WHEN the chief advisor professor Muhammad Yunus extended an official invitation to the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to conduct an independent fact-finding into human rights violations committed during the July mass uprising, it was highly commended by rights organisations and civil society alike, except for those sections of...
The Bangladesh interim government has welcomed the fact-finding report of the UN human rights office on the July-August protests.
The police reform commission in its report recommended giving all power to the National Human Rights Commission to investigate human rights violations by members of law enforcement agencies...
The electoral reform commission has proposed that the Election Commission hold a re-election if 40 per cent of the votes in a constituency is not cast...
The number of human rights violation incidents in the Chittagong Hill Tracts鈥攃omprising Rangamati, Khagrachhari, and Bandarban districts鈥攄ropped to 200 in 2024 from 240 in the previous year, according to a report by the Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti...
The United States unveiled trade restrictions Tuesday on eight companies, including two Chinese firms and several from Russia, alleging human rights violations...
Marking the International Human Rights Day on Tuesday, oppression victims, their families, political and student leaders renewed the call for ensuring punishment for Sheikh Hasina and her accomplices for gross human rights violations during Awami League鈥檚 misrule of over 15 years...
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party recommended the abolition of the Rapid Action Battalion, citing allegations of human rights violations and extrajudicial killings...
VIOLENCE against women and girls has been found to be the deadliest, most prevalent, and most pervasive human rights violation in every community across the world, be it rich or poor, literate or illiterate, developed or undeveloped, resulting in the sad demise of a woman every 10 minutes globally. Such omnipresence of violence poses operational challenges for designing protocols and interventions...
VICTIMS of gross human rights violation in the hands of the law enforcement agencies who were denied justice during the Awami League regime are now coming forward to seek legal redress. This is a first step towards police reforms. Limon Hossain, a victim of attempted extrajudicial killing, lodged a complaint with the International Crime Tribunal against...
The United Nations has reiterated its call for accountability for the recent violence, loss of life and human rights violations in Bangladesh...
WHILE many are earnestly pointing at the devastation of war, the rampant human rights violations and the deliberate relegation of international and humanitarian law, there are those who see war from an entirely different perspective: profits...