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Israel quietly disappears West Bank land

AS ISRAEL’S genocide in Gaza enters its tenth month, its settler-colonial project advances relentlessly across historic Palestine...

Int’l rights bodies call for end to ‘judicial harassment’ of Professor Yunus

CIVICUS, a global civil society alliance, and the Asian Human Rights Commission have called on Bangladeshi authorities to immediately end the ongoing judicial process, which they...

Ensure proper coordination, adjustment of quota-related issue: NHRC

The National Human Rights Commission chairman Kamal Uddin Ahmed on Thursday said that it was important to ensure proper coordination and adjustment of issues related to quota in the government jobs...

Effective steps needed to ensure marginalised people’s human rights, dignity: NHRC

The National Human Rights Commission chairman Kamal Uddin Ahmed on Tuesday at its thematic committee meeting said that effective steps must be taken to improve the quality of life, social security and dignity of the people of marginalised communities...

UN expert warns of looming ‘genocidal violence’ in Myanmar

Myanmar’s Rakhine State is facing a terrifying situation similar to the run up to ‘genocidal violence’ eight years ago against the persecuted Rohingya minority, a UN expert warned on Thursday...

NHRC demands DMP progress report by July 28

The National Human Rights Commission Bangladesh asked the Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner to submit a progress report on the investigation of the recent rape and torture of a newly married woman in Dhaka by July 28...

New Indian govt should refocus on rights: HRW

India’s new government should reverse laws and policies that discriminate against religious minorities and other vulnerable populations and end the crackdown on civil society and the media, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday in a letter to prime minister Narendra Modi...

Israel, Russia and int’l law

INTERNATIONAL law — the recognized rules of behavior among nations based on customary practices and treaties, among them the United Nations Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights — has been agreed upon by large and small nations alike...

Shocking delay in ensuring legal accountability for Nimtali fire

IT HAS been 14 years since a fire at a chemical warehouse at Nimtali in the Old Town of Dhaka killed 124 people, but no action has been taken against those responsible for the fire. On the anniversary of the deadly fire on June 2, the National Human Rights Commission issued a statement expressing frustration at the failure of the police to investigate the fire...

Responsible people evade responsibility, says NHRC

The National Human Rights Commission of Bangladesh on Monday said that no actions had been taken against those responsible for the Nimtoli fire incident and responsible individuals had evaded their obligations...

Missing part is political solution

UN warns of further ‘atrocities’ in Myanmar

The UN human rights chief said on Sunday he is ‘deeply alarmed’ by a resurgence of violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state and warned of further ‘atrocities’...

Surge in activist repression in Thailand, HRW warns

Activists and dissidents seeking refuge in Thailand are being subjected to harassment, surveillance and physical violence, often with the cooperation of...

Bureaucrats dominate NHRC, legal aid committee: CJ  

The chief justice Obaidul Hassan said on Tuesday said that bureaucrats were dominating the National Human Rights Commission and the National Legal Aid Services Organisation, instead of the judicial officers...

UN rights chief urges all to protect Gaza crossings

The UN human rights chief on Friday pleaded with the Gaza war rivals to ensure the territory’s border crossings, vital for humanitarian aid, are not...

US, Europe need to do more to protect HR of citizens: Hasan

Bangladesh foreign minister Hasan Mahmud on Friday said that there was a necessity for all the countries to work together to improve human rights records, including in the United States and Europe.....

Paramilitary attacks in Darfur possibly genocide: HRW

A series of attacks by Sudanese paramilitary forces in the western region of Darfur raise the possibility of ‘genocide’ against non-Arab ethnic communities, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday...

NHRC asks home ministry to investigate reports of abuses during anti-KNF drives

The National Human Rights Commission has asked the home ministry to initiate an inquiry into the allegations of human rights abuses taken place during the joint force’s drives against ethnic armed group Kuki-Chin National Front in the Chittagong Hill Tracts...

Writ petition seeks directives to prevent tree felling

A writ petition was on Sunday filed in public interest, seeking directive to the authorities concerned to form committees at the district and upazila levels to prevent tree felling across the country indiscriminately...

38 citizens protest at `harassment’ for standing by woman victim

Thirty-eight citizens in a statement have protested against alleged attempts to harass human rights activist, a lawyer and a journalist for standing by a...

5 Israeli military units committed abuses in West Bank: US

The United States has concluded that five Israeli security force units committed serious human rights violations against Palestinians in the West Bank before the...

No escape from international human rights scrutiny

IN MARCH 2020, the Sri Lankan government believed that the massive mandate president Gotabaya Rajapaksa had received gave it a licence to get out of the cycle of UN Human Rights Council resolutions by unilaterally opting...

Rights group demands probe into harassment

Human Rights Forum Bangladesh members on Monday called on the government to launch independent inquiry into the allegation of harassing ordinary people during the joint force’s drives against ethnic armed group Kuki-Chin National Front in Chittagong Hill Tracts...

Khaleda not under ‘house arrest’: govt

The government said on Thursday that the United States’ State Department report on the human rights situation in Bangladesh was prepared...

Khaleda confined to home: US

The United States Department of State in its annual report on human rights has said that Bangladesh former prime minister and chairperson of the lead opposition...

US Human Rights Report exposes govt’s injustice, brutality: Rizvi

Bangladesh Nationalist Party senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Tuesday said that the 2023 Human Rights Report released by the US had exposed the ‘injustice and brutality’ of Sheikh Hasina government in Bangladesh...

Bangladesh rights situation unchanged

The annual human rights report of the United States Department of State has said they found no significant changes in the overall rights situation in...

HC asks govt, NHRC to frame guidelines

The High Court on Monday asked the government authorities to explain in four weeks why Section 19 (b) of the Guardian and Ward Act, 1890 that allows the father only as the guardian of a minor child would not be declared as unconstitutional being ‘discriminatory’...

Political freedom, democracy and prosperity at stake

THE recent Global Freedom and Prosperity Report once again shows the alarming state of political and economic freedom and adherence to the rule of law and human rights in Bangladesh. The report, prepared by the...

China using ‘collective punishment’ against activists’ families

The children of human rights advocates in China are being punished for their parents’ activism as Beijing intensifies a crackdown on civil society, a rights group warned...