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
Severe acute malnutrition in the Rohingya refugee camps has surged by 27 percent in February this year compared to the same period last year, pushing more children into life-threatening hunger, Unicef said in a statement yesterday.
International NGOs operating in Bangladesh, including ActionAid, Oxfam, Plan International, and Save the Children, have expressed serious concern over the recent surge in incidents of rape, sexual harassment, and violence against women, girls, and children across the country.
The protesters, claiming themselves to be members of 'progressive society', called for a mass procession
At least 305 Bangladeshis were killed and 282 more injured along the Bangladesh-India border by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) personnel in the last 10 years, according to the Human Rights Support Society (HRSS).
In a statement issued yesterday, Article 19 said Bangladesh’s media landscape faces significant challenges
At 11:00am, teachers, students, and staff gathered at the university’s Siddheshwari campus in Dhaka, organising a rally and demonstration at the Bot Tola area
Under the banner of the "Anti-Rape Platform," they began a protest rally at 7:30pm this evening
The demonstration, which began after midnight, was particularly focused on seeking the maximum punishment for the rapists of an eight-year-old child in Magura
In Bangladesh, women remain largely excluded from financial services, and this disparity is a major barrier to their full participation in the country’s economic development
'Withdraw all pending criminal cases lodged against journalists, lawyers, trade unionists, civil society activists and other human rights defenders in respect to the conduct protected by the international human rights law, including freedoms of expression and of peaceful assembly,' says the UN agency
