60pc rape victims children, 28pc perpetrator aged 11–30
A survey by a woman rights organisation has revealed that in 2024, a staggering 60 per cent of the girl children who faced violence were victims of rape...
A survey by a woman rights organisation has revealed that in 2024, a staggering 60 per cent of the girl children who faced violence were victims of rape...
The families of a section of July uprising victims continue to protest for the second consecutive day on Monday, pressing their demands, including the resignation of law adviser Asif Nazrul and chief adviser’s special assistant for home Md Khuda Baksh Chowdhury.
People suffered on Sunday due to traffic congestion as the families of a section of July uprising victims blocked the road leading to the state guest house Jamuna in the capital to press their demands, including the resignation of law adviser Asif Nazrul and chief adviser’s special assistant for home ministry Md Khuda Baksh Chowdhury...
Italian authorities on Friday sought to identify the bodies of 27 people who died when two crowded boats sank off the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa...
A blood donation programme was organised at the UCEP head office in Dhaka for the treatment of children who survived the Milestone tragedy...
THE delay in disbursing grants and allowances to those wounded and to the families of those martyred during the July uprising is deeply disappointing. The interim government — formed after the student-led mass movement toppled the authoritarian Awami League government in August 2024 — repeatedly pledged that support and rehabilitation for the victims would be...
Sufferings and disappointment of the people wounded in the July uprising deepens on as many of them have yet to receive any or furhter financial help from the July Shaheed Smrity Foundation...
YET another flash flood has left thousands stranded in coastal regions, worsening the already fragile disaster-prone areas. Reports show that large swathes of Feni, Cumilla, Shariatpur, Chattogram, Barishal, Khulna and Noakhali grapple with flash floods and widespread inundation. In many areas, residents live without access to safe drinking water. The flood has also...
Different rights bodies and the families of the victims of enforced disappearance on Wednesday demanded justice for the victims of disappearance and torture as the country march with the world in observing International Day in Support of Victims of Torture today...
The human rights organisation Odhikar on Tuesday demanded diplomatic negotiations between the Bangladesh government and Indian authorities to investigate whether additional victims of enforced disappearance remained in India as some of previously disappeared individuals were later found there...
ON THE night of April 29, slipping inexorably into the 30th, 1991, I stood on the deck of the BNS Osman, a young officer clad in the ceremonial austerity of the Red Sea Rig. It was a moment of professional pride, for I had only recently earned my certificate of competency — a tangible symbol of merit in a tradition-bound service. I harboured quiet dreams of one day...
VICTIMS of crime are individuals or entities who suffer harm — whether physical, emotional, psychological, financial, or social — as a direct result of criminal activities. This includes not only those directly affected but also their families and dependants, who may experience secondary victimisation. Victims can be individuals, businesses, or institutions that endure losses...
About 61 per cent of all fatal victims in road crashes occurred in the Dhaka North City Corporation areas in 2023 were pedestrians, said a report published on Wednesday...
Health and family welfare adviser Nurjahan Begum on Sunday said that they were working to send 21 injured in the July mass uprising to Turkey and 31 to Pakistan for advanced treatment...
EACH year, on March 25, the world pauses to observe International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, an occasion that commemorates one of the most brutal and dehumanising chapters in history. This remembrance is not merely symbolic. It is a moral imperative, a call to reflect on a legacy that still ripples through our...
Eighteen Bangladeshi human trafficking victims returned home from Myanmar early Wednesday...
THAT pedestrians continue to constitute the largest group of road accident victims warrants special attention and specific measures are needed to protect them. In February, at least 114 pedestrians died in road accidents. In a road accident on March 10, a pedestrian died and another was seriously injured when a covered van ran over them at Banani in Dhaka. Both of them...
THE March 3 protest at Lalmatia that Bangladesh Against Rape and Harassment held was not just a response to a single event but the culmination of growing disappointment with the government’s failure to protect women from escalating violence. The demonstrators, predominantly woman activists and concerned citizens, burnt an effigy of the home affairs adviser...
The interim government on Thursday announced that the government was likely to start from March the distribution of monthly allowance for the victims of July mass uprising...
Mayer Dak, a platform of families of enforced disappearance victims, on Tuesday submitted formal complaints to the office of the chief prosecutor at the International Crimes Tribunal, about 100 cases of enforced disappearance and extrajudicial killing...
Gazipur Zila Parishad on Sunday distributed a cheque of Tk 1 lakh each to the families of 9 martyrs in the July-August mass uprising in the district...
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...
The interim government has started providing financial assistance from the state to the injured persons and the families of the martyrs in the July uprising...
IT IS unfortunate that the people injured during the July mass uprising had to take to the streets repeatedly to press home their demand for quality treatment and rehabilitation. On February 2, a group of injured persons, including several undergoing treatment at hospitals, blocked different roads in Dhaka as the government so far has failed to provide...
A group of July-August uprising victims, including several undergoing treatment at hospitals, blocked different roads in Dhaka city until Sunday evening starting from the previous evening, pressing for...
Bangladesh Navy in a joint operation at Baharchhara union of Teknaf upazila in Cox’s Bazar detained 20 people, including human trafficking victims and Rohingyas, on Tuesday...
Political party leaders and eminent citizens on Sunday demanded rehabilitation of the families of the martyrs and wounded people during the July-August mass uprising...
SUFFERINGS have intensified and despair has deepened for the people who became wounded in and for the families who lost their members to the July-August uprising, with the July Shaheed Smrity Foundation — set up to provide early health care, financial assistance and long-term, sustainable support for the martyrs and the victims of the uprising...
The Saudi embassy in Dhaka organised an opening ceremony of the food basket distribution and shelter construction for flood and cyclone victims in Bangladesh programme on Wednesday...