{"id":38901,"date":"2016-08-13T01:10:06","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T00:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deinayurveda.net\/wordpress\/?p=38901"},"modified":"2016-08-13T01:25:20","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T00:25:20","slug":"bangladesh-sons-of-convicted-war-criminals-detained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.deinayurveda.net\/wordpress\/2016\/08\/bangladesh-sons-of-convicted-war-criminals-detained\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh: Sons of convicted war criminals detained"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bangladesh: Sons of convicted war criminals detained<\/strong><\/span> https:\/\/t.co\/rx32ZQejNQ<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014 Toby Cadman (@tobycadman)<\/strong> 12. August 2016<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Every minute 24 people are forced to flee their homes because of war or persecution. Please stand #WithRefugees<\/span><\/a> <\/strong><\/span>pic.twitter.com\/b2heJGQUek<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014 UN Refugee Agency (@Refugees) 12. August 2016<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

#Bahraini<\/span><\/a> women should not need a guardian to leave the country and travel abroad under any circumstances?<\/strong><\/span>#Bahrain<\/span><\/a> pic.twitter.com\/umjtfpI5D5<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014 Maytham Al Salman (@MaythamAlsalman) 12. August 2016<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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#HumanRights<\/span><\/a> and #ReligiousTolerance<\/span><\/a> defender @MaythamAlsalman<\/span><\/a> to be interrogated in Bahrain Sunday<\/strong><\/span> @BeritHagenAgoy<\/span><\/a> @Lindacath<\/span><\/a> @borgebrende<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014 Iver \u00d8rstavik (@iverorstavik) 12. August 2016<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Uganda to close the largest chain of commercial private schools over non-respect of basic education standards<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n

… Bridge International Academies is a for-profit commercial chain of low-cost private schools backed up by investors such as Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook) and Pierre Omidyar (eBay), as well as the World Bank, and the US and British Governments.<\/span> It aims at providing education to 10 million pupils by 2025 and already runs over 450 schools in Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria and soon Liberia and India. The company has been particularly criticised for using a non-transparent system of entirely scripted and standardised curriculum mostly designed in the USA, delivered by untrained teachers reading the script from a tablet, while selling this scheme as \u201cworld-class education\u201d to poor people in developing countries in a bid to seek profits.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The decision to close BIA schools follows several statements from United Nations (UN) human rights bodies as well as a report from a UK parliament watchdog that criticised BIA, suggesting that the development of these schools may lead to human rights breaches.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Ugandan education system suffers from many shortcomings. However, it does not mean that any investors can come in and make profit out of the situation by delivering low-quality education while disregarding national authorities and standards. International treaties and a recent resolution from the UN Human Rights Council make clear that it is the duty of the government to close schools that are sub-standard or that lead to commercialisation of education, and we applaud the Government for upholding its obligations,\u201d said Frederick Mwesigye, Executive Director of the Forum for Education NGOS in Uganda (FENU).<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u2014 Bretton Woods Proj. (@brettonwoodspr) 12. August 2016<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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More shocking details of #Australia<\/span><\/a>’s abuse of asylum seekers on #Nauru<\/span><\/a> from teachers working with kids in detention <\/strong><\/span>h<\/strong><\/span>ttps:\/\/t.co\/aqwX2xoGY5<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014 MSF Sea (@MSF_Sea) 12. August 2016<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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