{"id":54981,"date":"2023-05-09T22:00:11","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T13:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/may\/09\/we-have-a-right-to-live-in-dignity-biharis-in-bangladesh-fight-for-equality-and-jobs"},"modified":"2023-05-09T22:00:11","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T13:00:11","slug":"we-have-a-right-to-live-in-dignity-biharis-in-bangladesh-fight-for-equality-and-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54981","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We have a right to live in dignity\u2019: Biharis in Bangladesh fight for equality \u2013 and jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Urdu-speaking ethnic group was stateless for many years after the partition of India \u2013 and even now remain marginalised, living in cramped settlement camps and struggling to find formal work<\/p>\n<p>On his first day at high school, Khalid Hussain was accused of being the son of a war criminal. \u201cA group of Bengali kids surrounded us and made it clear that we were not welcome. The incident still shocks me to this day,\u201d says Hussain, who was 12 at the time. \u201cBut we just wanted to learn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was not the last time Hussain, now a lawyer at the Council of Minorities, a human rights organisation he founded in 2013, experienced discrimination in his native Bangladesh.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/may\/09\/we-have-a-right-to-live-in-dignity-biharis-in-bangladesh-fight-for-equality-and-jobs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Urdu-speaking ethnic group was stateless for many years after the partition of India \u2013 and even now remain marginalised, living in cramped settlement camps and struggling to find formal workOn his first day at high school, Khalid Hussain was accuse&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3158,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[327,847,59,53,62,1353,491,640,60,494,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-employment","category-global-development","category-human-rights","category-india","category-inequality-and-development","category-migration","category-migration-and-development","category-pakistan","category-refugees","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54982,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54981\/revisions\/54982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}