Human rights
Human rightsGirls excluded from returning to secondary school in Afghanistan
Girls were excluded from returning to secondary school in Afghanistan on Saturday, after the country's new Taliban rulers ordered only boys and male teachers back to the classroom
Bangladesh's transgender entrepreneurs create safe work spaces
The conservative Muslim-majority country's roughly 1.5 million transgender people have long faced discrimination and violence.
Virtual dialogue
'Taliban issue calls for cautious decision'
Bangladesh must ensure its own interests while taking the geopolitical situation into consideration, observed experts regarding recognition of the Taliban government and furthering relations
Recruitment process at NHRC has to be transparent
The indifference of the National Human Rights Commission is not only frustrating but also worrying when there are instances of human rights violation one after another
Virtual discussion
NHRC’s efficacy under question
Speakers at a discussion meeting raised questions about the efficacy of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC).
10 years of rights commission
NHRC avoids talking about ‘gunfights’, enforced disappearance
The NHRC has confirmed that none of its panel lawyers are giving assistance to victims of extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances
Afghanistan
Taliban order university women to wear face-covering niqab
The Taliban have ordered that the women attending private Afghan universities must wear an abaya robe and niqab covering most of the face and classes must be segregated by sex -- or at least divided ...
US Congress caucus virtual meeting
‘Culture of impunity encourages enforced disappearance’
The HRW official said when there are so many allegations raised against RAB, impunity encourages the enforced disappearance
International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances
‘We will wait until he comes back’
United Nation’s Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearance has sent names of 34 victims of disappearance and wanted information about them
Myanmar's genocide bleached as 'ethnic cleansing'
US and UK usurp Rohingya voices while misnaming Myanmar's genocide as “ethnic cleansing”, Milošević's euphemism used for genocide denial, writes Maung Zarni
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