61pc fatal DNCC road accident victims in 2023 pedestrians: report
About 61 per cent of all fatal victims in road crashes occurred in the Dhaka North City Corporation areas in 2023 were pedestrians, said a report published on Wednesday...
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Govt to send 52 uprising victims to Turkey, Pakistan
Health and family welfare adviser Nurjahan Begum on Sunday said that they were working to send 21 injured in the July mass uprising to Turkey and 31 to Pakistan for advanced treatment...
REMEMBERING SLAVERY: Confronting past, resisting present
EACH year, on March 25, the world pauses to observe International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, an occasion that commemorates one of the most brutal and dehumanising chapters in history. This remembrance is not merely symbolic. It is a moral imperative, a call to reflect on a legacy that still ripples through our...
18 trapped in Myanmar scam centre return
Eighteen Bangladeshi human trafficking victims returned home from Myanmar early Wednesday...
Govt needs to make roads pedestrian-friendly
THAT pedestrians continue to constitute the largest group of road accident victims warrants special attention and specific measures are needed to protect them. In February, at least 114 pedestrians died in road accidents. In a road accident on March 10, a pedestrian died and another was seriously injured when a covered van ran over them at Banani in Dhaka. Both of them...
Blaming victims, shielding mob
THE March 3 protest at Lalmatia that Bangladesh Against Rape and Harassment held was not just a response to a single event but the culmination of growing disappointment with the government鈥檚 failure to protect women from escalating violence. The demonstrators, predominantly woman activists and concerned citizens, burnt an effigy of the home affairs adviser...
Allowance for uprising victims likely from March
The interim government on Thursday announced that the government was likely to start from March the distribution of monthly allowance for the victims of July mass uprising...
ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCES: Mayer Dak files 100 ICT complaints
Mayer Dak, a platform of families of enforced disappearance victims, on Tuesday submitted formal complaints to the office of the chief prosecutor at the International Crimes Tribunal, about 100 cases of enforced disappearance and extrajudicial killing...
Gazipur Zila Parishad distributes聽Tk 1 lakh each to 9 July victims
Gazipur Zila Parishad on Sunday distributed a cheque of Tk 1 lakh each to the families of 9 martyrs in the July-August mass uprising in the district...
Govt should cooperate with UN in investigation: discussion
Activists, journalists and families of enforced disappearance victims said on Thursday that the Bangladesh government should cooperate fully with the United Nations in its fair and transparent investigation into the massacre of people, including children, during the July-August mass uprising...
Govt starts providing financial assistance to July victims
The interim government has started providing financial assistance from the state to the injured persons and the families of the martyrs in the July uprising...
Sufferings of injured July uprising victims unfortunate
IT IS unfortunate that the people injured during the July mass uprising had to take to the streets repeatedly to press home their demand for quality treatment and rehabilitation. On February 2, a group of injured persons, including several undergoing treatment at hospitals, blocked different roads in Dhaka as the government so far has failed to provide...
MASS UPRISING: Victims block city roads for healthcare, rehab
A group of July-August uprising victims, including several undergoing treatment at hospitals, blocked different roads in Dhaka city until Sunday evening starting from the previous evening, pressing for...
HUMAN TRAFFICKING: 17 Rohingyas among 20 held in Cox鈥檚 Bazar
Bangladesh Navy in a joint operation at Baharchhara union of Teknaf upazila in Cox鈥檚 Bazar detained 20 people, including human trafficking victims and Rohingyas, on Tuesday...
MASS UPRISING: Injured victims stage demo, want rehabilitation
Political party leaders and eminent citizens on Sunday demanded rehabilitation of the families of the martyrs and wounded people during the July-August mass uprising...
Help for uprising victims should have already been shored up
SUFFERINGS have intensified and despair has deepened for the people who became wounded in and for the families who lost their members to the July-August uprising, with the July Shaheed Smrity Foundation 鈥� set up to provide early health care, financial assistance and long-term, sustainable support for the martyrs and the victims of the uprising...
Saudi embassy inaugurates programme for flood, cyclone victims
The Saudi embassy in Dhaka organised an opening ceremony of the food basket distribution and shelter construction for flood and cyclone victims in Bangladesh programme on Wednesday...
Enforced Disappearance: Victims killed or jailed in fictitious cases
The Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearance in its first interim report has found that most victims were either killed or ended up in jail implicated in fictitious cases...
Punishment of Hasina, cohorts demanded
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...
JU distributes Tk 37 lakh in aid to uprising victims
Jahangirnagar University authorities have distributed financial aid amounting to Tk 36.96 lakh to individuals injured during the July-August mass uprising...
World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims observed
World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims was observed in Bangladesh on Sunday as elsewhere in the world.
July uprising victims join rehab day celebrations at BSMMU
International Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Day was observed on Wednesday with student-led mass uprising victims, who were injured during the uprising that forced Sheikh Hasina to flee to India...
Justice for victims of enforced disappearances a must
FOR the interim government to facilitate any meaningful political transformation in the days to come, it should establish legal liability for victims of enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killing, custodial death, and torture done under the authoritarian Awami League regime. According to human rights organisations, security forces have committed...
Immediate complete list of victims demanded
The Democratic Rights Committee on Saturday presented 13 proposals to the interim government to restore stability and resolve the ongoing crisis in the country...
Govt should expedite support for July uprising victims
AS THE government struggles to make a complete list of the people injured during the student-mass uprising in July-August, let alone provide holistic support for the victims, another ordinary citizen wounded with a bullet died in Dhaka Medical College Hospital on September 20. The health ministry on September 21 reported that at least 1,423 people...
Justice for violence demanded
The University Teachers鈥� Network on Saturday held a protest rally demanding justice for those who were victims of violence, attacks, and murders on campuses and in the hills...
Families demand return of victims within 48 hours
The families of the victims of enforced disappearance on Monday issued a 48-hour ultimatum demanding return of them who disappeared during the tenure of the Awami League government...
Relief for flood victims still not enough for govt indolence
MANY people left stranded in Feni and Noakhali for more than a fortnight in the flooding of Bangladesh鈥檚 east, north-east and south-east still waiting for relief supplies or not getting supplies enough for their sustenance is a cause of concern. People marooned in remote areas are reported to be desperately waiting for relief supplies and medical support amidst...
Special OMS to begin in flood-hit districts: secretary
The government will launch a special open market sale programme for three months in the 14 flood-hit districts under Chattogram and Sylhet divisions, aiming to provide the affected people with rice and flour at subsidized rates...
Southeast Bank donates to CA鈥檚 relief fund
Southeast Bank PLC donated TK 2 Crore to the Chief Adviser鈥檚 Relief and Welfare Fund for relief and rehabilitation of flood victims, said a press release...