Human Rights
Make sure no innocent harassed
Stressing the importance of upholding human rights in enforcing laws, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked the Rab members to be careful so that people are not unnecessarily harassed while...
Top military men responsible for human rights abuse in Myanmar: US
Mentioning that the findings of a new report indicate widespread human rights abuses by the Myanmar military and its other security forces, the United States says it held high-level military...
BNP for attention of int’l community on rights violations in Bangladesh
BNP presents statistics of gross violation of human rights in Bangladesh to the diplomats of different nations and urges them to take note of this issue in their effort to boost democratic...
A crucial stocktaking
Today, Bangladesh's human rights situation will be reviewed at the United Nations' Human Rights Council in Geneva, under the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) mechanism. The UN Human Rights...
It's far from acceptable
The overall human rights condition of the country's indigenous people remained far from acceptable in the year 2017 and little effort
Rohingya persecution, a consequence of hate: Amnesty
“The horrific military campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya people in Myanmar” is the consequence of “a society encouraged to hate, scapegoat and fear minorities,” Amnesty...
Govt failing to address rights abuses
Bangladesh authorities failed to respond to repeated and serious allegations of secret detentions, enforced disappearances, and extrajudicial killings, denying the abuses instead of holding...
Protect human rights of all
Much progress has been made towards economic development in the last year but sadly the same cannot be said about the state of human rights in the country.
A sense of fear prevails
December 10, 2017 marked the 70th anniversary of the adoption of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).
UN calls world to stand up for ensuring human rights
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres urges people and leaders everywhere to stand up for all human rights - civil, political, economic, social and cultural -- and for the values that underpin...
Int'l Human Rights Day Today: Crimes grow in state's silence
KM Shamim Akhter was forced into a microbus near his Paltan home on the morning of September 29, 2011 by five to six armed men claiming to be members of a law enforcement agency. ...