Political parties on Saturday underscored the need for structural reforms, institutional recovery from fragile states and judicial reforms to ensure a sustainable democratic transition.
United Nations secretary-general Antonio Guterres on Saturday officially opened a new UN House in Bangladesh in the city...
Visiting United Nations secretary general Antonio Guterres on Friday urged the international community to step up support for Rohingyas sheltered in Bangladesh.
Bangladesh interim government chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus and United Nations secretary general Antonio Guterres took Iftar with about one lakh Rohingyas at Ukhiya refugee camp in Cox鈥檚 Bazar today.
Visiting United Nations secretary general Antonio Guterres today expressed his solidarity with Bangladesh鈥檚 reform and transition process.
Chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Friday told the visiting United Nations secretary general Antonio Guterres that the national election could be held in December this year if the political parties agreed to 鈥榓 short package鈥� of...
A United Nations investigation concluded Thursday that Israel carried out 鈥榞enocidal鈥� acts in Gaza through the systematic destruction of sexual and reproductive healthcare facilities.
The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations will provide 4 million US dollars to Bangladesh for preserving fruits.
United Nations secretary general Ant贸nio Guterres, who arrived in Dhaka Thursday afternoon on a four-day visit to Bangladesh, is scheduled to visit Cox鈥檚 Bazar Rohingya camps today.
United Nations secretary general Ant贸nio Guterres is scheduled to arrive in Dhaka at about 5:00pm today on a four-day visit to Bangladesh...
he United Nations warned Tuesday that the global aid funding crisis could be paid in children's lives in Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh, unless sustainable funds emerge fast.
The United Nations migration agency has reversed cuts to funding for Rohingya refugees in Indonesia, its top official in the country said on Tuesday, days after it slashed assistance because of US president Donald Trump鈥檚 foreign aid funding freeze...
Newly appointed special assistant for the finance ministry Anisuzzaman Chowdhury on Tuesday said that the country鈥檚 trade-related data had not been shared with the United Nations since 2015...
THE Rohingya influx into Bangladesh keeps taking place slowly as they flee violence and a fearful situation in their native place of Rakhine, which is reported for long to have been caught in conflicts. The Office of the Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner says that 53,948 Rohingyas were given registration by the office at hand and the Office of the...
The United Nations World Food Programme warns of a critical funding shortfall for its emergency response operations in Bangladesh, jeopardising food assistance for over one million displaced Rohingya people in Bangladesh.
Thirty years after world leaders adopted a historic blueprint to achieve gender equality, a new United Nations report says women鈥檚 and girls鈥� rights are under attack and gender discrimination remains deeply embedded in economies and societies...
THE United Nations鈥� sudden and drastic reduction in monthly food aid, by 52 per cent, could be devastating for more than a million of the Rohingyas now sheltered in Bangladesh. The World Food Programme on March 5 announced that it would reduce its allocation for food for the Rohingyas in Bangladesh from $12.5 to $6 per person beginning on April 1 and cited...
The United Nations is going to reduce its allocation for food for Rohingyas in Bangladesh from $12.50 to $6 a month per person from the next month...
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...
Visiting United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi hoped that the international community would renew its focus to resolve the Rohingya crisis...
Thailand deported dozens of Uyghurs to China on Thursday despite warnings from human rights groups that they would face persecution on their return, drawing swift condemnation from the United Nations...
State security forces and Awami League men were involved in crimes against humanity during the July uprising as the security forces in some cases shot defenceless protesters from point blank range to kill them, said a United Nations report...
The office of the United Nations secretary-general has said that UN secretary-general Ant贸nio Guterres will undertake an official visit to Bangladesh in March 13-16...
The international system is in upheaval with human rights being 鈥榮uffocated鈥�, the United Nations said Monday, warning that an era of 鈥榙ictators鈥� could return.
WHEN the chief advisor professor Muhammad Yunus extended an official invitation to the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to conduct an independent fact-finding into human rights violations committed during the July mass uprising, it was highly commended by rights organisations and civil society alike, except for those sections of...
Around 42,000 people have fled the conflict raging in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and crossed into Burundi in the past two weeks, the United Nations said Friday....
A total of 93 bodies have now been recovered from two mass graves found in Libya during raids on human trafficking networks, the United Nations said Wednesday...
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...
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...
The United Nations Human Rights Office in its fact-finding report on rights abuses related to July-August protests in Bangladesh has called for suspending officials, including those at the command and leadership level...