Calm returned to southern Syria鈥檚 Sweida province on Sunday, a monitor and AFP correspondents reported, after a week of sectarian violence between Druze fighters and rival groups that killed more than 1,000 people...
The interim government on Tuesday dismissed the Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council and Minority Unity Alliance鈥檚 July 10 claim of 27 deaths in sectarian violence between January and June this year...
Leaders of the Left Democratic Alliance at a protest rally in Dhaka on Sunday called on the interim government to take immediate steps to stop mob violence and ensure safety of the people in the country...
The interim government on Sunday launched a nationwide combing operation amid a surge in criminal acts, including murder, extortions, and mob violence, in the country, sparking public outrage and anxiety...
Director general of the Rapid Action Battalion AKM Shahidur Rahman on Friday said that no one would be allowed to take the law into their own hands and disrupt public life through mob violence...
France on Saturday announced a 鈥榟istoric鈥� accord with New Caledonia in which the overseas territory, rocked by deadly separatist violence last year, would remain French but be declared a new state...
A meeting involving top diplomats from Southeast Asia, China, Russia and the United States will condemn violence against civilians in war-torn Myanmar, according to a draft statement seen Thursday by AFP...
PALESTINIANS are victims of most gruesome physical violence and are first-hand witnesses of death and destruction. Israel has illegally occupied their land and聽claimed it as its own. The Zionist state has been forcibly expelling indigenous Palestinians and threatening those who stay put with brutality and mass expulsion...
Speakers, including researchers and academics, on Wednesday said that violence against July uprising protesters was state-sponsored as the violence was perpetrated by the personnel of multiple branches of law enforcement and security agencies and leaders and activists of the then Awami League regime...
INSENSITIVE and irresponsible reporting on sexual harassment and rape increasingly puts survivor鈥檚 privacy, safety and mental well-being at serious risk. While established media outlets generally try to follow basic ethical standards in reporting sexual violence such as respecting victims and safeguarding the identity, online platforms, social media-based pages and informal...
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...
The chief coordinator of the Ganosamhati Andolan, Zonayed Saki, at a press conference in the capital on Tuesday said that the government鈥檚 failure to control mob violence was not acceptable...
Crimes, including murder, robbery, smuggling, drug dealing, and theft, are on the rise as the interim government has failed to restore the country鈥檚 law and order in the past 10 months since the political changeover on August 5, 2024.
Bangladesh Nationalist Party senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, reaffirming their party鈥檚 stance against the culture of mob violence, on Tuesday said that no one had the right to take the law into their own hands...
From Gaza to the Democratic Republic of Congo, violence against children in conflict zones reached 鈥榰nprecedented levels鈥� in 2024, a United Nations annual report said Thursday.
The Bangladesh Army on Thursday said that it would take stern actions against mob violence, loss of people鈥檚 lives and properties, and activities that would create public suffering in the future...
FIVE incidents rape that took place in four days since June 13 in Rajbari, Habiganj, Gazipur and Munshiganj lay bare the pervasive threat that girls and young women face. Two schoolgirls were abducted and raped at Pangsha in Rajpari in the morning on June 15. One of the accused was arrested. Two cases were filed. The driver of a bus and his assistant raped a young...
IN TODAY鈥橲 hyper-competitive and hyper-connected world, crime is no longer the business of back alleys and dimly lit street corners. It is carried out in conference rooms, corner offices and digital spaces by those dressed in crisp suits and operating from positions of power. These are not criminals with a record of violence or histories of petty theft. Rather, they are...
Police in Northern Ireland on Wednesday condemned 鈥榙isgraceful鈥� scenes of violence on a town鈥檚 streets after a second night of rioting targeting foreigners in which 17 officers were injured...
At least 109 women and 75 girls were victims of violence across the country in May, according to a report published by the Bangladesh Mahila Parishad on Monday.
THE recent surge in violence against women perpetrated by Islamist groups or mobs acting as 鈥榯awhidi janata鈥� alongside the government鈥檚 failure to adequately respond is gravely concerning. After the July uprising, in which women and girls from diverse backgrounds actively participated and which they often led, it was hoped that women鈥檚 democratic aspirations...
Columbia has been the site of demonstrations calling for an end to violence in Gaza for the past 18 months, and more recently, has seen student protesters arrested by the Trump administration....
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police has adopted a 鈥榸ero-tolerance鈥� policy against mob violence in the capital, said deputy commissioner of Ramna Division Masud Alam on Wednesday...
National Citizen Party is all set to launch its youth wing 鈥楯atiya Juba Shakti鈥� on May 16, with an aim to bring an alternative to traditional youth wings of political parties that are often associated with violence, extortion and factional control...
Chief adviser鈥檚 deputy press secretary Abul Kalam Azad Majumder on Saturday said that the Shapla Chatwar violence in 2013 claimed the lives of at least 58 people, including seven members of the security forces...
United Nations special envoy Geir Pedersen on Saturday urged Israel to immediately stop its attacks on Syria, after strikes including one near Damascus鈥檚 presidential palace, which followed sectarian violence this week...
A total of 442 women and girls were subjected to various forms of violence across the country in March alone...
Political violence has intensified, with 16 of the 20 killings that took place in March resulting from growing infighting of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its front organisations.
THERE is a slow violence unravelling in the capital 鈥� not through war or terrorism but through every breath that people take. Dhaka, one of the most densely populated cities in the world, is gasping, literally, for air. The city鈥檚 sky, once merely hazy in winter, has become a year-round cloak of poison. The air is not just unhealthy. It is a weapon of mass disablement...
THE sudden death of an RMG worker protesting in front of the Shrom Bhaban on March 23 took the media by storm. The festivities of Ramadan came to a halt, even if for a second, as Dhaka鈥檚 urban middle class was confronted with the stark realities hidden beneath the surface of the country鈥檚 multi-million-dollar RMG industry. The deceased was identified as...
