Bangladesh human rights situation

Probe rights abuses, protect civil rights

United Nations member states yesterday urged Bangladesh to investigate rights violations by law enforcers, protect civil rights and ensure free and fair trials.

What’s the outcome of Donald Lu’s visit?

Democracy, election, labour and human rights issues among topics discussed

Too few shelters for domestic violence victims

Why has the state failed to provide a safe space for them?

One Year of US Sanctions: Denial and Defiance

The government has not only curtailed freedom of expression and assembly, but it has also used state institutions to silence its critics and political opponents in a brutal manner.

Mizanur’s ordeal was unacknowledged detention and torture

Well-known civic rights activist Mizanur Rahman’s narration of his harrowing experience of being picked up by police and tortured under custody, published in this newspaper’s online version on June 15, gives us some disturbing snapshots of the unlawful actions of our law enforcement agencies.

‘275 victims of extra-judicial killings and custodial deaths, 427 women raped in 6 months’

The overall human rights situation in Bangladesh remained at an alarming level in the first six months of 2018 due to a sharp rise in cases of extra-judicial killings and custodial deaths, and a high number of cases of rapes and sexual assault of women across the country, human rights organisation Ain O Salish Kendra (ASK) says in its report.

November 14, 2023
November 14, 2023

Probe rights abuses, protect civil rights

United Nations member states yesterday urged Bangladesh to investigate rights violations by law enforcers, protect civil rights and ensure free and fair trials.

January 17, 2023
January 17, 2023

What’s the outcome of Donald Lu’s visit?

Democracy, election, labour and human rights issues among topics discussed

December 11, 2022
December 11, 2022

Too few shelters for domestic violence victims

Why has the state failed to provide a safe space for them?

December 10, 2022
December 10, 2022

One Year of US Sanctions: Denial and Defiance

The government has not only curtailed freedom of expression and assembly, but it has also used state institutions to silence its critics and political opponents in a brutal manner.

June 21, 2022
June 21, 2022

Mizanur’s ordeal was unacknowledged detention and torture

Well-known civic rights activist Mizanur Rahman’s narration of his harrowing experience of being picked up by police and tortured under custody, published in this newspaper’s online version on June 15, gives us some disturbing snapshots of the unlawful actions of our law enforcement agencies.

June 30, 2018
June 30, 2018

‘275 victims of extra-judicial killings and custodial deaths, 427 women raped in 6 months’

The overall human rights situation in Bangladesh remained at an alarming level in the first six months of 2018 due to a sharp rise in cases of extra-judicial killings and custodial deaths, and a high number of cases of rapes and sexual assault of women across the country, human rights organisation Ain O Salish Kendra (ASK) says in its report.

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