The National Human Rights Commission has issued a call for the identification and prosecution of perpetrators involved in recent violence surrounding the quota reform movement in government jobs, emphasising that this process should be based solely on reliable and specific information...
One hundred and forty scholars, writers and public intellectuals from across the globe in an open letter to the United Nations Human Rights High Commissioner Volker T眉rk have requested immediate action against...
Leaders of two women oganisations on Saturday at a human chain formed in Dhaka called on the government to restore justified per cent of the quota for women in government jobs...
The Bangladeshi government has deployed the army against student protesters, imposed shoot-on-sight curfew orders, and shut down mobile data and internet services...
Noted human rights activists on Wednesday said that they found that the government applied excessive force to prevent the agitation of unarmed students that started with the demand for reform in the quota system in government jobs...
UN human rights chief Volker Turk said on Friday he was deeply concerned by this week鈥檚 violence in Bangladesh, calling the attacks on student protesters 鈥榮hocking and unacceptable鈥�...
The Bangladesh government has deployed the army against the protesting students, imposed shoot-on-sight curfew orders, and shut down mobile data and internet services to target unarmed students in Bangladesh, said the Human Rights Watch on Tuesday...
AS ISRAEL鈥橲 genocide in Gaza enters its tenth month, its settler-colonial project advances relentlessly across historic Palestine...
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...
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...
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...
Myanmar鈥檚 Rakhine State is facing a terrifying situation similar to the run up to 鈥榞enocidal violence鈥� eight years ago against the persecuted Rohingya minority, a UN expert warned on Thursday...
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...
India鈥檚 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...
Early morning frost has been detected on the peaks of massive volcanoes on Mars, an unexpected discovery about the dispersal of water on Mars that could one day prove essential for human exploration, scientists said on Monday...
INTERNATIONAL law 鈥� 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 鈥� has been agreed upon by large and small nations alike...
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...
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...
Even the most optimistic of political analysts did not expect that the International Criminal Court鈥檚 chief prosecutor would be uttering these words:..
WE ARE living in a digital age where artificial intelligence emerges as the most hyped of all. AI creates an illusion that it is human parallel intelligence, although it is not in fact. The OECD defines AI as a machine-based system that has limited autonomy to make some decisions...
The UN human rights chief said on Sunday he is 鈥榙eeply alarmed鈥� by a resurgence of violence in Myanmar鈥檚 Rakhine state and warned of further 鈥榓trocities鈥�...
Activists and dissidents seeking refuge in Thailand are being subjected to harassment, surveillance and physical violence, often with the cooperation of...
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...
Dhaka University Officers鈥� Association on Sunday formed a human chain, demanding cancellation of the notification of the universal pension system issued by the Ministry of Finance, calling it discriminatory...
The UN human rights chief on Friday pleaded with the Gaza war rivals to ensure the territory鈥檚 border crossings, vital for humanitarian aid, are not...
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.....
A series of attacks by Sudanese paramilitary forces in the western region of Darfur raise the possibility of 鈥榞enocide鈥� against non-Arab ethnic communities, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday...
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鈥檚 drives against ethnic armed group Kuki-Chin National Front in the Chittagong Hill Tracts...
