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Branding Bangladesh: India’s Neighbor Is Becoming A Major Startup Hub

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*This post of mine was also published on Huffington Post.* Poverty, natural disasters, and cheap labor may be what you would normally associate with Bangladesh, but India’s neighbor could be Asia’s next major startup hub. “Bangladesh is becoming a land of opportunity,” says Samad Miraly, a Canadian-Bangladeshi angel investor based in Dhaka. “It’s a place […]

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Savita’s Sacrifice: Indian Woman’s Death Puts Ireland & Abortion in the Spotlight

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Wrapping up another great week at Al-Jazeera and it never ceases to amaze me how much I learn from each show we do. From Kuwait’s demand for democracy to young scientists changing the world to Argentina’s message war to the use of social media in the Israel-Palestinian crisis to medicating poverty,  each time I co-anchor the Stream, I

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Ms. Magazine Turns 40 at the Washington Press Club

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It was a huge honor, and so much fun, to celebrate the first United Nations International Day of the Girl Child at Ms. Magazine’s 40th Anniversary Luncheon at the Washington Press Club in downtown DC. Sandwiched between my feminist icons, Eleanor Smeal and Gloria Steinem, I had to express my honor and disbelief at this

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Anchorwoman at Al-Jazeera: Anushay’s Point Goes Live

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Anushay’s Point got the amazing opportunity to go live on Al-Jazeera’s The Stream, the network’s social media driven show. You may have caught me on air over the past month, talking about everything from e-Patriarchy to Islamaphobia to Canadian mining companies in Latin America to India’s caste-system. I’m trying to do a good job of

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Obama to Insurance Companies: Being a Woman is Not a Preexisting Condition

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Big victory for American women today as the Affordable Care Act (ACA) goes into effect. Many of you might be wondering what exactly I am talking about, what the big deal is, or how this effects you. Starting today, millions of women across the United States will be able to access a wide range of reproductive health services.

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Women’s Rights Key To Effective Global AIDS Response

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A new report by the Global Commission on HIV and the Law, an independent body of former world leaders and top legal, human rights and HIV experts, released on the eve of the London Summit on Family Planning, has labeled the global response to the AIDS epidemic as “stifled.” The ground-breaking account, “HIV and the Law: Risks,

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The War Heroine Speaks: A Special Series on Women And Bangladesh’s Independence War

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This past May, an interview with an Australian doctor, who performed late-term abortions on Bangladeshi rape victims from the 1971 War of Independence, came to my attention. The more I read and the more I researched online, I found countless testimonies and even some old news footage, providing evidence to what Bangladeshis already know, but

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