FAO to provide $4m for fruits preservation in Bangladesh
The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations will provide 4 million US dollars to Bangladesh for preserving fruits.
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UN secy gen to visit Cox鈥檚 Bazar camps today
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.
UN secy gen due 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...
Aid cuts to affect children's lives in Rohingya camps in Bangladesh: UN
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.
UN reinstates aid to Rohingya refugees in Indonesia
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...
Trade-related data not shared with UN since 2015: special assistant
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...
Nothing but repatriation can end Rohingya sufferings
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...
UN seeks urgent funds to avert ration cuts for Rohingyas in Bangladesh
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.
Women鈥檚 rights under attack: UN
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...
World community must work on UN Rohingya food aid cut
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...
UN to halve food budget for Rohingyas in Bangladesh camps
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...
TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION IN SRILANKA: Nawaz Commission provides guideline
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...
UNHCR urges global focus on Rohingya crisis
Visiting United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi hoped that the international community would renew its focus to resolve the Rohingya crisis...
Thailand deports dozens of Uyghurs to China
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...
July uprising protesters shot at point blank in some cases: UN report
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...
UN chief Antonio Guterres to visit Bangladesh in March 13-16
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...
Global system undergoing tectonic shift: UN
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.
CALL FOR UN ENGAGEMENT: Investigating violence against minoritised communities
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...
42,000 people fled eastern DRC to Burundi in two weeks: UN
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....
93 bodies found in Libya mass graves: UN
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...
RIGHTS ABUSE DURING JULY PROTESTS:聽Hasina regime hid abuses by state
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...
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...
RIGHTS ABUSES DURING JULY PROTESTS: UN for bringing perpetrators to book
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...
Human rights of all must be protected: seminar
The United Kingdom鈥檚 human rights ambassador and deputy permanent representative to the United Nations, Eleanor Sanders, at a seminar in Dhaka on Wednesday said that human rights of all must be protected regardless of race, religion or caste...
US walks away from Paris deal
ON HIS first day back in office, US president Donald Trump reignited a controversial chapter of American climate policy by notifying the United Nations of his administration鈥檚 intention to exit the Paris Climate agreement 鈥� for a second time. This echoes his first term, when the US formally withdrew from the accord in 2020, only for Joe Biden to reverse...
Urgent enhancements needed to combat climate change in Bangladesh
The United Nations World Food Programme and the Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief called for urgent enhancements to combat climate change in Bangladesh.
NATIONAL MINORITIES: Constitutional recognition for pluralistic society
INDIGENOUS peoples are identified in international forums, including the United Nations, as first nations, hunter-gatherers, or hill tribes. These peoples usually live in mountainous or rural areas somewhat isolated from the mainland, which reflects the distinctive characteristics of their social, cultural, and economic lifestyles. They often follow a socioeconomic...
UN fact-finding report on July atrocities by mid-Feb: T眉rk
United Nations high commissioner for human rights Volker T眉rk said that the UN fact-finding report on the atrocities during the July-August uprising was at final stage and would be released by mid-February...
Panama complains to UN over Trump canal threat
Panama has complained to the United Nations over US president Donald Trump鈥檚 鈥榳orrying鈥� threat to seize the Panama Canal, even as it launched an audit of the Hong Kong-linked operator of two ports on the interoceanic waterway...
Save world鈥檚 glaciers to save planet: UN
Saving the world鈥檚 shrinking glaciers is a 鈥榮urvival strategy鈥� for the planet, the UN said on Tuesday, a day after president Donald Trump announced the US would withdraw from the Paris climate accord...