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Women must be at ‘centre of peacekeeping decision-making’

Women’s rights, voices and participation must be at “the centre of peacekeeping decision-making”, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council on Thursday, describing them as “central to sustainable solutions” to challenges facing the Organization worldwide.

Photo: MINUSCA/Hervé Serefio

Islam and the Evolution of National Identity Formation in Bangladesh

Islam was legitimized on a political basis because large quantities of foreign aid flowed into the country from the Gulf as well as international Islamic organizations, indicating that the rising prevalence of and respect for the religion could not have been on ideological grounds alone, but due to Islamist groups spurring economic development in the country

Photo: NurPhoto/SIPA USA/PA Images.