THERE is joy in diplomatic Geneva. The neutral, good offices convenor of Reagan-Gorbachev and Putin鈥揃iden summits is back in the headlines with trade talks between China and the United States. 鈥楥hina-US tariff talks place Swiss diplomacy on centre stage鈥� boasted a local website. But wait, is not the trade war between the United States and China a clear violation...
Bangladesh will participate in the 37th Commonwealth Health Ministers Meeting to be held on May 17 in Geneva, on the sidelines of the 78th World Health Assembly...
TO CONQUER a place is to fundamentally subdue its population. This must be clearly differentiated from 鈥榦ccupation鈥�, a specific legal term that governs the relationship between a foreign 鈥榦ccupying power鈥� and the occupied nation under international law, particularly the Fourth Geneva Convention...
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鈥� high commissioner for Human Rights, Volker T眉rk, on Wednesday said that accountability was absolutely the key...
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...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk will present the United Nations human rights fact-finding report on human rights violations and abuses related to the protests of July and August 2024 in Bangladesh in Geneva on Wednesday.
The UN Human Rights Office will hold news conference on Human Rights Violations and Abuses related to the protests of July and August 2024 in Bangladesh.
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...
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...
A rare square 37-carat emerald owned by the Aga Khan fetched nearly nine million dollars at auction in Geneva on Tuesday, making it the world鈥檚 most expensive green stone.
The Rapid Action Battalion captured Bunia Sohel, reportedly the leading drug dealer and armed gang leader responsible for a surge in violent crime within the Mohammadpur Geneva camp in Dhaka, and...
A teenager, who sustained bullet injury in a gunfight between two drug peddler groups in the Urdu-speaking people camp in the capital鈥檚 Mohammadpur area on Saturday evening, died while undergoing treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Monday morning...
The Bangladesh Army and the police are mulling to set up a makeshift camp at Mohammadpur Government High School to contain criminal activities at Geneva Camp in Dhaka.
At least four people sustained bullet injuries in a gunfight reportedly between two groups of drug peddlers at Geneva Camp in the capital鈥檚 Mohammadpur area on Saturday evening...
The Young Activists Summit will honour five outstanding young people who have inspired and mobilised their communities to create meaningful change on November 19, 2024.
A team of joint forces on Sunday conducted a raid on Geneva Camp in Mohammadpur area and arrested 34 miscreants, including drug peddlers, and recovered huge local weapons and ammunitions.
The largest outreach event of the World Trade Organisation will start today at the multilateral trade organisation鈥檚 secretariat in the Swiss city of Geneva...
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...