THE Bangladesh Expatriates鈥� Rights Council鈥檚 demand for the recognition of the contribution of the expatriates to the 2024 July uprising, which toppled the authoritarian regime of the Awami League for a decade and a half on August 5, 2024, and their political inclusion in the July national charter 2025 merits justification. The council, a platform of expatriate Bangladeshis...
CHILDHOOD, from birth to eighteen, is the single most formative period in human life. It is during these years that the foundations of physical, cognitive, social, emotional, motor and linguistic development are laid. Research suggests that up to 90 per cent of brain development, along with socio-emotional and linguistic skills, occurs before the age of three. These...
Politicians, academics and professionals on Monday at a discussion in Dhaka city called on the interim government to make public the list of land grabbers in the Chattogram Hill Tracts and the amounts of land grabbed...
Air Canada on Sunday suspended its plan to resume flights over a strike by flight attendants that has effectively shut down the airline and snarled summer travel for its passengers around the world...
Citizens, including academics, rights activists and lawyers, on Sunday issued a joint statement demanding immediate release of economist Professor Abul Barkat on bail considering his professional life and humanitarian aspect...
Women rights activists on Saturday iterated their call on the interim government to increase the reserved seats for women in the national parliament...
Fisheries and livestock adviser Farida Akhter at a programme in Dhaka on Saturday urged to build a country where human rights would not be violated...
The UN human rights office said Friday that at least 1,760 Palestinians had been killed while seeking aid in Gaza since late May, a jump of several hundred since its last published figure at the beginning of August...
The UN human rights chief Wednesday urged Sri Lanka鈥檚 new government to seize the 鈥榟istoric opportunity鈥� to end its entrenched culture of impunity for war crimes and other abuses...
The United States Department of State has said that Bangladesh鈥檚 human rights situation stabilised despite some concerns after Professor Muhammad Yunus-led interim government had taken over following the ouster of the Sheikh Hasina-led regime on August 5, 2024 amid mass student protests...
Ahead of the International Youth Day, UNICEF on Thursday officially launched the Young People Advisory Group in Bangladesh, marking a major milestone in the organisation鈥檚 commitment to elevating youth voices and fostering meaningful engagement in shaping policies and programmes that affect children and young people across the country...
The annual human rights report produced by the United States will scale back criticism of El Salvador, Israel and Russia, a report said Wednesday, as officials hinted it would focus instead on what they call dwindling freedom of expression in Europe...
THE heads of five commissions on tasked with making recommendations for reforms in labour rights, women鈥檚 affairs, public health, local government and the media, set up on November 18, 2024, on August 3 urged the chief adviser to the interim government to take steps for the implementation of the recommendations of the commission and secure commitment from the...
Women rights activists and professionals have rejected the National Consensus Commission鈥檚 decision of not increasing the reserved seats for women in parliament from the current provision of 50...
Security agency officials and policymakers at a discussion on Wednesday reaffirmed Bangladesh鈥檚 commitment to combat human trafficking, recognising it as a grave violation of human rights and a serious form of organised crime...
Rights groups B鈥橳selem and Physicians for Human Rights Israel said on Monday that they had concluded the war in Gaza amounts to a 鈥榞enocide鈥� against Palestinians, a first for Israeli NGOs.
Russia on Sunday began direct commercial flights to North Korea, in a further sign of closer ties with its Asian ally helping its offensive in Ukraine...
Law adviser Asif Nazrul at a programme in Dhaka on Saturday said that human rights must be nurtured as a culture rather than an issue of enforcement.
Indian authorities have expelled more than 1,500 Bengali Muslims to Bangladesh in recent weeks without due process, claiming that they are 鈥榠llegal immigrants鈥�, the Human Rights Watch said on Thursday.
More than 100 aid organisations and human rights groups warned on Wednesday that 鈥榤ass starvation鈥� was spreading in Gaza, as the United States said its top envoy was heading to Europe for talks on a possible ceasefire and aid corridor...
Alaska Airlines said Monday it had resumed operations after hours earlier requesting its fleet be grounded because of an 鈥業T outage.鈥�...
Bangladesh鈥檚 interim government has said that the United Nations rights office in Bangladesh would focus on addressing and preventing serious human rights abuses, such as those perpetrated by the previous government, and ensuring accountability for violations....
The government of Bangladesh has signed a three-year Memorandum of Understanding with the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to field a mission in the country aimed at supporting the promotion and protection of human rights...
SEXUAL and reproductive health and rights lie at the foundation of bodily freedom, gender justice and fair development. They are not limited to medical access but stretch into the right to decide 鈥� freely and safely 鈥� about one鈥檚 body, one鈥檚 relationships and one鈥檚 future. For Bangladesh, which has made remarkable socio-economic progress in recent decades, ensuring...
IN A MEETING with the National Consensus Commission held on July 13, all parties included in the process have agreed on the method of appointing the chief justice of the Supreme Court, as well as measures to ensure that the declaration of a state of emergency cannot be misused. The current constitution allows emergency declarations for up to 120 days and requires only...
Women鈥檚 rights activists on Saturday demanded direct elections to the reserved seats for women in the Jatiya Sangsad, urging political parties to ensure meaningful representation and end the system of nomination that often sidelines women鈥檚 leadership...
The interim government on Thursday approved a proposal to establish an office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Bangladesh -- initially for three years...
The Trump administration on Monday accused Harvard of violating the civil rights of its Jewish and Israeli students and threatened to cut off all federal funding if the university does not take urgent action...
The number of incidents of human rights violation in the Chittagong Hill Tracts鈥攃overing Rangamati, Khagrachhari and Bandarban districts鈥攕lightly decreased in the first half of 2025, with 103 incidents reported, compared with 107 incidents during the same period last year, according to a half-yearly report by Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti...
WORKERS continuing to die or face brutality while trying to earn a living is symptomatic of a systemic failure to properly uphold labour rights. In the first half of 2025, at least 422 workers died in 373 workplace-related incidents, as the Safety and Rights Society says. Traffic accidents caused 267 of the death, with the transport sector alone accounting for 207 fatalities. Many of...
