Monthly Archives: August 2018

Arts Festival against racism held in Bonn

Bonn, 27 August: Diaspora and development organisation BASUG and Seraji Foundation organised the first Art and Literature Festival against Racism and Discrimination in Bonn on 25 August. Documentary film, discussion, art exhibition, songs, poetry and short stories were the main festival attractions held in the MIGRApolis hall in Bonn, Germany. ead of the Integration Department of Bonn City Corporation Coletta Manemann inaugurated the festival as

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In US Senator McCain’s passing, Bangladesh’s Bridget loses her father

McCain, who ran unsuccessfully for president as a self-styled maverick Republican in 2008, and his wife, Cindy, adopted Bridget during Cindy’s 1993 humanitarian trip to Bangladesh. McCain died at the age of 81 at his home in Arizona on Saturday after a long battle with cancer. He was a naval bomber pilot, prisoner of war, conservative maverick, giant of the Senate, twice-defeated presidential candidate. In many interviews, Cindy McCain has described

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GFMD DIALOGUE ON THE GCM AT UN GENEVA ON 4 SEPT 2018

Press Release: 20 Aug 2018 The GFMD (Global Forum on Migration and Development) 2017-2018 Co-Chairs, Germany and Morocco, are convening a GFMD Dialogue on GCM Implementation on Tuesday, 4 September 2018 from 10h00 to 18h00 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. This dialogue follows a series of initiatives that began since Germany and Morocco assumed the GFMD Co-Chairmanship in 2017. It may be mention that Bangladesh was chair of 2016

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