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Under threat of jail, microfinance pioneer vows to keep lending to poorest Bangladeshis
The Nobel peace laureate and microfinance pioneer Muhammad Yunus has said that years of fighting what he calls “dirty” politically motivated attacks on his work to alleviate poverty in Bangladesh have made life “totally miserable”.
Yunus told the Guardian he had come under 20 years of pressure from the Bangladeshi government for his work, which is credited with improving the lives of millions of poor people, particularly women.
India: Why Hindu nationalism and Zionism are ideological cousins
The results are in for India’s general election. The country’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, has won enough seats to stay in charge for a third consecutive term. But his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has suffered big setbacks, and is gearing up for coalition talks having failed to win an outright majority for the first time in ten years.
Historic Sikh Court in the UK Sparks Concerns Over Women’s Rights
The Secularist condemns the announcement of the world’s first Sikh ‘Court’ in London in April 2024. Please note that Secular legal systems provide impartial...
