The United Nations Human Rights Office and Bangladesh have signed a memorandum of understanding to launch a rights office in Bangladesh for a three-year period to support the promotion and protection of human rights in the country.
The Bangladesh law, justice and parliamentary affairs adviser, Asif Nazrul, said the interim government was committed to an impartial and credible investigation into the July-August massacre in Bangladesh and due judicial processes for redress.
THE much-awaited fact-finding report of the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, OHCHR, on the Protests of July and August 2024 in Bangladesh has been seen as instrumental in resolving many debates related to accountability and justice for the human rights violations from July 1 to August 15, 2024. Though all human rights violations may not...
The prolonged single-party rule had steadily politicised Bangladesh鈥檚 state institutions that permeated the country鈥檚 entire security sector as well, since authorities preferred recruitment and promotion there to be based on perceived political loyalty instead of professionalism, the UN rights office report said.
The UN rights office has said armed Awami League (AL) leaders incited their armed activists including now disbanded Chhatra League (BCL) to resort to violent means to suppress the July August protestors.
The United Nations Human Rights Office in a fact-finding report has stated that it did not find any genuine efforts by the Sheikh Hasina government to investigate any of the serious violations and abuses committed by the state鈥檚 security forces...
International Crimes Tribunal chief prosecutor Muhammad Tajul Islam on Thursday said the fact-finding Report of the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) would be used at the tribunal as an irrefutable evidence for crimes against humanity during the July-August student-led mass uprising.
The Bangladesh interim government has welcomed the fact-finding report of the UN human rights office on the July-August protests.
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.