Presenting the fact-finding report in Geneva in Switzerland on human rights violations and abuses related to the protests of the July-August student-led mass uprising in Bangladesh, United Nations鈥� high commissioner for Human Rights, Volker T眉rk, on Wednesday said that accountability was absolutely the key...
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...
UN high commissioner for human rights Volker T眉rk on Monday hoped that their recent independent fact-finding report would support truth-telling, accountability, reparations, healing and reform in Bangladesh.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker T眉rk, will brief the member states about its findings on human rights violations and abuses in July uprising on Wednesday during the 55th session of the human rights council.
Officers belonging to 25 cadres outside the administration cadre of Bangladesh Civil Service observed daylong work abstention in government offices across the country on Sunday, protesting at the dominance of the administration cadre and suspension of 12 officers.
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...
Business stakeholders of the United Arab Emirates said that Bangladesh should focus on its large pool of young people and make them skilled enough so that foreign investors could feel confident about investing in Bangladesh and utilising this young demographic dividend...
THE High Court has rightly issued a warning against bureaucrats, noting that any negligence to protect the environment would entail action against the officials who would fail to comply with court orders in this connection. The bench sounded the warnings as it heard a petition that legal aid organisation Human Rights and Peace for Bangladesh filed seeking the...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Tuesday resumed hearing of the review petition filed by death row convict ATM Azharul Islam, a senior Jamaat-e-Islami leader, challenging his death sentence for crimes against humanity committed during the War of Independence...
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...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has scheduled February 25 for the hearing of a review petition filed by death row convict ATM Azharul Islam, a Jamaat-e-Islami leader, challenging his death sentence for crimes against humanity committed during the War of Independence in 1971...
Reaffirming the need for synergistic efforts to uphold human rights and curb violence on the border, Bangladesh and India on Thursday agreed to work together with utmost synergy by enhancing joint patrolling, vigilance, and intensifying public awareness programmes...
Japan urged the Taliban government to respect human rights during a rare diplomatic meeting with a senior member of the visiting Afghan delegation, Tokyo said on Wednesday...
The International Crimes Tribunal on Tuesday extended the deadline to April 20 for submitting investigation reports against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 45 others over the allegations of genocide and crimes against humanity committed during the July-August mass uprising...
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...
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...
THE findings of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights report on the student protests and consequent mass uprising in July鈥揂ugust 2024 that it was the prime minister Sheikh Hasina, deposed on August 5 that year, ordered security forces to kill protesters and hide their bodies point to heinous crimes. The report, released in Geneva on February 12, also...
The Bangladesh interim government has welcomed the fact-finding report of the UN human rights office on the July-August protests.
The ousted prime minister and Awami League president, Sheikh Hasina, herself ordered security forces to kill protesters and hide their bodies to quell the student-led protests in July 2024 in Bangladesh, according to a report by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights...
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.
Members of the criminal investigation department of police have arrested a member of a human trafficking gang at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka...
WHY does time pass so quickly while searching for one specific piece of information on an electronic device? Time passes unnoticed in a never-ending cycle of marathon-like scrolling. One app leads to another in an endless loop, especially when a notification pops up, diverting attention to yet another platform before returning to the original task. The...
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...
Saudi Arabian ambassador to Bangladesh Essa Yousef Essa Alduhailan on Wednesday said that Saudi Arabia was eager to strengthen its relations with Bangladesh in trade, investment, tourism and people-to-people exchanges, alongside its ongoing humanitarian cooperation...
Representatives of the Human Rights Watch on Wednesday met with the Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearance.
Human Rights Watch handed over a report on the July Uprising to Bangladesh interim government chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Tuesday, saying that officers had told them the ousted Bangladesh dictator, Sheikh 鈥楬asina directly ordered enforced disappearances and killings.鈥�, said a press release.
Interim government of Bangladesh needs to work on long-term systemic reforms to address issues like arbitrary arrests, reprisal violence, enforced disappearance and extra-judicial killings and to restore democracy in the country, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Tuesday...
The Centre for Peace and Justice, BRAC University has recently organised a public lecture titled Crimes Against Humanity in Myanmar: Challenges and Way Forward for IIMM on its campus in Dhaka...
The International Criminal Court鈥檚 chief prosecutor on Thursday said he was seeking arrest warrants against senior Taliban leaders in Afghanistan over the persecution of women, a crime against humanity...
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...