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JULY UPRISING ABUSES: UN rights chief calls for justice

Presenting the fact-finding report in Geneva in Switzerland on human rights violations and abuses related to the protests of the July-August student-led mass uprising in Bangladesh, United Nations’ high commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, on Wednesday said that accountability was absolutely the key...

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TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION IN SRILANKA: Nawaz Commission provides guideline

THE United Nations Human Rights Council sessions in Geneva have regularly been a focal point of controversy for Sri Lanka. Since 2009, the year the thirty-year internal war ended, the country has been the subject of multiple resolutions aimed at addressing human rights violations and war crimes committed during and after the war. These resolutions have been met...

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30 Red Cross staff killed in 2024

Dozens of Red Cross staff and volunteers gathered Wednesday for a candlelight vigil for more than 30 of their colleagues killed in 2024, during the deadliest year on record for humanitarians...

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Labour counsellor in Geneva called back over harassment of Asif Nazrul

The government has ordered Mohammed Kamrul Islam, counsellor (labour wing) at the Bangladesh Mission in Geneva, to return home and dismissed a local staff member from the mission following the harassment faced by law, justice and parliamentary affairs adviser Asif Nazrul in Geneva...

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Teenage victim of Geneva Camp gunfight dies at DMCH

A teenager, who sustained bullet injury in a gunfight between two drug peddler groups in the Urdu-speaking people camp in the capital’s Mohammadpur area on Saturday evening, died while undergoing treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Monday morning...

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WTO public forum begins today

The largest outreach event of the World Trade Organisation will start today at the multilateral trade organisation’s secretariat in the Swiss city of Geneva...

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Man shot dead in dispute over dominance

A man was shot to death in a firing in a dispute between two groups allegedly over spreading dominance in front of the Mohammadpur Geneva camp in Dhaka city on Wednesday...

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