Bangladesh Elections and What they Mean
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English - January 05, 2009 17:00 - 1 hour - 27.2 MB - ★★★★ - 5 ratingsNews news saja india samma mumbai pakistan terrorist attacks aseem chhabra books south asia Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
A distinguished panel of experts and journalists will analyze the results of the Dec. 29 Bangladesh elections and what they mean for Bangladesh, the region and Bangladesh-US relations.
Speakers include:
* Syeed Ahamed, senior research associate, Center for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh
* Steve Herman, South Asia bureau chief, VOA, who covered the elections
* Sara Hossain, a lawyer in the Supreme Court of Bangladesh, practicing in the areas of public interest and human rights law. she is on the board of ASK, a national human rights organisation
* Prof. Ali Riaz, chair in the Department of Government & Politics at Illinois State University
* Asif Saleh recently retired from his post as vice president at Goldman Sachs in London to be the full-time executive director of Drishtipat, a Bangladesh human rights organization he founded in 2001
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