UN human rights team arrives in Dhaka
A team of the United Nations on Thursday arrived in Dhaka on an eight-day visit to discuss the process for investigating human rights violations in light of the...
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UN reiterates call for accountability for killings during uprising in Bangladesh
The United Nations has reiterated its call for accountability for the recent violence, loss of life and human rights violations in Bangladesh...
819 killed from July 16 to Aug 18 in Bangladesh, says HRSS
The Human Rights Support Society, a non-government human rights organisation, said in a report that at least 819 people were killed during student protests and its aftermath across the country between July 16 and August 18...
But not for you, Palestinian
I HAVE a very intense relationship with water.聽 As a result of a long-term health condition, I am often feeling very thirsty and drained. I cannot go more than perhaps 15 minutes without having a sup of water until I start to feel uncomfortable. On average people in the UK use 149 litres of water per-day, and although there is poverty in this country...
UN warns of 鈥榰nacceptable鈥� level of violence against aid workers
The United Nations on Monday condemned 鈥榰nacceptable鈥� levels of violence that are now commonplace against humanitarian workers after a record 280 were killed worldwide in 2023...
Israeli strikes on Yemen port 鈥榩ossible war crime鈥�: HRW
An Israeli air raid last month on a key Yemeni rebel-held port was a 鈥榩ossible war crime鈥� that has threatened food and aid supply for millions, Human Rights Watch said...
Israel slaughters Palestinians with western arms
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...
United Nations condemns violence against aid workers
The United Nations on Monday condemned the 鈥榰nacceptable鈥� level of violence becoming commonplace against humanitarian workers, a record 280 of whom were killed worldwide in 2023...
IHRC urges interim govt to take steps for freeing 57 captive Bangladeshis in UAE
International Human Rights Commission鈥檚 Bangladesh chapter has urged the interim government to take urgent effective steps to free 57 Bangladeshis who were sentenced in the United Arab Emirates....
ICT begins probe against Bangladesh's ousted PM Hasina, others in genocide case
The investigation agency of the International Crimes Tribunal on Thursday started a probe into mass killing allegations against the deposed prime minister and Awami League president...
Probe into violence against children demanded
Human rights activists and researchers at a discussion on Wednesday called on the interim government to hold probe into incidents of killing, injury and detention of children during the street protests since the middle of July for reform of the quota system in government jobs...
Ensuring human rights, freedom of speech prime goal, says Yunus
Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Tuesday said that the prime goal of the interim government was ensuring human rights and freedom of speech for all the citizens in Bangladesh....
Mayer Daak forms human chain, places three demands聽聽聽
Mayer Daak, a platform of enforced disappearance and extrajudicial killing victims鈥� family members, on Sunday demanded that the members of security forces involved in enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings be brought under speedy trials.
Ensuring rights in new Bangladesh
IN BANGLADESH, if there is anything the last 15 years under an increasingly repressive, corrupt and divisive regime have highlighted, it is the importance of human rights and what happens when a nation that is not at war or under occupation is persistently deprived of civil, political, social, economic and cultural rights....
Int鈥檒 financial institutions鈥� culpability
THE International Monetary Fund, World Bank and Asian Development Bank are complicit in the gross human rights violations and death of democracy in Bangladesh. They continued to supply financial blood line to the regime, well-documented for its corruptions, human rights violations 鈥� such as forced disappearances and tortures...
Rights orgs demand probe into human rights violations
The Amnesty International and Human Rights Development Centre on Tuesday urged the authority to investigate into all the alleged violation of human rights issues during the student protest that killed over 300 students and people...
Sons of Ghulam Azam, Mir Quasem Ali released from DGFI鈥檚 Aynaghor
Former army brigadier general Abdullahil Aman Azmi, the second son of late Jamaat-e-Islami leader Ghulam Azam, and Mir Ahmad Bin Quasem, the younger son of...
Law enforcers should protect rights, life: HC
The High Court on Sunday made seven observations stating that law enforcers should protect human lives and human rights while dealing with protests...
Release detained students in 24 hours: civil society
A group of civil society representatives on Thursday issued a 24-hour ultimatum, demanding the unconditional release of students detained illegally during the quota reform movement, who were mostly charged with sabotage...
EU expresses concern over Bangladesh鈥檚 human rights situation
The European Union has conveyed its grave concern to Bangladesh at the announcement of a 鈥榮hoot on sight鈥� policy and 鈥榰nlawful killings鈥� perpetrated in recent days by the authorities in Bangladesh...
TIB urges law enforcers to stop harassing people violating human rights
In order to justify human rights violations such as large-scale killings, detentions, and unjust actions carried out by law enforcement agencies, as well as to suppress the movement, the government, ruling party, state-run institutions, and the Detective Branch have employed false narratives that are self-destructive, anti-people, and cruel theatrics which people have no reason to trust, the Transparency International Bangladesh has said...
NHRC wants perpetrators of violence during quota protests to be identified
The National Human Rights Commission has issued a call for the identification and prosecution of perpetrators involved in recent violence surrounding the quota reform movement in government jobs, emphasising that this process should be based solely on reliable and specific information...
140 int鈥檒 scholars call on UN rights chief for action against repression in Bangladesh
One hundred and forty scholars, writers and public intellectuals from across the globe in an open letter to the United Nations Human Rights High Commissioner Volker T眉rk have requested immediate action against...
Restoration of women quota demanded
Leaders of two women oganisations on Saturday at a human chain formed in Dhaka called on the government to restore justified per cent of the quota for women in government jobs...
Int鈥檒 pressure needed to protect rights in Bangladesh: HRW
The Bangladeshi government has deployed the army against student protesters, imposed shoot-on-sight curfew orders, and shut down mobile data and internet services...
Rights activists find excessive use of force
Noted human rights activists on Wednesday said that they found that the government applied excessive force to prevent the agitation of unarmed students that started with the demand for reform in the quota system in government jobs...
Attacks on Bangladesh student protesters unacceptable: UN HR chief
UN human rights chief Volker Turk said on Friday he was deeply concerned by this week鈥檚 violence in Bangladesh, calling the attacks on student protesters 鈥榮hocking and unacceptable鈥�...
Security forces target unarmed students: rights groups
The Bangladesh government has deployed the army against the protesting students, imposed shoot-on-sight curfew orders, and shut down mobile data and internet services to target unarmed students in Bangladesh, said the Human Rights Watch on Tuesday...
Israel quietly disappears West Bank land
AS ISRAEL鈥橲 genocide in Gaza enters its tenth month, its settler-colonial project advances relentlessly across historic Palestine...
Int鈥檒 rights bodies call for end to 鈥榡udicial harassment鈥� of Professor Yunus
CIVICUS, a global civil society alliance, and the Asian Human Rights Commission have called on Bangladeshi authorities to immediately end the ongoing judicial process, which they...