The United Nations has urged the Bangladesh government to protect the protesting students demanding quota reforms in the government jobs against any form of threat or violence.
St茅phane Dujarric, spokesman for the secretary-general, at Tuesday鈥檚 noon briefing in New York said that the UN was very much aware of the situation, which they were following closely and with concern.
鈥業 think whether it is in Bangladesh or anywhere else in the world, people have a right to demonstrate peacefully, and we call on the Government of Bangladesh to protect the demonstrators against any form of threat or violence, especially those who may be in protesting peacefully who may need extra protection, such as young people or children or people with disabilities,鈥� said St茅phane Dujarric.
He also mentioned that it was a fundamental human right to be able to demonstrate peacefully and governments should protect those rights.