Rights organisations yesterday expressed deep outrage and concern over the rape and murder of eight-year-old schoolgirl Ramisa Akter in the capital's Pallabi on May 19, saying it again exposed serious weaknesses in the country's child protection system. They demanded immediate, impartial and proper investigations into Ramisa's murder and other recent incidents of child rape and murder. They also called for exemplary punishment of the perpetrators after proper identification. Google News (…)

As the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement grows, its co-founder, Omar Barghouti, has become a target for Israeli demonization. +972's Rami Younis sits down with Barghouti for a rare discussion about BDS's goals, its recent successes, and increasingly frequent accusations that the boycott movement constitutes anti-Semitism. Omar Barghouti is one of the most infamous names in pro-Israel and Israeli government circles at the moment. Officials have portrayed this Palestinian human (…)

After the Irish author declined an Israeli deal for a recent novel, we saw a chance to help strengthen the boycott movement — and clarify its aims. It was five years ago that the bestselling Irish author Sally Rooney first declared her support for the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement. At the time, Rooney had already published Hebrew translations of two of her novels with the Israeli publishing house Modan, but refused to translate a third. A wave of reports (…)