United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk has expressed concern over recent legal amendments that allow “banning political parties, organisations and their activities” in Bangladesh.
Grażyna Baranowska, vice chairperson of the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID), paid a courtesy call on Chief of Army Staff General Waker-Uz-Zaman at the army headquarters
Human chain held in front of PSC over bar on applying to Grade-10 jobs
Workers from a footwear factory staged a demonstration in Gazipur’s Sreepur upazila yesterday, demanding payment of their unpaid salaries for April and May.
Chamber judge of the Appellate Division of SC sent the petition to its full bench for hearing
Standoff over Ishraque Hossain’s mayoral post halts civic services in half of Dhaka
Services resume after halt over mayoral appointment demand
The Chattogram Port unit of the Jatiyatabadi Sramik Dal staged a sit-in in Chattogram today, protesting the government's move to hand over the New Mooring Container Terminal (NCT) of Chattogram Port to a foreign company
The report also said that religious freedom in Bangladesh has declined
Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus today stressed the need for a social movement against misogyny and prejudiced attitudes towards women
'They have set an example by their actions, showing how every organisation and individual can play a role in preventing violence against women,' says Sabnam Faria
Information Adviser Mahfuj Alam has said the independence of press is meaningless without its accountability to people
The deliberate targeting of student human rights defenders -- including women human rights defenders -- illustrates Bangladesh’s persistent criminalisation of dissent, further shrinking an already-repressed civic space
They observed a one-minute silence, holding candles, to mourn the death of the 8-year-old rape victim in Magura
As part of a nationwide program, election officials and employees in Barishal staged a human chain and sit-in protest against the plan to transfer National Identification Card (NID) services from the Election Commission to a new statutory body
The declaration of the daily 'JaiJai Din' has been revoked following an application by its former editor Shafik Rehman, sparking protests from the newspaper's current management and journalists
Two Chhatra Federation leaders accused over anti-rape protest clash claim they were not even present there
