Governments aren’t hearing the calls for aid

The Jubilee 2000 debt relief campaign, inspired by the Catholic church, succeeded in getting billions of dollars of developing-country sovereign debt written off 25 years ago. But in 2025, governments aren’t really listening to pleas for development assistance © FINANCIAL TIMES For a second week running I’m going to avoid talking about Donald Trump as…

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Bangladesh probe into Hasina-era abuses warns ‘impunity’ remains

DHAKA: A Bangladesh government-appointed commission investigating hundreds of disappearances by the security forces under ousted premier Sheikh Hasina on Monday warned that the same “culture of impunity” continues. The Commission of Inquiry into Enforced Disappearances is probing abuses during the rule of Hasina, whose government was accused of widespread human rights abuses. That includes the…

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