The government will recruit 6,000 new social workers, bringing the workforce from 3,000 to 9,000.
The committee also put emphasis on the responsibilities of the government to protect the families of the victims of enforced disappearance, rights activists and civic bodies from any threats
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has offered the government of Bangladesh its assistance in forming an independent system for investigating the allegations ...
Modern slavery is present in basically every country in the world, with more than half of cases of forced labour and a quarter of forced marriages in upper-middle income or high-income countries
But there is no scope to be complacent over this success. We must remember that the country is faring well overall. As many as 128 countries are ahead of Bangladesh
Home minister Asaduzzaman Kamal has said that the UN Working Group on Enforced Disappearances had handed over to the government a list of 76 persons who have been victims of enforced disappearances ...
Her defenders praised her attacks on systemic racism and commitment to new environmental rights
The proposal to set up any independent and specialised mechanism to investigate the allegations of enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings is not logical, remarked state minister for ...
United Nations high commissioner for human rights office has said some Bangladeshi media has spread misinformation on the high commissioner Michelle Bachelet’s final press briefing at Switzerland’s ...
A total of 66 families joined a human chain in front of the national museum on Tuesday morning. They have been waiting for the return of their dear ones who remain missing for years. 'Mayer Dak' ...
The Bangladesh Civic Space Network, a coalition of 23 community-based organisations led by youth, women, and transgender in eight divisions of the country
Upon returning five victims of enforced disappearance said they were picked up by people who identified them as law enforcement agency members
Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK) urged the government to trace the victims of enforced disappearances and return them to their families
Human rights activists have alleged they have currently been working in an environment of fear, but they had no fear for working over the human rights violation in the past
Many could not tolerate the unprecedented development of the country and so, they are spreading anti-state propaganda and hatred, said Hasan Mahmud
