences, BRAC University, has extensive work experience with leading human rights organizations in Bangladesh, including Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK), and Bangladesh Legal and Services Trust (BLAST). She has consulted for UNDP, UNICEF, and NORAD, among others, focusing primarily on programs related to gender justice…

Prof Chatterji Joya

Published: 6 Oct 2016

Chatterji Joya is the Director of the Institute for Modern South Asian History at the University of Cambridge. He is an expert on India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. His research topics are migrants, minorities and citizenship, South Asian history, Muslim migration, secularization, South Asian Diaspora, Refugee in west Bengal and the Bengali Muslims. He authored and…

Odhikar

Published: 6 Oct 2016

This NGO produces monthly Human Rights Reports on rights violations in Bangladesh.

Prof Katy Gardner

Published: 6 Oct 2016

Dr Katy Gardner trained in anthropology at Cambridge and the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her work has focussed on issues of globalisation, migration and economic change in Bangladesh and its transnational communities in the U.K. Her doctoral research, carried out in the 1980s, examined the transformations associated with overseas migration in a…

Mr Ashraful Azad

Published: 6 Oct 2016

Ashraful Azad is a lecturer of International Relations at the University of Chittagong. He is currently pursuing a postgraduate research degree at Monash University School of Law, Australia. Previously, he worked for the UNHCR in Bangladesh as a United Nations Volunteer. He has conducted research and published on Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. Mr Azad also…