bangladesh: election abuses need independent probe

mass arrests of the opposition, and crackdown on speech, the election commission announced that Awami League won December 30, 2018 election, returning Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to third consecutive term, with the ruling party winning 288 of the parliamentary seats contested. ... Reports of..

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merger of parliamentary committees further sidelines iraqi women

Manal Muslimawi, member of the Committee on Health and Environment, told Al-Monitor,  . The House of Representatives not only merged the committee on human rights and the committee on women, family and childhood, except it also abstained from voting for the female candidates..

2018

The bill, known as First Step Act, is the culmination of years of work by the likes of Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley and Sen. ..

making sense of election mechanics and their outcome

The commission was also empowered to regulate election expenses and ensure that women and members of minority communities were enrolled as voters and represented as candidates.. They did not understand why the results were being delayed in the presence of sophisticated electronic system put in..

2012

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held yesterday on driving under the influence of marijuana, Planes, Trains and Automobiles Operating While Stoned, ation about stoned driving and little basis for setting legal limit for marijuana impairment.. The committee is..

dr kc threatens to launch 16th fast-unto-death

Senior Orthopaedic Surgeon Dr Govinda KC has expressed dissatisfaction with National Medical Education Bill endorsed by sub-committee of Parliamentary Education and Health Committee yesterday saying that the draft bill does not accommodate all his demands. ... The draft endorsed by the..

prospects for yemen in 2019 and beyond

To what extent either party is able to persuade UN monitors that their implementation of the agreement is genuine will largely depend on two factors first the monitors actual detailed knowledge of the situation on the ground and, second, the capacity of the members of the committee and other..

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